Rene Gonzalez
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Lying in Wait [re-sub]
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Sound needs a medium on which to travel; perhaps this quirky little detail about space served a purpose. Human progress throughout history has often been met by those who chastise us for “playing god” for attempting to wield the laws of nature. In 1996 we received this “noble badge” when we began to dip our tones into cloning. In 2003 we decided the title suited us and upped the ante by attempting to bring the Pyrenean Ibex back from extinction by inserting its DNA into a surrogate mother. In 2021 in an attempt to rid the world of Malaria, we bioengineered mosquitoes at the celular level in order to make them incapable not only of contracting the disease but of passing it genetically to their offspring, essentially culling out the issue in a generation or two. As our scientific progress grew, so too did the chants and warning about “playing god” with nature. But it seems there was one boundary we were never meant to cross; a law of nature which assured the very safety of all life in the universe - and this law stated that sound cannot travel through the vacuum of space….
By Rene Gonzalez3 years ago in Fiction
