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Human-Animal Hybrids Fail

Posted by timothy on from the good-help-hard-to-find dept.

SailorSpork writes "Fans of furries and anime-style cat girls will be disappointed by the news that attempts to create human animal hybrids have failed. Experiments by British scientists to create embryonic stem cells by putting human DNA into cow or rabbit eggs had raised ethical concerns, but the question of how we would treat sub-humans will have to wait until we actually figure out how to make them."

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  1. How we would treat 'sub-humans' by 0racle · · Score: 5, Funny

    I believe that, at least in the case of cat-girls and bunny-girls, that question has already been answered.

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    1. Re:How we would treat 'sub-humans' by Kranerian · · Score: 5, Funny

      Ask not how you would treat a catgirl, but how a catgirl would "treat" you.

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    2. Re:How we would treat 'sub-humans' by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      If you've got to neuter your cat-girl then something went VERY wrong.

    3. Re:How we would treat 'sub-humans' by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      How we would treat 'sub-humans'?

      Probrably the same thing we do today. Put them in the White House and Congress.

  2. No wonder it doesn't work by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "putting human DNA into cow or rabbit eggs"

    No wonder it doesn't work. Cows don't even lay eggs!! Must be the UN scientists...

  3. Re:I'm tired of you ethical moralists by greenreaper · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm fine with people sorting ethics out in their own minds. It's when they start saying "hey, you can't do this unless and until I think it's OK" that I have a problem.
    If you want government grants for this kind of stuff, sure. Your funding comes from taxpayers, they have to approve it. If it's a matter of some guy creating human-animal hybrids on his own personal island, I don't see that it's anyone else's business.

  4. Re:Granted I'm not a geneticist... by philspear · · Score: 5, Funny

    The point of the hybrids mentioned isn't to make freakish movie monsters or vile fringe-wank material

    Now he tells me. I'm off to drop out of my graduate genetics program.

  5. Re:That's already been answered in comic form by Talderas · · Score: 5, Funny

    I would like to propose an addendum to Rule 34.

    If you can imagine it, there is porn and a wiki for it.

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