First results from US CRISPR gene editing on human embryos

yep, you nailed it as well, especially about the Chinese research, if we didnt respond to it with out own it was going to be very limiting in the future

>complexity means things have to take a fucking century
Computers did not exist in any form 100 years ago
Aircraft were only 110 years ago

shit progresses far faster than multi-generational timeframes

make anime real already!

USA! USA! USA!

>Planes complicated
Brainlets detected
Please lay off the popsci koolaid for a while
>Pic related is an ancient "computer"
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism

Also any brainlet first year CS student should know Babbage, who too designed and later on his life completed construction of a mechanical computer
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytical_Engine

Wut?

Will they genetically engineer me a gf?

Babbage never constructed his mechanical computer. Babbage made neither a Difference Engine or Analytical Engine

Lift was very well understood for centuries, we just didn't have anything capable of long distance travel because back then steam was still a dominating power source and all we really were able to work with. There were 660ft flights and so on without an engine or propeller.