Scientists discover first nitrogen fixing organelle

Re:Scientists discover first nitrogen fixing organelle by mikewarot on Sunday April 21, 2024 @04:30AM (#40104059)

  "The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function."
  
  Albert Allen Bartlett

If there is even a 0.001% chance of an organism with this artificially tacked on to it getting in to the wild, the experiment is not worth anything to be potentially learned from it.

It could cause our starvation well before we could respond effectively.

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Re:Scientists discover first nitrogen fixing organelle by ctrw on Sunday April 21, 2024 @04:32AM (#40104071)

If the exponent is so small that it's not reached 1 in 100,000,000 years we're safe until humanity goes extinct.

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Re:Scientists discover first nitrogen fixing organelle by adrianN on Sunday April 21, 2024 @07:04AM (#40104692)

You're an optimist.

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Re:Scientists discover first nitrogen fixing organelle by DennisP on Sunday April 21, 2024 @11:57AM (#40106743)

I know what you mean but "we're safe until we go extinct" doesn't give me warm fuzzies :)

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