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Synthetic Biology

Synthetic biology technology is a social/environmental/biological experiment said to one day save the world…or destroy it. Although a formal definition of the science that goes into it is yet to be defined, it has something to do with writing DNA sequences using computer code and somehow printing it out for insertion into a hollowed-out host cell like E. coli—which will then self-replicate for mass production. And like rDNA technology, it is presented as a way of solving problems of capital like “oil shortages” and for making useful products like the bio-medicines that will one day extend our lives at a price. Others, however, think that synthetic biology is an attempt to “play God” and argue that creating and releasing new life forms may trigger unpredictable disasters since nature itself is unpredictable—and although these technologies have built-in “suicide genes,” they remain subject to evolution.
Features that highlight biotechnology/synthetic biology: Jurassic Park, I Am Legend, South Park's Dr. Alphonse Mephesto, Resident Evil, Rise of the Planet of the Apes....
by alfonsooooo86 January 30, 2012
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synthetic love

our synthetic love is all we have left
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synthetic pan flute

The sound of a pan flute being played, but generated solely by synthesizer hardware or computer software synthesis.

No real pan flutes are folded, spindled, or mutilated when synthetic pan flutes are employed.
Hey Dan, you've got to download the Commodore Amiga demo, "Hardwired" by the Amiga demo groups Crionics and the Silents! Its zax has a synthetic pan flute you've just GOT to hear!!!
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synthetic air raid siren

The sound of an air raid siren, produced solely by synthesizer hardware or computer software synthesis.

No real air raid sirens are dented with a hammer, mutilated, or even destroyed when synthetic air raid sirens are deployed
Timmy, you've just got to "lissen" to the zax from the Commodore Amiga demo, "Massive" by the Commodore Amiga computer demo group Skarla! You can hear synthetic air raid sirens at the very beginning!
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synthetic intelligence

The constructivist foundation of synthetic intelligence implies that attribute-oriented programming is the only pathway to generalized artificial intelligence.
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Synthetic Spliff

Having a bong hit and then a cigarette to make it feel like you are having a spliff or joint
John: "we are running a bit low on weed, man. Why don't you have a synthetic spliff
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Synthetic Marxism

A specificity of synthetic materialism in which the structure of an organization serves as the design of a blockchain.
Synthetic Marxism collapses the workers' collective into a blockchain-authenticated reciprocity model.
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