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- Delphium226, on 11/21/2008, -5/+69One George Bush is enough.
- Diggnabbit, on 11/21/2008, -2/+40Yes. We should.
- bicyclethief, on 11/21/2008, -0/+27I see it already: Neaderchimp bites somebody, gives them the rage. The disease spreads like wildfire, staring the zombie apocalypse. *****, I better go buy a gun and 15 cans of soup.
- Crazysticks, on 11/21/2008, -0/+25We should clone any and everything. We are on this planet to explore and learn for our own survival.
- inyearstocome, on 11/21/2008, -2/+26We save countless humans that should be dying off due to natural selection, allow those who should not naturally be able to reproduce to reproduce, and rescue plenty of babies that should not make it due to natural causes. I don't necessarily agree with it, but we do a lot in the name of 'science' and more accurately, 'business' ;-)
- inactive, on 11/21/2008, -0/+23Tigers don't lay eggs... They ovulate and have eggs though. Are you retarded?
- LemonHerb, on 11/21/2008, -1/+17God Smod, I want my monkey man.
- aywwts4, on 11/22/2008, -1/+13...And to make an island where cloned velociraptors can be saddled and ridden by jesus-clones from DNA which was extracted from the shroud of turin.
- inactive, on 11/21/2008, -2/+12Zing.
- kystorms, on 11/21/2008, -6/+15ummm, this is such a long shot its not even worth thinking on, and even if the DNA they got was 25 percent quality, wow... what purpose would it serve to reintroduce a species that died off due to natural selection?
- huff51, on 11/21/2008, -0/+8are you terrified of twins?
- RobotBuddha, on 11/22/2008, -0/+8Because they're another sentient species? How long have humans dreamed of actually being able to speak to another species. Sure, they're pretty closely related. But different enough by far that there's an amazing treasure there in terms of being able to better understand the very nature of consciousness.
I mean, right now we're pretty much stuck with a sample of one. You can't really understand something when you're trying to study the subject using the subject. Another species able to actually communicate with us about how they see the world, how they talk and reason. It'd be the holy grail of understanding what it is to be human and to be sentient. - inactive, on 11/21/2008, -0/+7It wouldn't be a clone if one hadn't existed before.
But if we are going to engineer an animal like this, can we make it glow in the dark and have wings? - harrisbradley, on 11/21/2008, -0/+7As long as we only make female Neanderchimp, and they are all kept on an isolated island that is only visited by small groups of people at a time who are low on food and weapons. Oh, yeah, and TONS of electrical fencing.
- keloyd, on 11/21/2008, -0/+7Are we one hand-wringing scientific ethical conversation away from all getting monkey butlers? in little tuxedoes and bowler hats? Arthur C. Clarke predicted cooking and cleaning type work would be taken over by genetically modified helper monkeys by the mid 21st century.
- spepin, on 11/21/2008, -0/+7Woah, wooly mammoth clones. Amazing.
- UK4Life58, on 11/21/2008, -0/+7All sexually reproducing organisms have an egg somewhere in their reproductive cycle, in a mammal's case (the tiger) they would extract tiger DNA from the egg (carried by the female) that is going to be fertilized by the sperm to become a zygote and replace it with the DNA of the sabre-tooth. This is how Dolly was made, except they just used lamb DNA instead of a different species.
- ShadowofAres, on 11/22/2008, -1/+8And over generations, they shall evolve into a single super-species, the Raptor Jesus.
- Metasquares, on 11/22/2008, -0/+7If that's their goal, they're wasting their time. It still won't convince the non-believers. Nothing will.
- wollsmosh, on 11/22/2008, -0/+6Actually they make animals that glow in the dark routinely in labs. The guy that made technology won a nobel prize for it. It's an extremely useful tool.
Edit: that's no sarcasm btw, it really is useful for marking stuff. - dasvoldus, on 11/21/2008, -2/+8seconded
- HeavyDose, on 11/21/2008, -2/+8NO! This is playing GOD! ...oh wait, so is killing people... full speed ahead with cave-chimp!
- positron, on 11/22/2008, -0/+6You do realize we survived through the same Ice Age, right?
- inactive, on 11/22/2008, -1/+7I thought they died out because of the ice age and *****. Lets see how we do with our own ice age before we start claiming the "best *****" prize.
- THEchemisTREE, on 11/22/2008, -1/+7The better question is would you clone a manbearpig? Because I would...
- HeavyDose, on 11/22/2008, -0/+5Nobody is advocating that we outlaw religion, just that we embrace common sense. (or maybe you're just kidding, I'm not sure...)
- mordeci, on 11/22/2008, -0/+5"A pioneering Russian scientist tried to make human-chimpanzee hybrids in the 1920s"
At least that's what he said he was doing, after he was caught screwing a chimp. - dylio, on 11/21/2008, -2/+7We have the technology, we can build him.
- inactive, on 11/21/2008, -0/+5I remember how ridiculous it sounded when George Bush mentioned "human animal hybrids" in the SOTU speech. For the religious right this has been a real moral and political issue for a while, and though it seemed ridiculous in the past, I think the time is approaching when the world must take this seriously as an ethical issue. No idea where I come down on this, but it's probably worth thinking about.
- dntn31, on 11/21/2008, -1/+6Yes, but only for the lulz.
- VitriolAndAngst, on 11/22/2008, -0/+5Your point is great.
We don't want to "Play God" when it could help someone. But it's damned OK if we want to wipe out whatever enemy on a battlefield. - saranagati, on 11/21/2008, -0/+5"A pioneering Russian scientist tried to make human-chimpanzee hybrids in the 1920s" W.T.F.
If you think thats insane, some russian scientist kept a severed dogs head alive (and responding to stimuli) for something like 2 weeks. And if i remember right, this was pre 1950. - rustintable, on 11/22/2008, -1/+6They had bigger brains than us.
Some suggest they were just less aggressive.
Like a better version of us. - cigrainger, on 11/22/2008, -1/+6Yes we can!
- RobotBuddha, on 11/22/2008, -0/+5They're from a different genetic branch. So they're not really more primitive versions of us, instead of their own thing. If I recall correctly, and I might not, our own species was pretty similar to the modern day variety at the point neanderthals died off. For all we know, it's quite possible they'd actually be smarter than we are. The neurology that's selected against at one point might be an advantage in another. Their artwork suggests against that, but it's just one of a million questions cloning them would help answer.
- lopla, on 11/21/2008, -0/+5["A pioneering Russian scientist tried to make human-chimpanzee hybrids in the 1920s" W.T.F.]
And the experimention went further than that. See Bush family involvement with Nazi scientists.. GEORGE BUSH there is no denying he is a humanzee. - gatorfree, on 11/22/2008, -1/+6I think they've been doing this for years and introducing the progeny into Florida.
- drachemorder, on 11/21/2008, -0/+5You don't know what you're talking about. Current Christian thinking is that Neanderthals were 100% human, just a different racial type that's a bit outside the normal range of modern human variation.
- rustintable, on 11/22/2008, -1/+5You win.
- lebondarken, on 11/22/2008, -1/+5third...ed
- rustintable, on 11/22/2008, -0/+4Why do you have a thing for female neanderchimps?
- AndrewMoyer, on 11/21/2008, -1/+5Actually the cells in our body clone themselves continuously... cloning itself is actually quite natural.
- alpharaptor, on 11/22/2008, -0/+4life will find a way...
- ShadowofAres, on 11/22/2008, -0/+4And yet, one is alive today and one isn't. Interesting how the world works, isn't it?
- TunaFishGangsta, on 11/22/2008, -1/+5edit: Yeah, I think we should bring back neanderthals
- inactive, on 11/22/2008, -0/+4your first sentence is self-contradictory: were they equal or unequal?
- NotYourProdigy, on 11/22/2008, -1/+5***** it, sure.
- davori, on 11/22/2008, -1/+5I'd be all for the cloning of a neanderthal, but the problem lies with the upbringing also. How are you going to stop the media frenzy? Who is going to be the mother? Will the embryo be viable in the human uterine environment?Will our ***** Sapien upbringing methods essential make the Neanderthal one of us? Behaviour is highly linked to environment, its not purely genetic.
The most likely development will be use of the Neanderthal genome to study specific sequences, insertion into current models etc. Hey, maybe they were far more resistant to HIV and tumours than we are? Maybe they were less resistant? Posing the question why is this the case? Lots of stuff to be found out, so a promising future for geneticists. I'll stick to my Neuroscience though :D - RobotBuddha, on 11/22/2008, -0/+4I think it's a bit of a stretch to say that's the christian viewpoint, rather than a viewpoint which some christians hold. I've heard a lot of christians who believe Neanderthals were half human, half demon offspring of fallen angels. Who were tempted to earth by how hot our human women were.
- netneutrality, on 11/22/2008, -0/+4Whether we "should" or not is irrelevant. Even if you outlaw research in this field, some team of scientists, somewhere in the world, is going to start doing it anyway eventually, so we should be ready for it when it happens.
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