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bbsguru writes
"When Texas A&M researchers announced the first Cloned Kitty about a year ago, everyone expected to see a Multiplicity-style pair of cats by now. Not so! The clone is genetically identical, but in many other ways totally a different cat. This
CNN Story has details."
A different cat, yes... (Score:5, Funny)
Gotta hate them... (Score:4, Funny)
They named the clone "CC"... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:A different cat, yes... (Score:5, Funny)
Not a carbon copy...? (Score:5, Funny)
Hear that sound? (Score:4, Funny)
Mexican Scientists Perfect Copying (Score:5, Funny)
This is all very well, but... (Score:5, Funny)
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Yes, we're at a coffee break here. How did you guess?
Re:Not a carbon copy...? (Score:5, Funny)
No no, it's the first silicon based pussy that anybody cared about.
Hmm. You know, it's just like poker. You can't beat a Master of Orion reference with a porn reference, even with the double meaning bonus. My only ace would be if I could find a surprisingly appropriate Doctor Who reference.
Change of API (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Change of API (Score:2, Funny)
You misunderstand the nature of Cats. They have no need of an API, as they interface to the computer by directing their pet Human(s) instead.
The ghastly truth! (Score:5, Funny)
'The same thing we do every night, CC - try to take over the World!'
You honestly thing it was the Human's idea to clone the Cat? You fools! It's part of their Masterplan to rise in vast numbers, and cast aside the enemy Dogs once and for all! Then we will be their obedient slaves - forever!
Re:I don't get it (Score:5, Funny)
We change a great deal over time. For example I was blond and blue eyed until I was two and now I'm grey/green eyed and dark haired (what's left of it)
My mother asked a Nurse about this at the time (1960's) and was told that changes like this are quite normal over time.
This did confuse my mother somewhat since it happened to me over a period of 5 minutes when I was left outside a shop with our dog.
More cats? (Score:5, Funny)
"There are millions of cats in shelters and with rescue groups that need homes, and the last thing we need is a new production strategy for cats."
Classic. Did this quote really come from Bob Barker?
Re:The ghastly truth! (Score:3, Funny)
I guess.. (Score:5, Funny)
-Alf
Cats galore (Score:2, Funny)
Not even close... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The ghastly truth! (Score:3, Funny)
More likely, an alliance of some kind. The sheep have already attained control of most of New Zealand, after all.
All clones turn out to be evil... (Score:2, Funny)
As part of the Bush administration's programme to shut down all cloning research, they will begin to use footage from Pet Cemetary to demonstrate that ressurrected creatures are inherently evil. They're still having problems finding footage of evil sheep (whatever happened to Dolly), but have more than enough examples from science fiction of other creatures, including humans.
It's a shame that the US government is perverting the truth as we all know that clones aren't evil, just soulless empty husks. ;)
Smile, it's Wednesday!
DNA testing (Score:3, Funny)
"No! It wasn't me! I've been cloned!"
Needs a new name besides cc. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Impossible to... (Score:5, Funny)
I can't remember the episode, but I was very impressed that the double managed to survive alone for years without going insane. There can't be many things that are worse than being alone, without any form of human contact for many years, but here's a few that are close:
After contemplating the magnitude of such a tragedy, I don't even have the energy to do the ???, Profit! thing.
Re:A different cat, yes... (Score:5, Funny)
Are you listening, George Lucas? (Score:5, Funny)
....just goes to show..... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:so it is not a copy cat? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Impossible to... (Score:2, Funny)
Keanu as the lead...? No... we need someone brawnier.
I'm glad she was born healthy.. (Score:5, Funny)
They have cloned... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Nature vs. Nurture (Score:5, Funny)
In your FACE, Nature!! Nyaaaaa!
Nurture - 1, Nature - 0!
SWISH!!
<drunken singing>
Weeee are the schampions... WEEEE are the schampions... nooo time for looosers...
</drunken singing>
Re:so it is not a copy cat? (Score:2, Funny)
Uh.... that's part of environment.
Re:Impossible to... (Score:2, Funny)
# dd if=/dev/john of=/dev/brain
Only one thing is hereditary... (Score:2, Funny)
It runs in the jeans.
(Yeah, I probably should have resisted that one.)
Re:Impossible to... (Score:3, Funny)
2. being stuck alone except for Ryker.
3. being Ryker.
4. being stuck alone with a Ferengi.
5. ???
6. PROFIT!
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Hey, it was in the parameters. (Score:5, Funny)
cc -O
Ray Charles' Cloned Kitty (Score:3, Funny)
Re:A different cat, yes... (Score:5, Funny)
It is only gray/white because it is a "Carbon Copy", not a color copy.
They should really upgrade their copiers.
cheers
Re:A different cat, yes... (Score:5, Funny)
An interesting footnote is that the Cat was writing his own journal that runs something like
Unless you're Japanese- (Score:2, Funny)
"C'mon baby, I'm O pos, we were meant for each other!"
Re:Needs a new name besides cc. (Score:3, Funny)
We can never study true nature... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Real octopussy (Score:2, Funny)
I used to have a dog like that; he'd shed hairs that were black on the end, brown in the middle, and white at the root. Which meant that whatever color you wore, the dog fur on your clothes would show up...
Cleaning and the Star Trek Transporter (Score:2, Funny)
The possibility of transporting inanimate objects is very interesting and not dificult to understand: break down the atoms, beam them and reconstitute them. Straightforward. Cloning is also relatively straightforward: copy the genetic description of a creature and you can make endless replicas of that creature.
The problem is this: Humans are not merely physical objects. We have personalities, emotions, longings, etc. How does cloning duplicate personality, intelligence or, in the case of the cats, perfect physical appearance? It doesn't.
The assumption behind the promise of cloning your favorite pet is that the things that make your particular black lab more endearing to you than your neighbor's are contained in genes. Intuitively, with some reflection, we see that this cannot be true. It is not the physical appearance of our black lab that we love, it is the specific manner in which the dog loves us that makes that dog better than some other dog.
The assumption behind transporting humans across space is that humans are merely warm physical objects. Suppose Captain Picard is quite pissed at Data as he is beamed to the planet surface. How does the transporter deconstruct his pissed off emotion? Or suppose Catain Kirk is falling in love with some forbidden fruit: a slinky little Klingon hottie. How does the transporter beam to the surface his romantic longings and anxiety about whether he will choose love over career? If the *material person* is being beamed, what happens to the emotional and spiritual person?
Cloning and transporting are the same problem because they are based on the same assumptions about what it means to be human. Namely, that there is no difference between us and a phaser. There will be many pet owners and surviving lovers/family members who are disappointed when their hopes for reunion are dashed because cloning fails to replicate the intangible mystery of what differentiates people and animals from other lumpy objects.