Thread: Cloning -- What do ya think?

Originally posted by dP munky
i dont understand? what would be the point cloning a person though? 1 of each of us is enough runnin around here!

Cloning isn't exactly making a copy of one person. It's more like one egg twins. Same genetics, true. But as they grow they get more and more different.

Cloning could remove all genetical diseases (alzheimers and such) which is a good thing...
The problem could be in overpopulating the earth .

An imortality thought..

If you clone a human, (or anything else), then introduce the genetic malfunctions which prevent the growth of the brain, (there are several), you have a body, which is not a person, (no brain), that, given sufficient advances in technique, you could transplant the older persons brain into. No rejection worries/drugs. Imortality, just swap bodies every 30/40 years.

Patent applied for!

Hmm, but the brain ages too. It won't last forever...

adrianxw>>If you clone a human, (or anything else), then introduce the genetic malfunctions brain, (there are several), you have a body, which is not a person, (no brain), that, given sufficient advances in technique, you could transplant the older persons brain into. No rejection worries/drugs. Imortality, just swap bodies every 30/40 years.<<

Do we have stop at a frail human body?
Can I go the full upgrade to terminator style cyborg?
Or will I only be able to afford just a jar for my brain when my body runs out?

novacain>>One of the real advantages of cloning is in research you know the organism is an exact copy of the others in the test group and so can eliminate alot of the variation between organisms.<<

dP munky>>and the advantage of doing that would be...?

If you are testing chemicals for say, cancer causing agents. Having animals with exactly the same probability to develop cancer will allow more accurate testing or smaller test sizes (cheaper, better for the animals).

Originally posted by Cgawd
i didnt even read this thread, but wouldnt it be cool to go up to some reaaaaallllyyy hot chick and take a peice of her hair, go to the store and make a clone of her, take it home and enjoy it :-D this would effectively put in a "natural selection" type evolution that would wipe out ugly people, but i dont see anything wrong with that.

That's only if you're not ugly, Cgawd.

good point! very good point. Why fight death, of course non of us want to die but it happens. i understand there are many medical advances that could me made by cloning healthy tissue to help fight disease but human cloning just for the sake of cloning isnt worth the time and money

Yes, and "ugly people" would be running off and reproducing with other "ugly people". The chance of "pretty clones" taking over the world is as probable in this age as any one race taking over simply because they reproduce more.

It is one of those SCIENTIFIC facts that beautiful people are intelligent (what king of the world would **** a bear?). These people have more mating opportunities than their ugly breathen. Therefore you are one of the most beautiful humans that have ever walked the planet. And if you're not beautiful enough then in time you'll meet the evolutionary equivalent of the chop.

>>The problem could be in overpopulating the earth

No more of a problem than it currently is. Theres no concievable way that we could create "cloned" humans at any kind of rate which would have any measurable impact on the population.

>>go to the store and make a clone of her, take it home and enjoy it

>>well of course the technology would be available to grow clones fast or soemthing

Could we have maybe one thread for immature people to babble in, and keep this thread for actual intelligent conversation? Dont mean to be offensive... Oh wait, yes I do. Either you're acting the idiot for attention, or you actually are one. Which is it?

>>Its all well and good to bring back extinct speices, but not humans

No its not good to bring back extinct species... Not necessarily. They're extinct for a reason remember. Mother Nature didnt want them in the picture. They may not fit with the current enviroment. It would be simular (though likely worse) to introducing a new species into an alien region.

>>if you cloned a person, that clon would get frail and weak at the same time as grandma

True. But there are cells available that have no lost DNA fragments. The so called 'sex' cells. Theres all the data you need to make a new human being. How do you think it works normally?

>>using it for organs

Nobody is suggesting this. Where are you getting this stuff from? No wonder there are people against cloning if this kind of crap is in peoples heads.

Oh wait, yes I do. Either you're acting the idiot for attention, or you actually are one. Which is it?

lighten up douche bag, ever heard of a joke? sheesh, where did those things called sense of humors go....maybe we should clone you one.

Nobody is suggesting this. Where are you getting this stuff from? No wonder there are people against cloning if this kind of crap is in peoples heads.

what, are u high? this is one of the biggest points of cloning in the eyes of scientists....i mean, what else would we do with a clone? what would the point of a clone be?-are you so full of yourself you want another one of you so you can be full of both of yourselves?

edit>>stupid canadians