Knowing theres talented leaders in the room. Would you want to revive that in some way . Something that would fit on a billboard . I mean, i think again the myth that the gentlemans agreement between grant and lee is a compelling one and not one that doesnt have merit. It was a great achievement for these two men to end the war. I would like to say parent radically, sometimes people these days well talk about a long civil war and appomattox didnt win the war. Effectively, appomattox ends the civil war. There are surrenders to come. Yes armies in the field, but what happened after appomattox is not going to revive hopes were confederate independence. They die here at appomattox. It is the effective end of the civil war and a great achievement to end the war. This notion of a narrative about a gentlemans agreement exists from the very start and even some of these editors like really who were arguing about the terms. Theres an air selfcongratulation that america ended at civil war and awa
[inaudible] those who have questions to come on up. You can start it off. When you make your synthetic cell, what did you put the dean into . It was an existing cell that was it programs did, the cell youre looking for . So, exactly what we did, we put it into the other so which is what were using as our recent in cell. And it converted into what was coded for by the new chromosome. So the idea that dna is a digital code that can be downloaded and so on, how well does that extend to more complex organisms into the importance of how traits are inherited and how dna is expressed . We are not ready to beam humans across the universe, although i somewhat jokingly talk about as much in them being sequenced 14 years ago, its been broadcast into space now for quite a while. So easy an army of j. Craig venters coming back, dont be too shocked. [laughter] but obviously even quote simple single eukaryotic cells have a lot more levels of regulation. But one thing you should be cognizant of is epi
You know about this. And it leads to the question, are they misof informing congress, do you think . And if so, why . Well, first of all, they havent been asked the right question, so they havent misof informed congress. But there is such a thing as to missive misrepresentation to missive misrepresentation. And if you knew there was a terrorist getting your money, you would with duty bound to report it. And our country, our administration should not be vibrantly and robustly allowing american taxpayer money to be fungiblely financed into terrorist salaries. We should just abruptly say this has got to stop. Now, let me give you a similarly. The biggest simile. The biggest demonstration in the history of man kind occurred in egypt some months ago. The biggest petition in the history of mankind occurred in egypt some months ago. The Muslim Brotherhood was dethroned. The question was, and i have my own tv show, i asked this question, everybody in the media was asking this question, was it
Is experimenting with synthetic life in the laboratory. Arent you playing god . Were not playing anything. Were understanding the roles of life. Do you believe in god . No. [ticking] this is the first allelectric sports car, the roadster, made by tesla motors. Yeah, you can floor it, no problem. Itll be fine. All right. Here i go. You ready . The chairman of tesla, elon musk, says the roadster can accelerate from 0 to 60 in four seconds. Its propelled by more than 6,000 fingersized laptop batteries and not a single drop of oil. Welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. Im lesley stahl. In this edition, we look at the business of powering the planet. We meet a group of overnight millionaires getting rich from gas dug out of rocks. We also take a look at the financial promise of an emerging science known as Synthetic Biology. And finally, we examine an alternative car fuel that you probably never heard of laptop computer batteries. We begin with an unconventional process for extracting natural gas
Life in the laboratory. Arent you playing god . Were not playing anything. Were understanding the roles of life. Do you believe in god . No. [ticking] this is the first allelectric sports car, the roadster, made by tesla motors. Yeah, you can floor it, no problem. Itll be fine. All right. Here i go. You ready . The chairman of tesla, elon musk, says the roadster can accelerate from 0 to 60 in four seconds. Its propelled by more than 6,000 fingersized laptop batteries and not a single drop of oil. Welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. Im lesley stahl. In this edition, we look at the business of powering the planet. We meet a group of overnight millionaires getting rich from gas dug out of rocks. We also take a look at the financial promise of an emerging science known as Synthetic Biology. And finally, we examine an alternative car fuel that you probably never heard of laptop computer batteries. We begin with an unconventional process for extracting natural gas from shale, a dense rock formati