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Sadly for your OSC clone plan, this isn't reproductive cloning. Nor is it new news. Which may make you more or less upset about this news, depending.
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Well, it is new news for today since the license before was to a different group. This is the Dolly the sheep group, so I imagine it’ll be a little more creditable.
Who is the OSC clone? Puppy? I was hoping for full grown ones like they had on the movie “The 6th Day”. That way they can all be working on more books! Lots of fun for us!
I thought this subject would have generated more debate. So what does everyone think? For against? I think it’s going to happen. I think we could use research from it to help cure things. I of course would hope that we could do it without killing babies though. Interesting.
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It's going to happen? If you're talking about a reproductive clone of a human being, I agree with you. It's going to happen and the first time it happens it probably will not be done well.
If you're saying that the types of cloning that the "Dolly Group" now have a license to do is going to happen then, naturally, I agree with you because it's already been happening for many years.
Can we do it without killing any babies? That, in no small part, depends on when you believe life begins. Which may be why more people aren't weighing in on this topic. I think we've gone over it within the last month or so and people are still recharging from it.
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Human life begins in a petri dish. Useta start in the cabbage patch, but what with the GlobalWarming meltdown of storks to home deliver them... ...FedExed straight from the lab to the hospital.
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A clone is nothing but an identical twin born many years later.
A clone will not have the memories nor, necessarily, the talent of the original.
A clone will start live as a baby and grow at the same rate as any other baby.(*)
Just as twins are their own people, so are clones.
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(*) Due to possible genetic damage or aging of the donor, there is concern that a clone will grow old faster, though not grow up faster. This has to do with the fact that our genes whittle away at the end as we age and if a pre-whittled gene is used in the cloning the worry is the clone will get the shaft as far as the aging process. You'll have a child who is a child in every way except he has wrinkles and grey hair and will be knocking on death's door. This is a theoretical problem as far as I know.
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By creditable I was meaning they’ve done it. But the story didn’t say what the other company had done in the past.
Yeah, I’m not sure what to think about where it is actually human and where it is just a bunch of cells.
No no, I wasn’t trying to imply that Geoff is an adult. Maybe full grown was the wrong term and a more accurate would have been same age as. Guess not very many of you have seen 6th Day. It was so neat. They had “blanks” already grown that they could imprint with your DNA and then “copy” your memories onto it. Sort of like a hard drive transfer so to speak. So I guess it wouldn’t really be you since it wouldn’t have your soul. But still an interesting concept.
Wow! I love sci fi! Guess it’s becoming sci fact though…..
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