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Scientists Claim They Cloned Humans
dustinbarbour writes "A South Korean-led research team has cloned human embryos to produce embryonic stem cells, a scientific first that promises to reignite public debate over cloning. Medical researchers hope to use cloned embryonic stem cells to someday treat diseases such as diabetes and Parkinson's. The cells potentially could create rejection-free transplant organ tissues." There's another story in the NYT.
Now the big question is: who to clone?
I, for one, can only think of people that should not exist.
Can we pass a law that stupid people aren't allowed near this stuff? We've got too many of them already.
It must be Thursday... I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
Not according to "Coast to Coast Radio" with Art Bell. According to him, the UN already has millions of cloned army men stationed in secret bases in Siberia and Northern Minnesota.
They seem to be cloning the cloning messages.
How often did we hear this before?
They seem to be cloning the cloning messages.
How often did...
imagine a beowulf cluster of clones...
"In related news, delegates to the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention have attempted to introduce a "yes, you can marry your own clone" clause into the gay marriage debate."
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Because that is a perfect way to destroy all the cloned zerglings that will come from South Korea.
Zergling Rush roolz!!
That are the big questions of ethics: /. either
After wich point of growing life is worth saving ?
After wich point is if unethical to commit abortion ?
Do we have something like a "soul" ?
Whats the meaning of life ?
No, its not 42 and not FP on
Spelling mistakes: My is english spoken not tongue of mother.
We need more! Make more people! Quick! There's just not enough baby factories in the world. Look at China, for example. There's hardly anyone there! It's an unpopulated wasteland! More clones now! Rah rah rah sis boom bah!
--- Ban humanity.
Once they find the Heorot burial yard, and can dig up the appropriate genetic material, this research brings us closer to the possibility of a Beowulf cluster of real Beowulves.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
> Did they clone Paris Hilton? If not, I don't care.
Yeah, but the clone turned out to be short, fat, and prudish.
We'll send her right over. How many do you want?
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Can we clone some pretty girls to make supply so high to make them available for geeks too?
SHE does throw dice.
Richard Nixons head and Richard Nixons head!
eeeewwwwww
Please! It's the only way a guy like me will ever get laid.
I am ready to make a down payment RIGHT NOW!
What if you clone yourself and genetically modify the DNA to make it a member of the opposite sex, apply some rapid growth and then have sex with it, does that count as masturbation or incest ??
This is the sig that says NI (again)
Can't you get stem cells from liposuction...
Yeah, but the result would look a bit like this..
You can kill anything that is alive. For instance, you can kill a plant. You can kill a single cell. If you want to kill a party, just bring up this topic.
The issue is more along the lines of "is an embryo a Human?" Certain religious people would say yes.
is that a story like this immediately transforms itself in the minds of some very ignorant people, into: Scientists are now able to create fully adult genetic and mental duplicates of me, who will look, talk, and act just like me, sleep with my wife and take over my life just like in The Sixth Day, and furthermore they will all be abominations in the eyes of God!! The reality of what's possible with cloning is far more mundane than our sci-fi nightmares, but the general public rarely concerns itself with the differences. Lets see:
Sci-Fi | Real Life
Genetic duplicate | Check
Adult | Baby
Same memories | No memories
Same personality | Somewhat similar personality
Steals my identity | WTF?
JC wouldn't like it | You are an idiot
I think his point is this: If I make a clone of myself, and one of us kills someone, how do you know which one did it? DNA is the same...
There are two types of people in the world: Those who crave closure
I, for one, welcome our new South Korean embryonic stem cell cloning overlords.
Seriously, if there were multiple instances of me, we could all take turns going to work, it'd be just like when Calvin and Hobbes built a Duplicator and Calvin had enough replicas that each one needed to go to school just one day a week.....
Isn't it interesting how you come to recognize posters based solely on their sigs???
I'm a bit harsher in my view, far as I'm concerned if you can't be dropped alone into a forest and survive, good riddance.
So would you say you support abortion up to the 23rd trimester?
~Will
sig?
As if Koreans weren't identical enough already.
An unhappy clone hunts down with intent to kill the scientist that created him. See the dramatic conclusion in tonights episode of "Clone Stalker".
try { do() || do_not(); } catch (JediException err) { yoda(err); }
Does anybody know whatever happened with the research on harvesting real adult stem cells from fat tissue?
From fat tissue? At last, jobs will go back to Americans!
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
You're entirely correct, sir! We should certainly not pay any attention to *anything* less important than nuclear annihilation. In fact, I propose that we all drop what we're doing now to begin working on this nuclear problem. Once we've taken care of that, we can all move to the next-largest problem in unison.
What's that? You're trying to save someone's life? Stop immediately! It won't make a difference anyway if we're all wiped out by nuclear cataclysm!
now we have a situation where instead of the jocks, actors, musicians, etc. will have there pick of 200 instead of 100, and since there are no "average girls", geeks will have a choice of ZERO. This will overwhelm the gene pool with humans of less than stellar intelligence, and whom are only interested in there popularity. In turn the Average IQ of the human race will start to decline to a point where Apes rule the world and humans can no longer speak.
After Millenia of Fighting, Apes and humans will unleash a scourge of death and destruction upon the earth, using remnants of nuclear and biological weapons left over from the 20th - 22nd centuries. Resulting in the Total Annihilation of life as we know it (Except cockroaches).
HAVE A NICE DAY.
I want 10 clones and make them do various things I have to do in everyday life. Cook, wash dishes, do laundry, do grocery shopping, go to work, find females etc.
I will be the one who blows the pay check and screws the chicks my clones rope in.
*evil laugh* bahahawhhwahwhawhawhwah