Demand in Australia

[Nomvalt]

yeah, great movie. i found it quite entertaining...
lol, discrimination down to a science, sorta sad though

[Fyrefly]

genetic engineering

I want this job!.. in a few years we'll be doing designer babies and genetic altering of humans etc. yeah? It'll be big demand then I reckon.

Thats an awful thing to do.

bs, its awesome lol

Right on it'll be awesome .
Except for discrimination not based on race, but the purity of their genome and how much better someone is because they were altered haha.. ..oh shit ?

lol has anyone seen Gattaca?

One of my "texts" in year 11... I've seen it enough to last the rest of my life.

[QuantumJG]

genetic engineering

I want this job!.. in a few years we'll be doing designer babies and genetic altering of humans etc. yeah? It'll be big demand then I reckon.

Thats an awful thing to do.

bs, its awesome lol

Right on it'll be awesome .
Except for discrimination not based on race, but the purity of their genome and how much better someone is because they were altered haha.. ..oh shit ?

lol has anyone seen Gattaca?

I saw Gattaca in year 10 genetics and year 10 English. The movie tries to go through the moral dilemma of Eugenics.

If you extrapolated the data to a couple thousand years in the future, it could produce two species of human (sort of like the time machine). You would have rich people progressing into perfect humans, whilst the poorer humans could be shoved aside and progress into something like a morlock.

I wonder what it is like in the very far away future.

[minilunchbox]

genetic engineering

I want this job!.. in a few years we'll be doing designer babies and genetic altering of humans etc. yeah? It'll be big demand then I reckon.

Thats an awful thing to do.

bs, its awesome lol

Right on it'll be awesome .
Except for discrimination not based on race, but the purity of their genome and how much better someone is because they were altered haha.. ..oh shit ?

lol has anyone seen Gattaca?

I saw Gattaca in year 10 genetics and year 10 English. The movie tries to go through the moral dilemma of Eugenics.

If you extrapolated the data to a couple thousand years in the future, it could produce two species of human (sort of like the time machine). You would have rich people progressing into perfect humans, whilst the poorer humans could be shoved aside and progress into something like a morlock.

I wonder what it is like in the very far away future.

I don't understand why (or how) I watched all of The Time Machine without turning off the TV.

Gattaca on the other is awesome and taught me the nucleotides of DNA when I was in grade 3 or 4.

[crappy]

Gattaca still shits me to this day, when the guy locks himself in the incinerator and ....................

grrrrr

[Nomvalt]

Gattaca still shits me to this day, when the guy locks himself in the incinerator and ....................

grrrrr

incinerator? didn't he go outer space and wasn't it a rocket? or are you talking about the director's cut?

[Twenty10]

^No. The guy he is talking about is the dude who gave Vincent his profile and everything.

[simonhu81292]

i think he's talking about Jerome ... not sure if i spelt it right ..

[Fyrefly]

Jerome (the handicapped "valid") commits suicide... Vincent (the "invalid" main character) goes into space.

"As the day of the launch finally arrives, Jerome bids Vincent farewell and says that he intends to travel too. He reveals that he has stored enough genetic samples to last Vincent two lifetimes. Overwhelmed and grateful, Vincent thanks Jerome for "lending" him the identity that has allowed his success at Gattaca. Jerome replies, however, that it is he who should be grateful, since Vincent lent Jerome his dreams. As Vincent moves through the Gattaca complex to the launch site, he is stopped for an unexpected DNA test. Vincent reluctantly agrees to take the test, even though he has none of Jerome's genetic material to hide his identity. The test result uncovers Vincent's "in-valid" status, and the doctor, Lamar, reveals that he has known Vincent's true identity all along, saying: "For future reference, right-handed men don't hold it with their left. Just one of those things". Lamar then alters the test result to allow him to proceed regardless, confessing that his son admires Vincent, and wants to be an astronaut just like him, despite an unforeseen genetic defect that would already rule him out. As the shuttle lifts off, Jerome is shown committing suicide inside his home incinerator, wearing his silver medal, which turns gold in the flames."

[the.watchman]

Ah, I didn't notice the medal turning gold when I watched it.
Great film though, heaps of themes

[Fyrefly]

Ah, I didn't notice the medal turning gold when I watched it.
Great film though, heaps of themes

It used to be a Year 12 text under the old, old course... but something like 70% of schools did it as their text and Gattaca essays just completely dominated the English exam every year... you can imagine how sick of it exam markers got.

[the.watchman]

Ah, I didn't notice the medal turning gold when I watched it.
Great film though, heaps of themes

It used to be a Year 12 text under the old, old course... but something like 70% of schools did it as their text and Gattaca essays just completely dominated the English exam every year... you can imagine how sick of it exam markers got.

Lol, we studied it last year (Yr 10).

[Fyrefly]

Ah, I didn't notice the medal turning gold when I watched it.
Great film though, heaps of themes

It used to be a Year 12 text under the old, old course... but something like 70% of schools did it as their text and Gattaca essays just completely dominated the English exam every year... you can imagine how sick of it exam markers got.

Lol, we studied it last year (Yr 10).

I can't remember what I did in year 10... my teacher sucked.

But yeah... that's why so many students study it in Year 10 / 11... because English teachers have got a *heap* of material on it they can just recycle.

[the.watchman]

Ah, I didn't notice the medal turning gold when I watched it.
Great film though, heaps of themes

It used to be a Year 12 text under the old, old course... but something like 70% of schools did it as their text and Gattaca essays just completely dominated the English exam every year... you can imagine how sick of it exam markers got.

Lol, we studied it last year (Yr 10).

I can't remember what I did in year 10... my teacher sucked.

But yeah... that's why so many students study it in Year 10 / 11... because English teachers have got a *heap* of material on it they can just recycle.

Ah ok, it makes heaps of sense for them to that i guess