uservoid1@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Because of this the reaction will not work outside of carefully controlled laboratory conditions, ruling out apocalyptic scenarios where the process runs away and destroys all available DNA by building versions of itself with it.
This isn’t something that’s taking over the world just yet
So there’s always that kind of uncertainty; you think you can build safeguards in, but they’re not necessarily a guarantee that it will be safe
Very reassuring, nothing to worry about
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
You could also have a copycat funded by terrorists or whatever. Just because they build safeguards doesn’t mean the next person will. Fun.
ThoGot@lemm.ee 11 months ago
It’s not that they built safeguards but probably more that replication is finicky and you need these specific conditions for it to work at all
(but I don’t have access to the cited paper)