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This has been going on for 100m years. I doubt we are in any urgent danger.

• 2four2 2y ago
  So have mass extinction events.
• mikewarot 2y ago
  "The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." Albert Allen Bartlett If there is even a 0.001% chance of an organism with this artificially tacked on to it getting in to the wild, the experiment is not worth anything to be potentially learned from it. It could cause our starvation well before we could respond effectively.
  • ctrw 2y ago
    If the exponent is so small that it's not reached 1 in 100,000,000 years we're safe until humanity goes extinct.
    • adrianN 2y ago
      You're an optimist.
    • DennisP 2y ago
      I know what you mean but "we're safe until we go extinct" doesn't give me warm fuzzies :)