For Sale... Human - BigBlueBall

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January 4, 2003 at 5:05 pm #13841

rustedtight
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For Sale.
Female, Clone, Name: Eve, b. Jan 2003, white, unwanted plaything.
Be the first to own a unique human.
Offers accepted. Owner changing address. Apply:- Rachel Raelian.
Also available: used maternity clothes.

Sign of the times?

January 4, 2003 at 5:12 pm #98826

Jeff Hester
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quote:Be the first to own a unique human

Err, aren’t clones supposed to be exact copies??
So a clone cannot be unique 🙂

January 5, 2003 at 6:15 am #98834

rustedtight
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Should we dispense with the word ‘lonely’ simply because there is more than one being on this planet?

Being the only clone, it is unique.

January 5, 2003 at 7:41 am #98835

Anna
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Wasn’t Eve born last December? I’m pretty sure she was. I remember reading about it the day the news was released. Eve’s parents have refused to go on with DNA testing so we actually don’t know if she’s an exact replicate of her mother.
Eve is no longer the only “supposed” clone alive. Clonaid released more today. I’m just not buying it without any DNA testing being done.

Clonaid – housing earth’s unwanted emo children since 1997.

January 6, 2003 at 2:56 pm #98833

rustedtight
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Clonaid………. assembly line babies, order yours today. 30 day waranty.

January 6, 2003 at 5:19 pm #98829

Jeff Hester
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Anyone seen the movie Gattaca[/ur] starring Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman? It came out in 1997, and wasn’t a huge hit in the theater, but it’s a great movie and I highly recommend renting it if you haven’t seen it yet. It deals with a perhaps-not-so-distant future where the vast majority of children are genetically engineered to be smarter, stronger, disease resistant, better looking, etc. Hawke’s character was conceived naturally in a moment of passion, putting him at a disadvantage in this world. He’s not as tall, not as naturally intelligent, needs glasses to see properly… you get the picture. It paints a chilling picture of the risks of genetic manipulation from a psychological and socialogical perspective.

January 7, 2003 at 6:01 am #98832

rustedtight
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quote: Anyone seen the movie

Yes, a fabulous movie I saw it twice now and would watch it again.
Chilling.

From another point of view……. Does this now make the male superfluous? The gene pool now does not require him.
Hmm, I guess now I better learn how to mow the lawn and change a auto tire.

January 7, 2003 at 6:55 am #98828

Jeff Hester
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Ouch! I resemble that remark. Of course, we’ll always be useful as the butt of jokes.

January 7, 2003 at 7:38 am #98831

rustedtight
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quote: Ouch! I resemble that remark. Of course, we’ll always be useful as the butt of jokes.

Oh my, what next? blond guy jokes?
OK while you can snuggle and make cold nites at home interesting I guess we should keep y’all around.

January 7, 2003 at 9:01 pm #98837

sciencefeeling
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Hi all!!!
Avoiding the War of Sexes, I have to say that Gattaca was a big hit on the theaters here in Europe (or at least in Spain), I watched it twice so far.
And going back to the topic, I heard the news once in Spain. Ethically I think it does not have any justification for anybody to create a clon. I don’t know if it is legal over there, but there is definitely legislation here about this, it is ilegal (not to mention ethics, morals, and risks for the created being), do you guys know about the legislation in USA???, isn’t there a legislation there?, If so…why do they announce it as a success?
NG

January 7, 2003 at 10:23 pm #98827

Jeff Hester
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Welcome back, Natalia! Yes, cloning humans is illegal here in the U.S. as well.

I tend to believe this Cloneaid thing is a hoax and nothing more than an huge publicity stunt for a wacko organization.

January 7, 2003 at 10:30 pm #98836

magistyk
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Cloning would really throw our civilization out of order. There would be clones everywhere and imagine the side-effects if something went wrong… Parents would be devastated.

http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,57095,00.html

January 8, 2003 at 6:52 am #98830

rustedtight
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quote: Parents would be devastated.

Parents? kinda insulting to parents dont you think? in all cases there is only one ‘donor’ contributing to the cell base for a clone.

The compost bins of the cloner’s labs are already full of ‘mistakes’, dont you find it interesting that even ‘Dolly’ the sheep has never been repeated? When its not able to be repeated with a sheep why risk humanity? where are your morals?
I would like to believe that as Jeff said… its a hoax by a group of weirdo’s.:eek:
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