[Ben Lahnger]

I was reading about how one of the synthetic self-replicating organisms they're trying to create is a little "bacteria-like" being that would eat oil slicks in the ocean and then die out after a limited life cycle. Sounds pretty sensible to me.

Oh, and I take issue with the statement "Just look how we've messed everything up with everything else we've made" How have artificial hearts harmed the world? The Polio vaccine? Yo-yo's? Broadway plays? Poetry? Windmills? Table Tennis? Beer? And I could go on and on and on ...

You my friend, need to not let the very real negative things that man has done obscure your vision of the good things man has done ... and the wondrous.

Here's a completely different science fact to make you happy. When the Apollo missions were landing on the moon, they left a mirror on the surface. They now can measure the distance between the Earth and the Moon to a degree of accuracy they could not achieve before ... by bouncing a light off of that mirror and measuring how long it takes to come back to Earth. And that is how we now know that the Moon is moving 1.5 inches away from the Earth each year!