Dr. Andrew Huff

The synthetic life could be magnetic and attract to the hull of a submarine.

It would attach itself, and then it would make decisions about where it should collect on the surface of the submarine independently to create a biofilm and self-replicate to basically cause the sensors or to disable the submarine in some way.

In space, use a similar type of maybe...

I'm not so sure what the delivery vehicle is, but say that you were to get this onto a satellite, you could use it then to eat and corrode the silicon and magnesium and the structure of that.

You could use it to basically disable the systems on board of the physical structure of the vessel or the satellite.

And that's just, I mean, what's really so striking about this is

This technology will be able to use to attack objects, but it's a synthetic living thing.

There's also the life.

So there's a new fork here.

You can use it to attack objects or you can use it to attack life itself.

And that's more what people would be familiar with.

You could use it to attack specific genetic populations, for example.

So if a certain population had a genetic trait, you can make the synthetic pathogen specifically target

Name your niche of race or population of genetically related, close related families.

More difficult, probably.

Well, unless they had some kind of specific marker.

That's absolutely true.

I mean, that's scientifically true.

And I was quite familiar with that literature when he made that comment.

There was a finding in a scientific publication that two different populations of people of Jewish ancestry, depending which line they're from, one was more heavily impacted than the other.