Re-Pet a Reality

tigerdarklord writes "The Sci-Fi concept of pet cloning has become a commercial venture. Genetic Savings & Clone now not only offers genebanking for your pet (alive or recently dead), but a full service cloning shop. Although they started by producing two clones of the CEO's cat, they have now produced their first commercial clone for a woman from Texas. GSC has modified their cloning procedure to overcome the resemblance issues demonstrated when the College of Veterinary Medicine, Texas A&M, created CopyCat. The technology looks promising but the $50,000 price tag will prove to place the service out of the reach of most pet owners."

Comments

Re:I for one

[Caraig]

[I for one] Welcome our furry overlords!

You might wish to reconsider that sentiment.

Immortality?

[saha]

The last point of immortality is of concern. Why would one want to be immortal and still have the ability to reproduce? All living things need to die to make way for the offsprings, otherwise one has to compete for the same limited resources in any ecosystem.

Don't they say in that movie "Death becomes her" that at the very end of the movie at Dr. Ernest Menville's death, the narrator that he lives on through his progeny?

Organs, cells, DNA like computer code or operating systems can be patched and replaced a limited number of times, before a fresh reformat and new evolutionary operating system replaces the old, while inheriting the most desirable traits.

Re:Immortality?

[secolactico]

Don't they say in that movie "Death becomes her" that at the very end of the movie at Dr. Ernest Menville's death, the narrator that he lives on through his progeny?

Boy, that movie sucked. Like pretty much everything with Goldie Hawn in it.

Not that it invalidates your comment. Just my OT opinion.