you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]ah2020 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

Poking around on this linked site. Are there any scientists reading who can comment on whether this is nonsense or in some way credible? https://www.planet-today.com/2021/03/medical-shocker-scientists-at-sloan.html#gsc.tab=0

[–]bobbobbybob 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

mRNA can do anything. The equivalent would be saying: "SHOCKER! COMPUTER PROGRAMS CAN MAKE YOUR COMPUTER DO STUFF"

[–]Tom_Bombadil 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

mRNA can do anything.

This is a scary statement from the guy working on AI, and putting chips in people's brains.

[–]DirewolfGhost 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

This is a rational statement from that guy, given his fields of expertise, yes.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

He's in the club. None of them will take the jab.

[–]bobbobbybob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Elon didn't say that. i did. I'm sure Elon understands the situation very well. That's why he is saying sane things about it.

But mRNA is basically cellular code. You write up a recipe, translate it into mmRNA (modified messenger, designed to defeat cellular defense against foreign code intrusion) and then distribute. YOu can make cells make anything you want. You can add in reverse transcriptase code, maybe hiden in the codon, and have those new functions written to the hard drive (DNA) in the cell nucleus. It really is biohacking .

If you wanted to make people express glowing patterns in their skin, you could program that into mmRNA and add it to vaccines, and people would start expressing, say, luciferin. whatever you want.

With 6 billion people, a small % (a few million, say), may die due to unforseen or un cared about incompatibilities with messily evolved H-OS (human operating System) but those lines would soon die out and you'd be left with a more predictable base load of machines, sorry, people, to work with.

[–]ah2020 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ah, thanks!

[–]GaiusHelenMohiam 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The whole article is nonsense. mRNA is just how your chromosomes tell your ribosomes to make protein.

[–]ah2020 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks!