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Should We Clone a Neanderthal?
SpaceAdmiral writes "Forget cloning a woolly mammoth — should scientists clone a Neanderthal? Such a feat should be possible soon, although it raises a number of bioethics concerns, including where to draw the line between humans and other animals."
great hockey players!
Cause then it would no longer be socially acceptable for women to call us that anymore.
How we know is more important than what we know.
Dibs on the TV franchise rights! Neander-thon! Saturdays at 8!
1)Clone Neanderthals
2)Make Geico commercials
3)Profit!
Geico would pay good money for the authenticity.
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Since it's pretty clear that it's only a matter of time. we need a constitutional amendment that grants person-hood and citizenship to any and all future Neanderthal clones. Just get that crap out of the way.
Wasn't having one of them run the country for eight years bad enough?
---Technology will liberate us if it doesn't enslave us first.
Wouldn't that be like knowingly bringing someone into the world knowing that they are going to be horrendously ugly and live their life lonely? Wouldn't having sex with them be borderline doing it with a gorilla? What would the ethical ramification of this be?
But when the inevitable species war erupts, we can end racism.
You mad
If God have meant for us to clone a Neanderthal, He would provide us the tools and the knowledge to do that!!
That's like asking "Should I flash linux onto the Microwave so I can use it as a file server?" or "Should I port Doom to the Credit-card reader I bought off eBay?" or "Should I build a deliberately complicated system of relays, pulleys, levers, programs and scripts so that I may control the precise movements and power output by a bog-standard toaster remotely, from 500 miles away?". I mean, really, do you have to ask? Of course we fucking should!
+1 IDisagreeSoHeMustBeATrollOrAnAstroturferOrAShill
Survival of the fittest does not mean survival of the smartest or survival of the strongest. What if Neanderthals are mentally and physically superior to Homo Sapiens? I can't wait to hear the NFL Players' Association bitching about unfair competition. These guys used to hunt mammoths with wooden spears. They don't need protective equipment and they will kick your ass.
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Of course we should clone one...
How else am I going to get a date?
Try to hack my 31337 firewall!
Once it learns how to speak, it can tell us what it was like to live back then!
Geico would make an Obscene CLone Fall
- Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, minutus carborata descendum pantorum.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I'm just a caveman. I fell on some ice and later got thawed out by some of your scientists. Your world frightens and confuses me! Sometimes the honking horns of your traffic make me want to get out of my BMW.. and run off into the hills, or wherever.. Sometimes when I get a message on my fax machine, I wonder: "Did little demons get inside and type it?" I don't know! My primitive mind can't grasp these concepts. But there is one thing I do know - when a man like my client slips and falls on a sidewalk in front of a public library, then he is entitled to no less than two million in compensatory damages, and two million in punitive damages. Thank you.
My mammoth is already calculating prime numbers.
Eh, I'm still confused about my sarcastic comment being modded insightful.
You mad
I heard of a museum called POTUS (Primates Of The United States, I believe it stands for) where they claim to have just one such specimen, though the exhibit is due to be decommissioned in early 2009.
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we'll just fill in the gaps with frog DNA. what could possibly go wrong.
4. We could if we sent it to public school.
Yeah, my ex used to tell me 'size doesn't matter' before running off with that surfer dude...
Understanding the scope of the problem is the first step on the path to true panic.
Let's bring them back to use as a subjugated slave caste doing jobs that are too hard or dangerous for humans.
If you build it, nerds will come. Soylentnews.org
No, no, no, no, NO!
You've missed the point.
You do not start by cloning geniuses. Then you might end up with an evil genius and that would just end badly for everyone involved. No, it's far better to start with neanderthals and work your way up. Dear lord, you need to watch more horror movies.
So "not animals" only applies to plant life.
And once again our fuzzy friend the fungus has been ignored.
Mushrooms have feelings too you insensitive clod.
Dead Men Cloning Act?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
"It's capable of the lower levels of human functionality. Say, somewhere between Forest Gump and a chimpanzee"
This is exactly why we shouldn't do it. It's bound to vote Republican...
Many of the volunteers may be neanderthals too.
and George W Bush was a failed experiment
Trite and obvious.
Yet, the way it could pave,
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Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
Indeed. What I want to know is what attracts them all to YouTube.
I hate printers.
"It's capable of the lower levels of human functionality. Say, somewhere between Forest Gump and a chimpanzee"
This is exactly why we shouldn't do it. It's bound to vote Republican...
I'd say with credentials like that, he or she could be Sarah Palin's running mate!
"Such a feat should be possible soon"
One top scientist was quoted as saying, "It's so easy a caveman could do it".
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Indeed. What I want to know is what attracts them all to YouTube.
Well, I can't speak for all cave dwellers, but I go for the free food. And the chicks are cool.
Get your dogma outta my yard!