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Re-Pet a Reality

Posted by michael on from the double-your-pleasure dept.

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."

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  1. How does this effect Blogger's stock? by toupsie · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Rumor is on Wall Street is that Blogger went from a hold to a buy on this news.

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  2. Re:I for one by Caraig · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    [I for one] Welcome our furry overlords!
    You might wish to reconsider that sentiment.
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  3. Immortality? by saha · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    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.

    1. Re:Immortality? by secolactico · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      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.

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  4. If you want immortality, don't produce children by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If you want immortality and don't want the planet overpopulated, make a law that if you want to take advantage of the comming immortality tech, then you either get castrated before immortality treatment or you have children before having immortality treatment and then have to leave the planet (by that time, we will probably have cheap nanotech (where do you think cheap immortality tech comes from?), and because you have had kids, you will have to go off planet and live in one of the colonies on the moon, mars, orbiting colonies, the outer rim, so that you don't overtax the earth ecosystem...life involves trade-offs, the rich can get away with it, the super-rich/popular types (everybody watches them) and the regular crowd (all of us) find that we have to conform to norms of the culture we live in, or have to pay the penalty of ostrization etc.