The Creation of Artificial Life

            Artificial Life.  No one ever thought that the human race would ever be able to create such a thing.  Scientists have been working for ages to create life through simulated means but it has been an allusive feat until recently.  The scientists who started the creation of this artificial life have devoted their lives to this so-called “God-like” work.

            This idea of artificial life started as just that, an idea.  Hundreds upon hundreds of different models were created on many different computers that were networked together so that all the models could be combined together in the best possible way to create the best combination for a successful sample of artificial life.  As we have learned by watching Battlestar Galactica, having a networked computer system can be helpful to connect all of the different things that are working together to create a bigger and better system.  The best model that the system of computers came up with showed that artificial life should be created within a time span of seven days.

Day 1:  The cells from the heart of a deceased person had been collected and stored in a freezer for exactly a year.  On the first day, the cells were removed from the freezer and set out to thaw for twenty-four hours. 

Day 2:  After the cells have thawed, they are put into a machine that separates the DNA from the rest of the cell.  DNA is stored at room temperature while the rest of the cell is put into an oven to kill off any of the impurities that had previously led to the demise of the cell.

Day 3:  The newly sanitized cells are now injected with a serum that was created by the scientists that is proven to restart reproduction in cells.  This serum is injected in small amounts four times during this day.

Day 4:  Each individual cell is studied under a microscope to see if the desired effect has begun to take place.  If it has not, then a new cell will need to be created because each body needs at least 5 cells to start with that will later multiply into millions.

Day 5:  The cells are put into a machine for eight hours.  This machine fires up the electrons of the cells which give the cells energy.

Day 6:  The finished cells are now injected into the corpse.  After, the body is injected with the same serum that the cells were injected with on Day 3 to help the process along.

Day 7:  The sample must be left alone for twenty-four hours in order to fully develop into a living, breathing organism.

After the twenty-four hour waiting period, the sample turned into a living organism.  The body immediately started coming to life again.  The color came back to his skin, his heart started beating, and he started to move first his hands and feet, then his extremities, then his entire body.  This was the first instance of artificial life.  Since that day, there have been 486 documented cases of new life that has been created and they are all being kept in a research facility.  52 of the 486 are babies that have been conceived between two artificially created people.  What will happen with this new species??