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Goodbye, Dolly
goombah99 writes "Dolly, the famous cloned sheep has been put to death after being diagnosed with a progressive lung disease, according to many reports. This follows on earlier reports that she was prematurely aging, including developing arthritis. While one should be cautious about drawing conclusions from a single data point, its interesting to speculate." Here is a link to her birthplace courtesy of Captain Large Face
Hello Lamb Chops !!!
This is the best thing about cloning. An endless supply of lamb chops !!!
-- You see, there would be these conclusions that you could jump to
"While one should be cautious about drawing conclusions from a single data point, its interesting to speculate."
It's obviously a sign from above...
There is nothing sadder for a parent than having to burry their clone....
Somehow that just did not sound right.
This follows on earlier reports that she was prematurely aging, including developing arthritis.
The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long. And you have burned so very, very brightly, Roy-- um, I mean Dolly.
I write in my journal
"We had to put her to sleep," they said sheepishly. "She was in shear agony. There was mutton we could do about it."
If your bitterest enemies are people who hack the heads off civilians, then I would say you're doing something right.
I'll have my inflatable sheep to remember her by...
It wasn't cloning that got her lungs - it was secondary cigarette smoke from the black sheep of the family.
SCO, Microsoft, P2P, what's your hot button?
but boy, that ass...
Now that's desirable!
Remember, Blade Runner (and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?) had such first...
In fact, isn't it a bit ironic that a sheep is prematurely aging, versus the mechanical fake sheep (and title) in Philip K. Dick's novel?
IBM had PL/1, with syntax worse than JOSS,
And everywhere the language went, it was a total loss...
this is good...
i was all set to make believe i saw ufos so i could join up with the raelians. i don't know how long i could have maintained that lie. but since these are the only folks who will cut off the head of my clone and put my brain in his shell, what can a craven mortal do?
since it looks like all this cloning stuff won't give me unlimited life yet, now i don't have to maintain the charade.
i'm going to tell those raelians the truth and give them a piece of my mind!
oh wait, er...
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
They don't know how many sheep they've actually cloned, you know. They tried counting the sheep, but they fell asleep...
Ooh, a sarcasm detector. Oh, that's a real useful invention.
Sheep are very loving animals.
Aye son, ye cannae deny tha'.
Am I the only one who heard Roxette to sing "I'm gonna get blitzed for some sex"?
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - the cutting edge cloned mammal Dolly was found dead in her Maine home this morning. There weren't any details. I'm sure we'll all miss her, even if you weren't a fan of her creators' work there's no denying her contribution to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
Whew. For a second there, I misunderstood that headline. What a relief. Although she is getting on in years... Who2 Profile
[homer]
Mmmmm... la-a-amb... *drool*
[/homer]
Sorry - I don't know how to spell the 'raaghchchgh' Homer makes at drool time. D'oh.
(Yes, I know 'bury' was misspelled, but 'cury' just wouldn't have worked.)
I want to drag this out as long as possible. Bring me my protractor.
Baa, baa, baa!
TRANSLATION:
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Lab rats examined by laboratory technicians. I watched hay pour into my trough like a golden rain of food. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die. Oh, and uh, it's painful to live in fear, isn't it?
I'm the stranger...posting to
This may just be my opinion, but instead of wasting time cloning animals, scientists should be figuring out how to transplant brains into robotic bodies. Being able to live forever as a cyborg is far more important to me then having a clone of myself which will just grow old and pathetic.
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President George Bush is visiting an elementary school and enters one of the classes. They are in the middle of a discussion related to words and their meanings. The teacher asks the President if he would like to lead the class in the discussion of the word, "tragedy." So the illustrious leader asks the class for an example of a "tragedy." One little boy stands up and offers, "If my best friend, who lives next door, is playing in the street and a car comes along and runs him over, that would be a tragedy." "No," says Bush, "that would be an ACCIDENT." A little girl raises her hand: "If a school bus carrying 50 children drove off a cliff, killing everyone involved, that would be a tragedy." "I'm afraid not," explains Mr. President. "That's what we would call a GREAT LOSS." The room goes silent. No other children volunteer. President Bush searches the room. "Isn't there someone here who can give me an example of a tragedy?" Finally, way in the back of the room, a small boy raises his hand. In a quiet voice he says, "If Air Force One, carrying Mr.Bush and Mrs.Bush, were struck by a missile and blown up to smithereens, by a terrorist like Osam bin Laden, that would be a tragedy." "Fantastic," exclaims Bush, "that's right. And can you tell me WHY that would be a TRAGEDY?" "Well," says the boy, "because it wouldn't be an accident, and it certainly wouldn't be a great loss."
No. They are going to have mint jelly with this.
A little song, a little dance
A little seltzer down the pants!
If you want to make a great fundamental discovery in one of the hard sciences, then become a biologist. So much is unknown!
There are more chicks too.
Hello, Obscurity!
They can't. That would be a violation of the DMCA.
There's a biological process here that I haven't heard anyone describe, or even identify. And yes, I want to patent it.
:) :) :) :) :)
Patent a biological process involved in sexual reproduction?
Can you say "prior art"?
Looks like someone left a bug in Dolly's overloaded operator=
My other Beowulf cluster is... er...