Lime green umbrellas ho!
May. 20th, 2005 09:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chaletianSomeone just walked past my office window brandishing a lime green umbrella. I know some people who would be jealous. Oh yes.
Anyway, I'm faintly disturbed by what was on the news last night. And now I can't really remember what it was, except that it was something to do with stem cell research. See, the thing is, it's generally accepted that cloning is grr bad and unethical etc etc etc and no-one's allowed to do it for humans, but scientists in Korea, I think, have made a way of creating stem cells that can be used to be specific genetic matches for people. This is fine and dandy as a way of replacing kidneys or what have you, but there's just that somewhat sinking realisation that science isn't just going to hit a cut off point and say "OK, that's our lot, anything else would be weird and belong in a sci-fi movie, so we're going to stop all this now". Let's face it: that's never going to happen. Once again I am reminded of that class line from Jurassic Park: they were so busy figuring out whether they could that they forgot to think about whether they should. Hmm. Deep thoughts for all.
And then at about two o'clock this morning, when I was still wide awake, I ended up watching a v. bizarre film (as yet unidentified) with about a million people in it (starting with Sam Neill, Helena Bonham-Carter, Martin Clunes, Kristin Scott-Thomas and the girl who was whatshername in Four Weddings) that was completely insane and yet reminded me irresistably of Lust Over Pendle. Odd.
Anyway, I'm faintly disturbed by what was on the news last night. And now I can't really remember what it was, except that it was something to do with stem cell research. See, the thing is, it's generally accepted that cloning is grr bad and unethical etc etc etc and no-one's allowed to do it for humans, but scientists in Korea, I think, have made a way of creating stem cells that can be used to be specific genetic matches for people. This is fine and dandy as a way of replacing kidneys or what have you, but there's just that somewhat sinking realisation that science isn't just going to hit a cut off point and say "OK, that's our lot, anything else would be weird and belong in a sci-fi movie, so we're going to stop all this now". Let's face it: that's never going to happen. Once again I am reminded of that class line from Jurassic Park: they were so busy figuring out whether they could that they forgot to think about whether they should. Hmm. Deep thoughts for all.
And then at about two o'clock this morning, when I was still wide awake, I ended up watching a v. bizarre film (as yet unidentified) with about a million people in it (starting with Sam Neill, Helena Bonham-Carter, Martin Clunes, Kristin Scott-Thomas and the girl who was whatshername in Four Weddings) that was completely insane and yet reminded me irresistably of Lust Over Pendle. Odd.
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Date: 2005-05-20 01:03 pm (UTC)