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Practical Uses for Cloning
Topic Started: May 9 2009, 09:55 AM (1,362 Views)
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I was sure that they were opposed to it, because they still "exploited" animals to get cells. 10 minutes of people faffing about a animal and the prick of a needle are very important social issues, while the ethnic cleansing in Burma is nothing to worry about.
But PETA and groups like them love changing policy and opinions back and forth.

Meat in vats was something Churchill wrote about in-between wars, and I think it will eventually be very important. Of course at the moment we only really have frog flavoured goo, but it is a start.
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Fifty years hence, we shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium.


That's the quote I think.
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Not just a a quote, but his whole article about 1982.
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Yeah, I think I read that. Weren't they talking about leaving the still living chunk of tissue from an organism suspended in a nutrient bath, then the cells would continue to replicate continuously? Or am I thinking of something else?
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I think so, back then their was a chunk of chicken heart tissue that was thriving and had to be cut back to stop it from filling its Petri dish, but to this date the experiment cannot be repeated.
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1. It can be done to a limit.

2. The reason we can't recreate the indefinite growth is because we don't have all the information on the original procedure, and we can't figure out how that scientist did it.
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Perhaps we don't. I think it is more likely that it was a strange heart he too the tissue from, everything else in subsequent experiments was the same, though there may be some things we don't know about.
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What about a clone workforce or a clone army? Personally, I think there are robots that do a lot better job destroying the incomming plasma tanks or building a new aquarium center. Plus there could be many moral issues with using mentally-numbed clones for doing all of the work.
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Why is it that people think clones would be good for menial labour? They are people and would all be different.
The only advantage to a clone army would be that the enemy could kill all your army with bioweapon tailored to affect mainly them, and so they could conquer with minimal civilian casualties.
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Yeah. Even they are based on the genetic code of one great worker, they will not be exactly the same as their clonal father, as mutations do occur when an embryo develops I think. Besides, people just love what they do for a career, it be building skyscrapers or serving in the army, so there is no need for clones who cannot even enjoy what they do and are basically mental robots.
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