On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Andrew Berg wrote: > Florin Iucha wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 06:45:33PM -0500, Mike Miller wrote: > >>> These things do make you wonder what will be possible someday. >> >> We'll build carbon-based entities that can replicate themselves when >> provided with energy and some amino-acids. > > We already have that. It's called sex. I made one of those carbon-based life forms with a lot of help from my wife. She did most of the work. It's an interesting little animal -- fairly noisy and it breaks things, lots of things, but it has a great smile. Mike