X-Message-Number: 12762
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 12:41:31 -0500 (EST)
From: Charles Platt <>
Subject: Re: CryoNet #12758

On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, CryoNet wrote:

> Follow the blueprint!  The Human Genome Project is projected to be done well
> within two years.  Once you have a blueprint you need only make simple
> devices to follow them. 

Oh yeah right. Let me give you a billion or so instructions for synthesis
of protein molecules that can be hugely complex, and interact with each
other in ways that can be hard to predict, and we'll see how many
lifetimes you require to make "simple devices"  which will follow this
"blueprint" with ZERO tolerance for unexpected consequences. 

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