Cloning

[pavliko]

Use clones as soldiers.
Use clones as slaves.
Use clones as your organs backup.
Make an opposite sex of yourself and let it live D: (Joking kay?)
ADDED:
Make legal porn out of them, because they are not humans and will never be..
Make everyone think that you are in many places at ones..
F12

[Espadon]

Organ backup is the only one that makes sense.

I think giving away jobs to drones is a terrible idea. I don't think I have to explain why.
If you don't understand, you're too young.

[pavliko]

You don't pay to clones, you just feed them...
Thats the idea

[demoniac93]

@bsb: There are different ways of cloning and one includes the foetus growing up in the mothers egg cell. Dolly had 3 mothers but no actual father for example.

@demoniac: People could tell you things about religion that you wouldn't like to hear and I'm no christian either even if I was christened.

Don't worry, I know all about the controversies of Christianity...

[Espadon]

Having money from jobs is important.

There is no way a clone drone scenario can avoid having jobs. Conversely, clone drone scenario takes away more jobs than it creates.

It's nice to imagine that they can lounge around and have fun but you know it will be more along the lines of several million squatters on the streets.

[10th_account]

It'd be dandy to bring back extinct animals. There's quite a lot of mosquitoes trapped in fossilized resin which could hold blood from dinosaurs! With the help of some investors, hopefully one day a park of some sort will be created where the Triceratops can roam, fencing off ferocious Velociraptors and the magnificent T-Rex. They should call it... Jumanji.

[Espadon]

I'd love that idea; an aquarium of extinct marine life would be awesome.

It's too bad it opens up new niches and it'll be impossible to control the coming and going of species that take advantage of it. Ex. new breeds of mosquitoes, flies, ticks, and pathogens.

A fenced-in island doesn't keep out the birds which have been prime vectors for many a disease. They may be especially susceptible due to the genetic similarity between birds and dinosaurs.

[p0ppin]

Anyone care to look at the economic consequences of cloning?  Will they be bought/sold, monopolized, etc?  Also, creating a clone for every person to benefit from would inherently double the worlds population, that's a LOT more mouths to feed.  How will these massive (I'm sure they will have to be) cloning labs be powered?  Obviously when there is a new product or resource created/discovered, Man will be there to make a profit off of it.

[ds dude]

I'm for it, mainly for military purposes.

[echo_trail]

Organ backup is the only one that makes sense.

I think giving away jobs to drones is a terrible idea. I don't think I have to explain why.
If you don't understand, you're too young.

That's what I was thinking. I'm not a fan of cloning of almost any kind, and while I see the potential, I think it'd be near impossible to control. Growing organs via cloning seems like the way to go, but needless to say, no one wants a The Island'ish scene.

All in all, cloning's a no go on my part.

[Espadon]

I think mass-cloning is a terrible idea, but in limited quantities, cloning may have merit. Cloning an animal to give maximum control over testing various drug effects would be an example. Cloning a single organ for a transplant - yes; growing a 'blank' human for organs - no; regardless of morality, maintaining a whole, vegetative Human for any purpose is just ridiculously inefficient.

Sorry didn't reply to your MSN Echo, was busy typing this reply.

[echo_trail]

I think mass-cloning is a terrible idea, but in limited quantities, cloning may have merit. Cloning an animal to give maximum control over testing various drug effects would be an example. Cloning a single organ for a transplant - yes; growing a 'blank' human for organs - no; regardless of morality, maintaining a whole, vegetative Human for any purpose is just ridiculously inefficient.

I agree. Although, like with genetic enhancement, this is probably an unstoppable wave that just hasn't hit us yet. The potential for profit is endless with cloning, and as soon as it becomes accepted and less of a moral issue in the eyes of the world, I expect we will see a variety of usage for the concept.

Sorry didn't reply to your MSN Echo, was busy typing this reply.

And just like that, my heart is broken 

[Espadon]

I'm reasonably sure we'll be seeing "Clone-A-Heart/Kidney/Liver" fundraisers in the future

[Psycho]

The porn industry would be all over this. Forget real dolls.

[demoniac93]

@Echo: Nuclear energy was supposed to be a revolution for humanity, and look where it's gotten us.
Cancers, terrorist threats and national tensions...etc.
I see the same thing happening with cloning, somehow it WILL find it's way into the wrong hands.
And there goes another revolution...

[DarkCrusade]

@Demoniac: Are you sure terrorism and cancer evolved from nuclear technology? The problem about is it how people use its power. If people wouldn't be led to kill with anything they invent therapeutic cloning would be the way to go.
Since there will always be some really bad German scientist it will probably be cancelled as soon as it gets allowed again..

[p0ppin]

If people wouldn't be led to kill with anything they invent

That's a big 'if' lol..

Since there will always be some really bad German scientist

Yes.. all german scientists are eeeeeeevil.. are you TRYING to troll at this point?

[echo_trail]

If people wouldn't be led to kill with anything they invent

That's a big 'if' lol..

Since there will always be some really bad German scientist

Yes.. all german scientists are eeeeeeevil.. are you TRYING to troll at this point?

His point is that many inventions, although not initially intended for harm, end up being used that way if it has the potential. And there is always gonna be some shithead state or country behind it.

[DarkCrusade]

His point is that many inventions, although not initially intended for harm, end up being used that way if it has the potential. And there is always gonna be some s**thead state or country behind it.

This and I am German myself. It's a known cliché even if what my country did in the past is comparable to what the USA did.

[Neosano]

I'm all for it. But really there's no point :-S