May I gate crash the NQS party to insert a quick reference to mundane science?
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Brilliance

Re part of the earlier discussion, there's some interesting info about synthetic biology here:

http://royalsociety.org/landing.asp?id=1230

"Synthetic biology is an emerging area of research that can broadly be described as the design and construction of novel artificial biological pathways, organisms or devices, or the redesign of existing natural biological systems..."

"Time is what prevents everything from happening at once" - John Wheeler