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The Kevin Rose Show

Rob Reid - the dark side of gene editing and synthetic biology

The Kevin Rose Show

Kevin Rose

Business, Entrepreneurship, Technology

4.92.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

The world-changing promise of synthetic biology and gene editing has a dark side. In this interview, author and entrepreneur Rob Reid reviews the risks of a world where more and more people have access to the tools and tech needed to create a doomsday bug that could wipe out humanity -- and suggests that it's time to take this danger seriously.

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0:00.0

Hey everybody Kevin Rose here welcome back to another episode of the Kevin Rose show it is good to be back

0:06.3

I promise this time we're gonna have episodes coming at you every few weeks now it has been a

0:16.3

series of ups and downs as I've had a new baby girl. I didn't have the girl but my wife Daria did and it's been three months so

0:20.5

things are good mom is good baby good. I have two baby girls now, which is crazy.

0:25.0

Year and a half and three months.

0:28.0

That was back to back, which wasn't necessarily planned,

0:32.0

but we had always wanted the second kids or pretty grateful to have a healthy and happy baby and her name is Nova so things are good and I am back in the podcast seat. I have a handful of really amazing guests

0:45.1

coming up this summer.

0:46.7

One is going to be pretty crazy if I can lock it down.

0:50.0

There was this, I'll give you a little hint.

0:51.6

There was this New York Times article that came out here.

0:54.3

Well, there was actually one last year and one this year.

0:56.8

I was talking to some Navy pilots who have seen these UFOs

1:01.5

while out on missions in their F-16s.

1:04.7

Now what makes this different is that rather than just some random story

1:09.1

by some random pilot, for the first time ever

1:11.8

the government has released footage of these UFOs.

1:14.4

Now they're not saying that these are aliens. They're just saying here's some

1:18.6

footage we have of crafts and the crafts are traveling at speeds and staying in the air for, you know, 12 plus hours, which no craft, obviously no aircraft can do due to either, if it's a drone, there will obviously be battery restrictions in terms of you know just

1:35.0

how much power you can put out in a drone and how long it can stay in the air and then also

1:39.3

obviously when you're talking about fuel burning vehicles they can only be out there for a few hours so

1:45.0

These things they've recorded have done all different types of crazy maneuvers and what's really cool is that the government actually released this

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