One of those shake your head moments

I just read an online article about creating new life. Scientists around the world are working on ways to create synthetic living cells. They seem to be throwing the building blocks of life together and letting nature take over. I'm sure it's all more controlled, but that's how it sounded in the article.

There's a great quote at the end of the article where a prominent scientist in this field is talking about the possibility of some new form of life running amok and creating chaos. The scientist says, “When these things are created, they’re going to be so weak, it’ll be a huge achievement if you can keep them alive for an hour in the lab. But them getting out and taking over, never in our imagination could this happen.”

I was immediately reminded of Jeff Goldblum's character in Jurassic Park who constantly reminds the dumber, more God-complex characters that "life finds a way." It just seems to me that if you're going to create rogue artifical life forms you better expect the unexpected. Man, I can just see a Michael Crighton novel about this in the next few years. Freaky.