The HETE-1 was supposed to look for gamma ray bursts. If you haven't heard about these events, they are believed to emanate from explosions so powerful that they produce more energy in a matter of seconds than the sun will emit in its entire 10 billion years of life.
The cool thing is that astronomers have almost no idea what could be causing these enormous bursts.
For people who find this dehumanizing, remember the case of Louise Joy Brown--the first test tube baby. At first people found in vitro fertilization dehumanizing, then they saw a cute, well adjusted young girl brought into the world. It's hard to call a technology dehumanizing that creates cute, healthy babies.
The public will accept reproductive cloning as long as the babies produced by it are healthy and are born into normal, caring families. I will be interested to see whether cloned babies grow up healthy. If they do, then parents desire to have children will overcome any squeamishness they may have about raising an identical twin, and cloning will become common place.
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The HETE-1 was supposed to look for gamma ray bursts. If you haven't heard about these events, they are believed to emanate from explosions so powerful that they produce more energy in a matter of seconds than the sun will emit in its entire 10 billion years of life.
The cool thing is that astronomers have almost no idea what could be causing these enormous bursts.
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For people who find this dehumanizing, remember the case of Louise Joy Brown--the first test tube baby. At first people found in vitro fertilization dehumanizing, then they saw a cute, well adjusted young girl brought into the world. It's hard to call a technology dehumanizing that creates cute, healthy babies.
The public will accept reproductive cloning as long as the babies produced by it are healthy and are born into normal, caring families. I will be interested to see whether cloned babies grow up healthy. If they do, then parents desire to have children will overcome any squeamishness they may have about raising an identical twin, and cloning will become common place.