Looks like British tax dollars hard at work...

We can't do a DNA test on a zygote because the DNA is destroyed when tested, so we wait until it has divided and there are 16 cells, and then do a DNA test on one of them. The problem then is that CRISPR-Cas9 wasn't all that accurate, so trying to gene edit 15 cells results in an embryo that is a chimera, with not all cells being the same. Recent innovations means CRISPR-Cas9-HF1 is 99.9% accurate, but that still means 0.1% of attempted changes will fail to be changed successfully. One in one thousand doesn't sound like a lot but that means that one in 67 embryos to be single-gene edited will be a chimera, which could result in autoimmune issues depending on the target gene.

And this is why we needed Operation Dark Storm to blacken the sky when the Machines tried to take over. "We don't know who struck first, us or them, but we know that it was us that scorched the sky. At the time, they were dependent on solar power and it was believed that they would be unable to survive without an energy source as abundant as the sun." - Morpheus

Most played PC games list (from most to least): Rome: Total War (most number of hours played by far) Master of Orion 2 (love this game to bits, but a pity that you can't terraform toxic planets) Deus Ex 1 (perhaps my most favourite game, replayed it from start to finish dozens of times) Skyrim (Still haven't finished it; I never get around to finishing the main quest line before another game comes along to steal my attention away) Fallout 3 (and New Vegas) Starcraft 1 (favourite LAN game of old) Freelancer (favourite space shooter of all time, EVE doesn't even compare to this game IMHO) Mass Effect 1, 2 & 3 (about equal amounts of time on each, #3's ending was a let down) Hitman (loved them all, Blood Money is probably my favourite) Counter-Strike (second favourite LAN game, still play Counter-Strike: Source from time to time) Knights of the Old Republic 1 & 2 (KOTOR) (Force Choking and Force Pushing enemies off cliffs after a hard day at work is a great stress reliever) Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 1 & 2 (see comment above, should be played on PS3, PC version is a bad port) Star Control 2 (love the story line, was saddened by how bad Star Control 3 was) Civilization 2 (used to play as a LAN game, almost always played as the Germans, the Panzer tank was just too much fun to Blitzkrieg the enemy with) Rome 2: Total War (playing it now, hopefully they will get all the bugs out some day soon, finished as the Romans and as the Spartans)

The MAO-A gene is also known as the 'Warrior Gene' because people with it tend to be more aggressive than people without it. Happiness and the lack of aggression would logically be correlated.

India is a country that receives billions of dollars per year from countries around the world to feed its people and yet the Indian government thinks they can find US$75 million to send a probe to Mars?!

Ah, but it does work! Ever heard of non-extradition countries? There are quite a few of them:

Afghanistan, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Armenia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brunei, Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, the Central African Republic, Chad, China, Comoros, Congo (Kinshasa), Congo (Brazzaville), Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Libya, Macedonia, Madagascar, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Micronesia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Niger, Oman, Qatar, Russia, Rwanda, Samoa, São Tomé & Príncipe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Slovenia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican, and Vietnam. Also note that Taiwan is one for now but the US is currently talking to them about it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition_law_in_the_United_States#Countries_with_diplomatic_relations_but_no_extradition_treaty

He fails to explain how many jobs will be created by new technology in the next 18 years. Technological Unemployment is one of the most powerful forces in market economics, but when those people become unemployed they become available in new areas using technology not yet created in the present time period. Take the Agricultural Revolution, it ended with mass unemployment due to the advent of John Deere's steel plough, but those unemployed masses moved into the cities and started the Industrial Revolution, a nett movement of 94% of the working population from 1800 until 1995 (Rifkin, The End Of Work, 1995). Note that this figure doesn't factor in the increasing participation of women in the work force.

Australia is full of animals and insects bred to kill anything else that they come across. Even the cute looking Koala is extremely vicious in the wild, their claws and teeth are razor sharp for climbing trees and eating leaves. Try New Zealand, there isn't much that can kill you, let alone bite you, as the European settlers, Maori and intentionally released European species of animals have killed off nearly everything remotely dangerous.

Those who have the ability to travel will do so if the place is better than where they are now. The world once only allowed in people who could get there by themselves, and had something to offer the host country. Now any man and his dog can immigrate and countries are struggling to find legal reasons to say no to them because of human rights legislation set up after WW2 by the United Nations. 95% of all refugees never get a job in their host country which results in a 100% drain on social services, infrastructure, utilities, etc. because even the 5% who do work use more tax money than they pay. This assertion was backed up by a recent British study that did the calculations. Supreme Justice Asher Grunis of the Israeli Supreme Court recently ruled that "Human rights do not prescribe national suicide," and with these few words may well see the western world turning against the flood of illegal immigrants, asylum seekers, and assorted refugees into First World countries from the Third World.