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Barbara Streisand has revealed that she cloned her dogs, which of course begs the question: is she using them as organ farms and if so will they break out and kill her like those clones from The Island? http://variety.com/2018/film/news/barbra-streisand-clone-dogs-samantha-1202711047/ In all seriousness, if you could bring back one of your lost pets, which one would it be? Would you clone the whole animal or see if you could combine your two favorite cats / ferrets / dogs / whatever?
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It would be a different animal that just looks like the old one. Highly unhealthy to get attached to the false idea that cloning something is bringing your lost pet back. Rule one of cloning: you're NEVER bringing your pet back. University of Queensland has been experimenting with animal cloning for a while for various reasons, and in all examples (animal in question is a seed bull that was cloned) the animals exhibited extreme mental restrictions and behavior that is extremely atypical for that animal (excavation of large holes to sleep in, sexual attraction to fences, etc.) You're making a new animal, one that is probably flawed in a bunch of ways. Personally I'd go for a Franken animal for fun.
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Feb 27, 2018 23:41
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You've copied the body, not the soul. It wouldn't be the same.
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Feb 27, 2018 23:55
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McGiggins posted:It would be a different animal that just looks like the old one. Highly unhealthy to get attached to the false idea that cloning something is bringing your lost pet back. I was also under the impression that subsequent generations of cloned animals developed big health issues due to deteriorating genes. I have not looked into cloning in a hot minute though. Khazar-khum posted:You've copied the body, not the soul. It wouldn't be the same. It is Muffy's body but the soul is that of MAMMON HIMSELF.
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Feb 28, 2018 02:56
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McGiggins posted:University of Queensland has been experimenting with animal cloning for a while for various reasons, and in all examples (animal in question is a seed bull that was cloned) the animals exhibited extreme mental restrictions and behavior that is extremely atypical for that animal (excavation of large holes to sleep in, sexual attraction to fences, etc.) Cloning pets is incredibly dumb and cruel, but I'm pretty sure that this is nonsense. From what I've heard, clones tend to be fine if they manage to survive gestation and birth. But for whatever reason clones have massive problems in the womb, and there's a huge number of lost embryos and miscarriages for every live clone created. Which is why getting a dog cloned is so goddamn stupid, as you're inflicting misery on who knows how many surrogate mother dogs and dying newborn puppies just to get one clone that's not even your same dog anyway, just a twin. But there's companies out there that will apparently do it for a cool $50,000 a dog. Welcome to the future. Sucrose fucked around with this message at 06:32 on Apr 28, 2018 |
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