Cloning

[Revival]

Another topic for the Black Project forum -- a topic for the veterans to discuss.

Do you think cloning is a good or bad thing? What are your opinions on the subject? Revolutionary? Awful?

[Xantar]

Depends what you're cloning. An entire organism? Probably not. A single organ? Sure, I can support that.

For the rest, see my post in Ric's topic in the General Forum.

[Revival]

An entire organism, like a cat or a sheep.

[Gamer]

I think that it is a good thing, not a good thing to clone, but a good thing to have the technology to do so at our disposal. I think it is somewhat bad if you use it for bad purposes such as cloning peole to train to be hitmen or something. But i think it would be useful in a war or something... (an army of clones :D) I also think it would be good because if say your dog got hit by a car and died, then you could clone it and have the same dog, that would be sweet.

[Revival]

Originally posted by gamer
I also think it would be good because if say your dog got hit by a car and died, then you could clone it and have the same dog, that would be sweet.
Not quite. When you close something like a dog, it doesn't have the same memory. Hell, the cat they cloned doesn't even has the same colors as the original, it's all different. All you would get is a close physical resemblance -- not mental. Also, the physical resemblance isn't going to be exact all the time.

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Also, cloning isn't something that we have at our disposal, it's only been done a few times, and it's nowhere near perfect. Cloning is something that has come a long way and still has a long way to go. Now, I don't see the need in cloning an animal or a human -- you only get a physical "copy", not mental, so what's the real point? I can see cloning, for instance say, a body part. Clone a heart and you can do a heart transfer, stuff like that has a purpose.

Also, there is something that I have unanswered, and that I don't know -- maybe nobody knows yet. But say if you were to clone a 40 year old adult male. Would you have to teach him how to walk, talk, eat, drive, and do everything all over again? Even if you could, would their brain capacity be one of a 40 year old man, or a newborn? Would it take him 8 years to lean all his, or 8 weeks? There's still a lot of unanswered questions about cloning, so I'm still really open to debate on my opinion.

[Xantar]

Originally posted by Shooter
Also, there is something that I have unanswered, and that I don't know -- maybe nobody knows yet. But say if you were to clone a 40 year old adult male. Would you have to teach him how to walk, talk, eat, drive, and do everything all over again? Even if you could, would their brain capacity be one of a 40 year old man, or a newborn? Would it take him 8 years to lean all his, or 8 weeks? There's still a lot of unanswered questions about cloning, so I'm still really open to debate on my opinion.

Yes, you would have to teach him everything again. No, he wouldn't have the brain capacity of a 40 year old man (at least not until he's 40 years old). There really aren't a lot of unanswered scientific questions about cloning, and those you mentioned most certainly aren't some of the unanswered ones.

When you learn about DNA, you will find that it only dictates what you are born with and what you are capable of. The rest is up to your environment.

[Revival]

Well thanks Xantar, that helps me out a lot.. I'm really interested in these topics like cloning and DNA and such.. I'm going to look and see what courses I might be able to take later on in High School that might give me more exposure to this.