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- Mihr, on 11/04/2008, -1/+54It echoes Jurassic Park haha.
- inactive, on 11/04/2008, -6/+39But we cant cure the common cold??
- newman8r, on 11/04/2008, -1/+25very cool
now just figure out how to reanimate the mouse and it will earn my digg
nah, screw it, I'm digging this anyway - CVL4317, on 11/04/2008, -1/+24I want my Einstein back
- zeebo, on 11/04/2008, -0/+16Wooly Mammoths here we come!
- Skwual, on 11/04/2008, -1/+16do we want to bring back saber tooth tigers?
- jakobmakob, on 11/04/2008, -0/+14People always say this, but fail to consider the fact that the "common cold" is a huge collection of different infections. It's much more complex than it's given credit for. The common cold isn't a single illness that's curable with one drug. That would be like somebody giving you a green crayon and telling you to draw a photorealistic image of a mountain landscape. You can draw the grass part fine, but the blue parts need a blue crayon.
- CrimsonBlur, on 11/04/2008, -0/+14You do realize that it won't be you, but another person that is genetically identical to you, right? What's the benefit in that to you?
Now if we had the technology to download the entirety of a person's consciousness and store it, then transplant that into the clone... now that would be something. I suppose a thousand years from now that might be possible, so good luck to you. - TekTrixter, on 11/04/2008, -1/+149. Profit
- socialpyramid, on 11/04/2008, -4/+15beat me too it! I was going to write: Life finds a way.
- aurorion, on 11/04/2008, -1/+11Sadly, many people don't realize that. They think cloning is a magical way to create an exact copy of an organism, complete with all memories. Or may be religious freaks think the clone can "share" the "soul" of the original or something like that.
Cludgo was probably just kidding though. - Cludgo, on 11/04/2008, -2/+12Mom!, Have you seen my jetpack?
NO MOM, it wasnt in the trunk of your flying car! - Phearce, on 11/04/2008, -1/+11I think you mean "sweet zombie jesus".
- StuartGibson, on 06/14/2009, -0/+9No benefit to me, but think of all the lucky future folk who will get to gaze upon my beauteous countenance once more.
- bezz, on 11/04/2008, -2/+11Finally, we can unfreeze Walt Disney!
- gllopc, on 11/04/2008, -3/+12Cloning is definitely not the same thing as creating life.
- socialexpert, on 11/04/2008, -1/+9I hope that scientists continue to work on projects like this one. With many species of animals going extinct at a rapid pace it is comforting to know that there is hope of preserving the species after all.
- phreak79, on 11/04/2008, -2/+10One step closer to Demolition Man.
- cawpin, on 11/04/2008, -1/+8So procreating isn't creating life?
- Ninnux, on 11/04/2008, -0/+7True. The influenza virus is very astute at changing itself to fool our adaptive immune response.
- cjh24, on 11/04/2008, -0/+7It didn't bring the mouse back to life, they just cloned some frozen cells.
It means that the clone they make of you at birth, can be frozen at peak physical performance ( ~25yoa), which may save your life, but it won't bring YOU back from frozen. - Olfster, on 11/04/2008, -0/+7As long as the San Francisco zoo is prohibited from having one, why not?
- MikalYungHistri, on 11/04/2008, -1/+8And names it Disney World!
- Frostek, on 11/04/2008, -0/+6If only you could take the missing DNA from a modern descendant, say like a frog, then extrapolate it... but wait a minute - that's bollocks!
- Navicerts, on 11/04/2008, -1/+7These articles always head straight for the tangent of "saber tooth tigers and woolly mammoths, yea!". Why not start taking blood samples of silver back gorillas or bring back some species we knocked off in the past 100 years (assuming you can get the DNA).
Heres a crazy sci-fi idea... Equip a space ship with the tools to thaw out and clone humans after let's say 2000 years and send if off; timer set. Of course the technology would need to be implemented to raise the children and getting any data back may be troublesome. - migshark, on 11/04/2008, -0/+6Imagine the size of the steaks!
- zeebo, on 11/04/2008, -1/+7That's just what Disney wants you to think, so that the world will be unprepared when Walt Disney rises from the grave to take control of the world.
- inactive, on 11/04/2008, -2/+7Yes, assuming the clone has all the same memories as you do. It still won't be "you".
- cmotdibbler, on 11/04/2008, -1/+6You're pretty much creating a delayed twin. I think a few hundred years from now they will be thawing/cloning people out from this era just so they can bitch slap them around for screwing things up so bad.
- Encablossa, on 11/04/2008, -0/+5The trapped dinosaur DNA is too fragment and damaged to use though.
- inactive, on 11/04/2008, -0/+4Ted Williams beat you to it and Michael Jackson has the next spot reserved.
- wantguru, on 11/04/2008, -1/+5that mouse image so easy to understand!
do i need a reservation for freezing my body before die? - artfiend77, on 11/04/2008, -1/+5Great. If I find my personality available for download on The Pirate Bay, one of you ***** are gonna get it....
- GunOfSod, on 11/04/2008, -1/+5Ohh I see what you.... nope.
- migshark, on 11/04/2008, -0/+4Never read Jasper Fforde novels? Everyone has little genetic-engineering kits, like the ones you get in magazines for model airplanes. Lots of people have pet dodos and the migratory mammoths keep trampling the garden =p. Oh and the Neanderthals were brought back from extinction as a cheap work force but started demanding rights and such.
Quite amusing. - Cludgo, on 11/04/2008, -3/+6DUDE!, now i can freeze my body, or even just a few cells, and clone a copy of myself in a thousand years! Sweeeetttttttt
- RobotBuddha, on 11/04/2008, -0/+3@coolxal
It depends on the nature of ones views about individuality. The memories won't be there, true. But the amount of a person's life that's purely genetic is huge. If you were in an accident and lost all your memories, but had a detailed record of your life to read about, including notes from the you of before the accident to the you of after, would the you of before the accident be considered dead or alive?
I think with things like this we get too caught up in assumptions without questioning some of the core foundations on which we're basing them. - protodon, on 11/04/2008, -0/+3not really
- protodon, on 11/04/2008, -0/+3They've been tryin for years now...
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-9590100.html - Navicerts, on 11/04/2008, -1/+4How so? There is a live mouse where once there was none.
I guess it depends on how you define life, I think of the frozen mouse as "dead" even though there were a few good cells floating around in there when they thawed it out. - jakobmakob, on 11/04/2008, -2/+5Ha, I get it, "very cool."
- migshark, on 11/04/2008, -1/+4What about Aerodactyl?
- GorfTron, on 11/04/2008, -0/+3The mouse had a mullet and endorsed Ronald Reagan.
- gllopc, on 11/04/2008, -2/+5I understand what you're saying - but:
The creation of life means creating living cells from components that were never living or were never part of a living organism
Cloning is the process of producing genetically-identical individuals from a previously living organism
I think they they could be easily confused. - mahill, on 11/04/2008, -1/+4I thought mosquitoes stuck in amber were important to this process!
- Frostek, on 11/04/2008, -0/+3Modern lions have a much better bite strength than the sabertooth tiger which was quite weak by comparison.
- Trancers, on 11/04/2008, -0/+2I didn't think it was that greighteight
- tonto69, on 11/04/2008, -1/+3I have cockroach that I froze way back in the Carter Administration that I'd like cloned.
- HonestAbe, on 11/04/2008, -0/+2C'mon guys. This is the Internet. There's no excuse for talking out of your ass.
http://www.snopes.com/disney/waltdisn/frozen.asp - HonestAbe, on 11/04/2008, -1/+3'assuming the clone has all the same memories as you do. It still won't be "you".'
Yes it would. -
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