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Scientists Give Human Organs to Lamb

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the island-of-dr.-moreau dept.

TK Interior writes "Myrtle Beach Online reports the existence of a lamb-human chimera-- a blend of two different species. Not only has a lamb been given a human liver and heart, but mice are sporting human brain cells. At what level is a chimera 'too' human? Where do you draw the line between human and animal? How will this affect evolution?"

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  1. Seen them before by oexeo · · Score: 5, Funny

    These things aren't new, they've been posting on /. for years!

  2. I don't like it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    This can only be ba-a-a-a-ad.

    1. Re:I don't like it. by goon+america · · Score: 4, Funny

      The full quote is, "four legs good, two legs bad"

      Some animals are more equal than others.

  3. Yay! by Hamster+Of+Death · · Score: 5, Funny

    I welcome our 5 assed overlords!

  4. too human by MadFarmAnimalz · · Score: 4, Funny

    At what level is a chimera 'too' human?

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  5. Re:But the Scotsmen will..... by K1-V116 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or so the Scots would have it. ;)

    Never heard this old saw?: "Why do Scotsmen wear kilts? Because sheep can hear a zipper a mile away...."

    And yes, I have Scotch blood, so I'm allowed to poke fun. Or is that Scotch in my blood? Bother....I can never remember.

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  6. Re:But the Scotsmen will..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    -East Coast Americans believe it's the West Virginians
    -For Canadians, I've heard it's the "Newfies" (Newfoundlanders)
    -In England it's the Welsh
    -The Irish think it's the Scottish
    -The Scottish think it's the Aussies
    -Aussies and New Zealanders accuse each other having intimate relations with Lamb Chop on a regular basis
    -and, apparently South Africans think we Aussies are the sheep-fuckers...

    If you think about it, it's really the sheep who are the sluts.

  7. Re:Too human? by flyingsquid · · Score: 4, Funny
    It's such a strange debate, this "rights of the zygote" stuff. The rest of the western world got over this years ago, and continues to progress. The U.S., with its constant, energy-sapping moral debates fueled by religious irrationality, is so anachronistic.

    You heartless bastard. What about the rights of the sperm? Are we just going to sit by idly as millions- billions of sperm are mercilessly slaughtered, as if somehow a single flagellated cell was worth less than an entire human being? We need a constitutional ban on masturbation! Masturbation is MURDER!