Graduate students are but bacteria-sitters

This article was talking about other forms of life, etc, and scientists trying to develop synthetic 'alive' molecules, bacteria, somethings, anythings - and then I read this:

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His team have created perhaps the closest yet to a man-made alternative form of life.

"We are announcing the first example of an artificial synthetic chemical system capable of Darwinian evolution," he told the conference.

"Is it alive? Well, I can tell you that it is not self-sustaining.

"You have to have a graduate student stand there and feed it from time to time, but it is evolving."

Fellow graduate students, in the eyes of our supervisors, we only serve to feed the synthetic molecules from time to time, changing their carbon-enriched environments, and teaching them Darwinian evolution.

We, are bacteria-sitters.

Weep.