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electric_blue68

(14,818 posts)
Tue Nov 30, 2021, 07:35 PM Nov 2021

Xenobots - what Possiblly could go wrong?! 🙄

Xenobots, named after the African clawed frog, are synthetic lifeforms that are designed by computers to perform some desired function and built by combining together different biological tissues.
Wikipedia


So now it appears they can reproduce, too. 🙄😐😑

They used stem cells scraped from a frog.

One of the scientists said - (paraphrase)
It's not a new life form. It's a Robot.
A robot is something that humans tell it to what to do, and it does it.


Okaaaaaay....
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Xenobots - what Possiblly could go wrong?! 🙄 (Original Post) electric_blue68 Nov 2021 OP
Great... this tears it. FalloutShelter Nov 2021 #1
I think we've been living in one for a bit, anyway, but... electric_blue68 Nov 2021 #2

electric_blue68

(14,818 posts)
2. I think we've been living in one for a bit, anyway, but...
Tue Nov 30, 2021, 08:50 PM
Nov 2021

this kicks it up a few notches! 🍿

😮😮😮

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