http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/science/20mammoth.html?scp=2&sq=mammoth&st=cse
That's right folks. We can do it, we have the technology. Well, almost. If you were too lazy to read the article, basically the idea is that pretty soon (hopefully) they will be able to recreate a a legit wooly mammoth egg and bring it to term in an elephant.
That's pretty cool. But, if they can do that, that means they can do it with neanderthals in humans (or chimps) too.
The question is, do you think we should?
On the one hand, there are a lot of good reasons to for the advancement of science.
On the other hand, humanoid cloning might present many ethical problems. Who wins?
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this is really cool, it says it's still pretty far away though. I'm completely ok with us doing it though. Some people may argue that it might bring "death and destruction" similar to us going through the industrial revolution without "thinking ahead".
But in reality, humans learn by suffering and are driven by curiosity and I am fully in support of this painful yet fun way of learning. I don't think anything is immoral about this technology, it hurts no one now and unless somebody can have a legitimate reason that this will hurt him more than anybody else, we should not object (if everybody/majority thinks it's painful, then we "shouldn't do it"...although minority can always go ahead and do it anyways if they have curiosity + resources). So bring me a mammoth steak sir!
mammoth = cool!
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