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Would you do this?

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Lifer
It is the distant future and cloning has become a common practice. With advances in technology and medicine, scientist and doctors are able to clone any human body in its current form. The clone would remain frozen until a needed period in the future. They are able to transform the contents of your brain into a cloned body in cases where your natural body has died. How many here would do it?
 
I'd make a couple clones of my wife and have wild all night sex parties..

YEAH BABY!

j/k

Nah I wouldn't do it. Life is life. It has to run it's course.
 
I'd do it. I realize that immortality gets boring, and all the people you befriend fade away in a blink of an eye, but I'd rather control the time of my own death.
 
Originally posted by: Howard
I'd do it. I realize that immortality gets boring, and all the people you befriend fade away in a blink of an eye, but I'd rather control the time of my own death.
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Cloning does not give one control over death.
 
wasn't there an article recently about a mammal who was cloned didn't even grow up to look like its original ? Not even the color of the fur...
 
i think that i would keep getting new parts if something gave out but not an entire new body. i'm too proud of my scars to get rid of them. eventually i'd hope for massive organ failure and die, just not too soon.
 
Originally posted by: paruhd0x
Live forever? Fine by me.

Reminds me of Azguard on SG-1
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And the Asgard are also a dying race. They've been copying the same template now for thousands of years. The 'data' has degraded to the point where it almost unrecoverable.
 
Originally posted by: rh71
wasn't there an article recently about a mammal who was cloned didn't even grow up to look like its original ? Not even the color of the fur...
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I think that was a calico cat. The fur pattern was different. I think that's one of those things that's just random, and not genetically determined. Like your fingerprints on your clone would be different (I think).
 
Doubt it. I don't really want to be alive right now, so I probably wouldn't want to live for some extended period. I don't believe that consciousness can be transfered like that anyway.
 
Originally posted by: flashbacck
Originally posted by: rh71
wasn't there an article recently about a mammal who was cloned didn't even grow up to look like its original ? Not even the color of the fur...
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I think that was a calico cat. The fur pattern was different. I think that's one of those things that's just random, and not genetically determined. Like your fingerprints on your clone would be different (I think).
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I think fingerprints are genetically encoded but for cats, fur color is a result of the environment. Perhaps there is a study done on the differences between separated identical twins?

 
Originally posted by: Antoneo
Originally posted by: flashbacck
Originally posted by: rh71
wasn't there an article recently about a mammal who was cloned didn't even grow up to look like its original ? Not even the color of the fur...
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I think that was a calico cat. The fur pattern was different. I think that's one of those things that's just random, and not genetically determined. Like your fingerprints on your clone would be different (I think).
Click to expand...
I think fingerprints are genetically encoded but for cats, fur color is a result of the environment. Perhaps there is a study done on the differences between separated identical twins?
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I thought human identical twins had different fingerprints? That's what makes me think it's something environmental or random.
 
Originally posted by: Wallydraigle
Doubt it. I don't really want to be alive right now, so I probably wouldn't want to live for some extended period. I don't believe that consciousness can be transfered like that anyway.
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What do you mean? Consciousness could just be pushed onto a stack and then poped off into a new organizm!

I would do it!
 
the thing with calico cats is the lyon hypothesis... which is random (inactivation of the X chromosome).

edit: and i don't think they've figured out the age problem in cloning entire animals yet (involves telomeres), that's why "Dolly" was born old.
 
Originally posted by: flashbacck
Originally posted by: Antoneo
Originally posted by: flashbacck
Originally posted by: rh71
wasn't there an article recently about a mammal who was cloned didn't even grow up to look like its original ? Not even the color of the fur...
Click to expand...

I think that was a calico cat. The fur pattern was different. I think that's one of those things that's just random, and not genetically determined. Like your fingerprints on your clone would be different (I think).
Click to expand...
I think fingerprints are genetically encoded but for cats, fur color is a result of the environment. Perhaps there is a study done on the differences between separated identical twins?
Click to expand...

I thought human identical twins had different fingerprints? That's what makes me think it's something environmental or random.
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Ooh, you're right. A quick search on google revealed it. But they said it appeared to be a bit of both environmental and genetics. I gots lots to learn. 😀

 
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