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Author Topic: Cloning  (Read 8119 times)

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Re: Cloning
« Reply #25 on: July 07, 2006, 03:45:17 AM »

I'm in the air with this one.

Normally we'd give you a warning for raising what we believe to be a 'dead thread'. I'll do so, but lightly. Please don't raise the dead.

That said, your post does have some merit, so don't take it too harshly as others might.
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Re: Cloning
« Reply #26 on: August 28, 2006, 01:58:04 PM »

I don't understand why this is that big a deal. If cloning works properly, a person born in a lab would be indistinguishable from a person pumped out in a hospital. It actually looks like a damn inefficient process to me, considering that we have a system that works well already. I mean, it was enormously expensive to duplicate one sheep, and even that didnt't work properly, and it will take a lot of money and time to improve the system to the point where it would be worthwhile.

What would cloning (human that is) even be good for? Soldiers? It would take a long time to grow and train them all, and what would be gained anyway? Not a lot, by my thinking.

Personally, I prefer good old fashioned killer robots and death rays in a doomsday plan.
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