> Which absolutes exactly are you talking about? :) Nothing absolute in the "almost certainly" statement, in my opinion.
heh, very true. I was just having some fun and wanted to work zombie-apocalypse into my reply somewhere :)
> What do you mean by "is known"?
NPR covered this on science friday I think 2 or 3 weeks ago with folks close to the project (not from the project, but familiar with it) and all these same questions about how this will spread in the wild, what could go wrong and if it had been tested in any large-scale deployments all seemed to be questions that were up-in-the-air.
There wasn't any concrete comments like: "The team did a test deployment in a quarantined marsh and published the results".
I had the impression from that show (and this story) that the path from conception to design to deployment was really fast.
I am not a geneticist though. It is very possible that this type of work is not something to lose sleep over and I have too many Hollywood premises running through my head.
heh, very true. I was just having some fun and wanted to work zombie-apocalypse into my reply somewhere :)
> What do you mean by "is known"?
NPR covered this on science friday I think 2 or 3 weeks ago with folks close to the project (not from the project, but familiar with it) and all these same questions about how this will spread in the wild, what could go wrong and if it had been tested in any large-scale deployments all seemed to be questions that were up-in-the-air.
There wasn't any concrete comments like: "The team did a test deployment in a quarantined marsh and published the results".
I had the impression from that show (and this story) that the path from conception to design to deployment was really fast.
I am not a geneticist though. It is very possible that this type of work is not something to lose sleep over and I have too many Hollywood premises running through my head.