[InfernoGod]

The guy who cloned Dolly the Sheep has acquired the licence to clone humans.

[neo_hermes]

...your kidding me right...

edit: how the hell did i become the first? in the thread
edit2: what in gods name is goin on here? i'm spacing out right?

[Setekh]

Are you serious? Where'd you find out this?

[Solatar]

Source?

[InfernoGod]

It's on the Road Runner website. I'll get the link.
And... the forums are being weird lately...

[Setekh]

Originally posted by neo_hermes
...your kidding me right...

edit: how the hell did i become the first? in the thread

We've discussed this before, the server cluster that GameSpy is using (dynamic3, 4, 5, 6) is actually out of sync within itself - so when one server receives requests and sends timestamps to other servers, it'll be a minute or two out of whack.

[InfernoGod]

http://www.millennium-debate.org/ind12aug044.htm
That's a link for the article. I just got it off of CNN. (but it's not actually CNN)

Ah! My post is in the wrong place...

Small Correction: Human embryos, but that's a step closer to human cloning.

[icespeed]

omg.

i'm not sure what to think about this yet. i haven't devoted any thought to it. what are other people's viewpoints on cloning?

[Jetmech Jr.]

um...yay?
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YAY!

[BlackDove]

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

NOW I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING TO BREED THE SOLDIERS THAT WILL TAKE OVER THE WORLD FOR ME.

WOO HOO.

[Jetmech Jr.]

Think of it this way: It's one step towards being able to clone human organs. No more waiting for donors for some people!

[icespeed]

no, i meant _serious_ opinions.like, seriously.

[Jetmech Jr.]

Who said I wasn't being serious?

[icespeed]

not you, the others....

[Jetmech Jr.]

Ah...my mistake.

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[Flipside]

Well, my current views on cloning are that it's fine for cloning individual organs and for research, but to attempt to create a concious self-aware human is wrong for 4 main reasons :-

1 : Theres too many of us already
2 : Theres a whole bucketload of rights issues to sort out first.
3 : Dolly the sheep had genetic defects that the scientists couldn't explain.
4 : It's so much more fun making people the normal way.

Just remember, don't confuse sci-fi cloning with 'real' cloning, which does not make a replica of the donor, there are elements of, in Dollys case, a third sheep used to Fertilise the egg etc.

[Ford Prefect]

There is only one way this technology could prove beneficial: If we used it to make a huge crowd of Bill Nye clones, and had them all say "Science rules!" at the same time.

[aldo_14]

There's no intention to allow these cloned embryos to anything approaching 'life'.... in this case it's stem cell research into the progression of Motor Neurone Disease by cloning early stage embryos from the cells of sufferers; the scientist has already emphasised he has no intention of cloning actual babies.

My position is the same as Flips, really; cloning a breathing, living person is wrong, but for the purposes of new organs & stem cell research (so long as the embryo does not reach a viable i.e. 'alive' state) I think it's ok.

[BlackDove]

Originally posted by icespeed
not you, the others....

I wasn't kidding. The best way to raise an army quite quickly and mostly efficiently is to have them all genetically enhanced and pretty much on the same level.

Exependability rocks.

[Janos]

Go for it?

I mean, it's doable and could give us some insight about humans as a whole.