Originally Posted by 2worlds

Just to clarify, people seem to have this misconception about cloning. It's not like you enter a chamber and outside of another chamber comes another exact version of you, same age, same hair, etc. To my best understanding, and maybe someone can help expand/correct me on this, what happens is they take a sample of your DNA then go through the process of making life. In other words, the clone still has to go through the stages of life, fetus, baby, etc. but it should be an exact DNA replica of the clone-e. As to looking and thinking like the clone-e, that would be hard to replicate since part of the way you look/think is how you were raised. I have piercings/tattoos because I grew up on the counter-culture, but maybe my clone will experience a different raising and have different beliefs.

Originally Posted by T0ribush

The idea of warping across space requires a clone. They put you into a chamber, than create an exact replica of you on the other side of the galaxy, Memories, thought and experience intact, but they destroy the original.

Originally Posted by hanz0

I didn't realize that people's genomes were public domain now.

Originally Posted by hanz0

I didn't realize that cloning created someone the same age as you.


... What?


"I didn't realize that cloning created someone the same age as you."


I didn't realize that people's genomes were public domain now.

Originally Posted by Nigma

Let's say they were to clone someone , all they'd clone is the body , which would have no soul . Essentially making it an empty vessel , which could be possessed by a demon.

You can try and split hairs here all day if you want, but ultimately you're denigrating religious people as having inferior thought processes to yourself, and it's pretty childish to defend such an idea.

Originally Posted by Nigma

This could only result in something bad/corrupt in my opinion.
Let's say they were to clone someone , all they'd clone is the body , which would have no soul . Essentially making it an empty vessel , which could be possessed by a demon.
Probably sounds far fetched to the majority of you but i happen to be somewhat of a Christian - even though i hardly attend church anymore - but this is something i've heard being spoken about many times , and i do believe in God, i know there's a satan and i also believe there's a place called Heaven and one called hell.

Given this startling new information I guess cloning is no more risky than owning a Springer Spaniel.

^ Means it might be illegal. Doesn't mean it wouldn't be doable. Mofos could easily steal some DNA for their own usage from someone of their choosing, especially if he's retired and / or living normally. Probably from celebs too, if perpetrators got what it takes.

Originally Posted by Zoro

hanz0, the master of strawmanning people's arguments.

Originally Posted by NinjaVodou

Also, you could take anyone's DNA from hair, saliva or tissue and it's not illegal. And if some rich family took said dna from a genius and raised it as their child... it wouldn't be their child it would be more of an adopted child.

Originally Posted by Ele

Imprisonment, I suppose. I don't see why a rich family would steal the DNA and risk it though, when they could probably find a genius donor easily enough.

In a way we have this to an extent already. Think sperm banks.

Mouse cloning is different from cloning in farm animals or other large animals in terms of
the protocols for preparing donor cells.