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Human Animal Hybrid Created in Lab
guanno writes "National Geographic has an article stating that... "Scientists have begun blurring the line between human and animal by producing chimeras--a hybrid creature that's part human, part animal."
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He just got inaugurated.
... it'll make the furries happy!
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Typical liberal thinking.
Laws do little to stop action. Just because you make a law against something, it doesn't mean you're going to stop it (in fact, you might encourage it).
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Here is where those two grade degrees sure come in handy.
That is some fucked up shit!
It is not a luddite attitude that makes me scared about this area, it's the fact that (as scifi as this sounds) it could be introduced by the Chinese gov't (or heck, our own) as a new military. Can you imagine how crazy that would be? These are questions that are actually fully legit right now since we haven't decided the repercussions of what we're doing now. It's similar to cloning, we don't want to do something that our children's children will regret.
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In the hopes of catching SciFi fans, could I recommend the fiction of Jeff Noon, especially 'Vurt' and 'Pollen', partly predicated on exactly this sort of development and its social consequences.