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Comment How to guarantee it's not real (or people) (Score 1) 820

I call shenanigans on the Vegetarian Society. Given that DNA sequencing is getting cheaper and cheaper, by the time this gets to market, it will be very simple to test this. Just sequence DNA from the 'meat'. Before growing the muscle cells in a dish you could just take out a lot of genes that aren't required to grow muscle, but *are* required to grow a pig - like genes specific to neurons, other organs, etc. That will not affect the meat, and then you can be guaranteed that it's not from a whole pig. The same of course applies to the Soylent Green argument - if you get (almost entirely) human DNA then you're eating grandma and not fake pig.
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Jetman Attempts Intercontinental Flight 140

Last year we ran the story of Yves Rossy and his DIY jetwings. Yves spent $190,000 and countless hours building a set of jet-powered wings which he used to cross the English Channel. Rossy's next goal is to cross the Strait of Gibraltar, from Tangier in Morocco and Tarifa on the southwestern tip of Spain. From the article: "Using a four-cylinder jet pack and carbon fibre wings spanning over 8ft, he will jump out of a plane at 6,500 ft and cruise at 130 mph until he reaches the Spanish coast, when he will parachute to earth." Update 18:57 GMT: mytrip writes: "Yves Rossy took off from Tangiers but five minutes into an expected 15-minute flight he was obliged to ditch into the wind-swept waters."

Comment Re:There is no chip. (Score 1) 227

Though your suggestion is obviously tongue in cheek, I just thought it might be good to point out that there are pretty intractable problems with using DNA as a storage medium. It is VERY SLOW to copy (it takes several hours for human cells w/ ~3 billion letters to divide) and is prone to errors during copying.

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