Slashdot Mirror
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.
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"?
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
No. They are going to have mint jelly with this.
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.
In the upper midwest they are referred to as "Montana Blondes"
Ahh, Scotland - where the men are men, and the sheep are nervous.
"If he thinks he can hide and run from the United States and our allies, he's sorely mistaken." Bush on bin Laden
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"?