Time-scales

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "victoriatangoman"
wrote:

> For those who are wary of tinkering with the human genome, we can
> leave it basically unadultered and create a 24th chromosome into
> which we can place all enhancements. This way, when the child
> becomes of age they can choose to activate some features, or
remove
> them so that they aren't passed along to offspring. Further, when
> version 2.0 of the enhancement comes out, it won't help you, but
it
> can be added to the 24th, and passed on to your offspring. IF
things
> go wrong, the human genome is still intact.

Forgot to add this link:

http://edition.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9903/11/t_t/artificial.chrom/