Today I am feeling: duplicitous

Well, all those science fiction stories you've read mighta come true, the Raëlians claim they've cloned the first human baby. I had heard a few months ago they were working on this and had hoped they'd announce it was a boy <grin> but it's not, it's a girl, which means that it might actually be a legit clone, which would be both scary and cool, especially given the uhm ... unusual beliefs of the Raëlians who think that human life was made by beings from another planet (which actually has some scientific backing, it's the seeding theory of how life began on this planet although as far as I know it doesn't involve aliens, it involves asteroids, but who knows.) In any case, it may turn out to be a hoax, but there are supposedly more human clones in the "cooker" due to be born in the next few months. We shall see what becomes of them, I remember hearing once that there's some wacky timer thing in DNA that is passed on to clones, so if you cloned using cells from say a 50 year old person, the DNA would have a timer with 50 years already on it, so even though the baby is born as an infant its DNA is already 50 years old (or thereabouts) so it'll die when the DNA timer "runs out" so the baby may only live 20-30 years. Pretty soon they'll be cloning from babies I guess if these clones don't work out. It all opens some interesting questions for parents though, now when your clone child asks who daddy is you can tell them there is no daddy and not be lying. Men may soon become obsolete muhahahaha. Oh, wait, we'll still need them for fixing the toilet and killing spiders ... at least until they make a robot that can do that.

[ 4:16:00 PM ]   Posted at the speed of blight by NONOBADKITTY!