Friday, February 22, 2008

Philospher's DNA


Huel is on..out on the farm with horse drawn...lawnmowers...looks like haymaking....yes....before was Friends...

I need a description of the Philosopher's Stone I can work with here...brb....well...wiki's is okay...

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The philosopher's stone (Latin: lapis philosophorum; Greek: chrysopoeia) is a legendary substance, supposedly capable of turning inexpensive metals into gold; it was also sometimes believed to be a means of making people younger, if not making them immortal. For a long time it was the most sought after goal in Western alchemy.
In the view of spiritual alchemy, making the philosopher's stone would bring enlightenment upon the maker and conclude the Great Work.

from wikipedia

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lemesee who else has gone where I'm going with this...brb...well...sheesh..I guess someone has taken up where I was going...and then some!!

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ScienceDaily (Feb. 4, 2008) — DNA is the blueprint of all life, giving instruction and function to organisms ranging from simple one-celled bacteria to complex human beings. Now Northwestern University researchers report they have used DNA as the blueprint, contractor and construction worker to build a three-dimensional structure out of gold, a lifeless material.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080130130652.htm

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What I was thinking is that the new genetic engineers are using DNA like a Philosopher's Stone....I think of the Stone as the maker of all things...water is a universal solvent...DNA is like the universal blueprint maker for living things...well...there's a question if it is just a blueprint that was made!...or somehow make's itself...

brb..I'm losing control of a thought worse than Ovid!!...

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Synthetic DNA on the Brink of Yielding New Life Forms
By Rick WeissWashington Post Staff Writer Monday, December 17, 2007; Page A01

"Most cells go about life like we do, with the intention to make more of themselves after eating," said John Pierce, a vice president at DuPont in Wilmington, Del., a leader in the field. "But what we want them to do is make stuff we want."

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I suspect if someone explained DNA to a medieval alchemist..or even Sir Izaak!...they'd say, "OH!...the Philosopher's Stone...that's what we've been looking for..."

Needless to say, a gold rush is on for engineered DNA...literally even!...and the rapaciousness of the 49'rs tearing through the Sierra foothills...will seem quaint.

sigh

and needless to say if Olympic athletes become "engineered"...steroids will seem quaint...and the Games?...an improbable menagerie!...which brings the Island of Dr. Moreau to mind...didn't know HG Wells wrote that...and I cant find the fifties era movie....brb...

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The winged globe, says H.G. Wells, is " to become the symbol of the New World Order when it overtly rules the world."

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that from a Christian site warning about things...an apocolytic Christian site might be better said..such sites could be said to be "ekphrasis" sites too...like Tree in the Door...insomuch as they find things in the media to work off of...

But Well's was a conspiracist....and his works were implementations of his pursuit..though so entertaining readers could care less!..the apocolyptic Christian object to Harry Potter and the occult magic things..and the off shoots...but they are entertaining!...and movie goers and book readers could care less if some conspiracy is afoot...but lemesee about winged globes...

brb

Well...that winged globe supposed quote of Wells has no reference...and from sites that have picked it up...it seems to be made up...

Charlie Rose with panel of Oscar movie critics...

Here's an exact connect of the thinking I'm working on...

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In the sections that follow, the authors' comments are evaluated in relation to the two afore-mentioned goals: identifying risk factors in populations as part of the broad mission of public health and developing applications for individual patients in clinical settings. Buchanan et al.1 state that our search for genetic causes of complex diseases is a ‘vain quest for the philosopher's stone’, and our time would be better spent promoting changes in diet and physical activity.

Commentary: The Human Genome: philosopher's stone or magic wand? Robert C Millikan

http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/35/3/578

This could go on and on as all manner of authors pick up the metaphor of the Philosopher's Stone...for all manner of fearful things!
Pic is Van Gogh..Harvest...
When the genetic mutations begin to annoy the farmers...they'll rise up same as the farmers hereabouts did to stop the hydraulic mining....
Van Gogh could really paint!..that pic is a marvel!...

DavidDavid
Tree in the Door

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