If you could conduct a daring science experiment,what would it be on?

[USS Triumphant]

An android woman..... Hmmmmmm no pass I think real once are nicer

Our transhumanist future will not look back kindly on your post here.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

“Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks -- those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

“Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks -- those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

Yes well he was rather nutty... But did write interesting stuff.

 

[Spock_the_Vulcan]

The transporters like the ones in the Star Trek Universe

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

The transporters like the ones in the Star Trek Universe

and would you be brave enough to try it?

 

[USS Triumphant]

and would you be brave enough to try it?

Sure. On someone else.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Sure. On someone else.

Ask the President if he would like to try it.

 

[ohdeve.]

I would die if there was any chance I could be revived after brain death.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I would die if there was any chance I could be revived after brain death.

Why?

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Realistically, probably cancer research. Morals and all.

Nerdy self-indulgence wise, I'd try to invent cylons.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Realistically, probably cancer research. Morals and all.

Nerdy self-indulgence wise, I'd try to invent cylons.

Cylons would be a bad idea, not unless you install some kind of safeties.

Cancer research is good. Maybe try that suggestion they made on Voyager of targeting the DNA sequence itself that triggers cancer. I think that's what the episode said.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

I would die if there was any chance I could be revived after brain death.

Organic-based nanotechnology will likely make that possible.

Cylons would be a bad idea, not unless you install some kind of safeties.

Cancer research is good. Maybe try that suggestion they made on Voyager of targeting the DNA sequence itself that triggers cancer. I think that's what the episode said.

CRISPR/Cas9

As of 2016 CRISPR had been studied in animal models and cancer cell lines, to learn if can be used to repair or thwart mutated genes that cause cancer.

The first clinical trial involving CRISPR started in 2016. It involved removing immune cells from people with lung cancer, using CRISPR to edit out the gene expressed PD-1, then administrating the altered cells back to the same person. 20 other trials were under way or nearly ready, mostly in China, as of 2017.

In 2016 the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a clinical trial in which CRISPR would be used to alter T cells extracted from people with different kinds of cancer and then administer those engineered T cells back to the same people.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

CRISPR/Cas9

I wonder if they predicted that in Voyager when they had that episode where cancer being cured was mentioned.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

I wonder if they predicted that in Voyager when they had that episode where cancer being cured was mentioned.

Perhaps the writers had read "Nano!" by Ed Regis or "Engines of Creation" by Eric Drexler.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Perhaps the writers had read "Nano!" by Ed Regis or "Engines of Creation" by Eric Drexler.

Who knows? Did those books cover CRISPR?

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Who knows? Did those books cover CRISPR?

No, but they suggested that nanotech would have many medical applications and would potentially make humans immortal (likely only those who can afford the treatments). Nor did Voyager name CRISPR explicitly.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Daring experiments hey? Can we play with the Sun?

 

[2takesfrakes]

I can think of quite a few experiments, but beginning the process of terra-forming Mars would rank amongst my favourites and most "do-able." It may take generations, but it's high time Humanity started staking its claim on the Solar System.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

if we had the tech I'd go back in time 100 years start terraforming Mars and come back to the present to see if and what the changes were.