HAHA the cat picture wins the thread!
So awesome can't stop looking at it.

We are gods now. We can do whatever we want.
Mass monkey army with knifes to conquer the universe!!

Flaccid

8850 Posts

August 06 2008 13:02 GMT

#23

They're doing it all wrong.

alpskomleko

Slovenia950 Posts

August 06 2008 13:07 GMT

#24

On August 06 2008 21:45 Hawk wrote:
Meh... cloning should be limited to certain body parts for medical reasons. Not for any jackass who is so emotionally attached to soemthing that they can't live without it.

Sure, it's just.. you can't clone individual body parts. They don't grow in vats, regardless of what many games would have you believe. Though if you know that and still insist on cloning "body parts", namely cloning whole beings and cutting them up for body parts, then that's gross and horrible.

Ghardo

Germany1685 Posts

August 06 2008 13:09 GMT

#25

don't see the logic in doing that
some decadent fatass whores like the one in the picture may do such things
but you don't get the very same dog back. you also wouldn't get the very same child back. the mind/soul/whatevertocallit is not automatically copypasted along when you make a copy of the body. the existence of your previous dog/child has vanished and you would only replace it with another being that will function pretty similarly but is not a fucking resurrection.
cloning dead loved ones is for the weak of mind. why not have different children which can also be loved?
you only help yourself by creating such a clone, the dead ones remain dead.

itzme_petey

United States1400 Posts

August 06 2008 13:20 GMT

#26

my god... the koreans now have an unlimited food source. ingenius

tube

United States1475 Posts

August 06 2008 14:23 GMT

#27

On August 06 2008 22:20 itzme_petey wrote:
my god... the koreans now have an unlimited food source. ingenius

ohohohoohhoohoo... OHOHOHhohohoh...
yeah i dont think that kind of racism is necessary

CrownRoyal

Vatican City State1872 Posts

August 06 2008 14:38 GMT

#28

On August 06 2008 22:20 itzme_petey wrote:
my god... the koreans now have an unlimited food source. ingenius

LOL

Latham

9566 Posts

August 06 2008 14:39 GMT

#29

Death is a natural process in life. People should learn to accept it. They might want to clone their dead dogs, cats, children whatever to cheat the life cycle or death but I think in the end they're only cheating themselves. Some people might say it's not fair that they lost their loved ones but that's exactly life for you. It's brutal, the way it was made to be. Nature is red in tooth and claw.

I agree with the person that said we should only clone body parts for medical reasons.

KwarK

United States43247 Posts

August 06 2008 14:39 GMT

#30

5 genetic copies were born? So she's keeping one as a pet and the other four get killed? Because I don't imagine she'll want five of the same pet. Seems pretty hypocritical. Maybe they'll just go to a dog shelter though so she can replace hers if it dies again. There again, in this country pit bulls are routinely destroyed by the police for being born killers who we never should have created and should be made extinct.

Funchucks

Canada2113 Posts

August 06 2008 15:12 GMT

#31

On August 06 2008 22:07 alpskomleko wrote:

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No, cloning doesn't only refer to growing a complete new organism. There is also cell cloning, tissue cloning, and organ cloning. Stem cell research is cloning research.

(And for the record, the most interesting and promising area of stem cell research is adult stem cells harvested non-harmfully from living donors, not embryonic stem cells harvested from aborted fetuses. Neither kind was banned in the USA, but federal funding was withheld from research which required new aborted fetuses - federal funding is still granted to embryonic stem cell research based on embryonic stem cell lines harvested before the funding ban was put in place.)

nttea

Sweden4353 Posts

August 06 2008 15:15 GMT

#32

guys, better buckle up for some change. Death might not be a natural part of future life.

d.arkive

United States843 Posts

August 06 2008 15:16 GMT

#33

Don't cloned animals still have a supershort life span? Poor dog.

And you can clone individual body parts.

And the most interesting area is probably undifferentiating differentiated cells, since it's both ethically viable and results in clones that share the same DNA as the person who you might be trying to give therapy to.

meegrean

Thailand7699 Posts

August 06 2008 15:18 GMT

#34

Disturbing.

aRod

United States758 Posts

August 06 2008 15:19 GMT

#35

Poor lady doesn't realize it's not going to be the same dog.

KwarK

United States43247 Posts

August 06 2008 15:21 GMT

#36

One of the more interesting uses of stem cell research is a surprising cure for infertility in men. Basically you give scientists a tooth and they break it open and take some stem cells from inside. They then put these stem cells in the testes of a mouse and wait a while. Then they kill the mouse and harvest your new sperm. Mix it with an egg and viola, the genetic child of an infertile man. Think about how huge the ability to have children is to an infertile man. That's how valuable stem cell research is.

indecision

Germany818 Posts

August 06 2008 15:25 GMT

#37

one might argue that people are infertile for a reason though...
[edit: reason as in they have a disease or sth that shouldn't spread, not from a moral point of view]

zizou21

United States3683 Posts

August 06 2008 15:36 GMT

#38

On August 07 2008 00:21 Kwark wrote:
One of the more interesting uses of stem cell research is a surprising cure for infertility in men. Basically you give scientists a tooth and they break it open and take some stem cells from inside. They then put these stem cells in the testes of a mouse and wait a while. Then they kill the mouse and harvest your new sperm. Mix it with an egg and viola, the genetic child of an infertile man. Think about how huge the ability to have children is to an infertile man. That's how valuable stem cell research is.

so basically, this is the result

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