Year of the Clone
"First Cloned Cat has Kittens." And before that, two later-cloned wild cats had kittens. Real-life biology has once again passed science fiction. Some of you trekkers/trekkies might remember that in the original Star Trek's vision of two or three centuries from now, cloning was wraught with problems, often including infertility. Well, the future ain't what it used to be.
Now, in the early 21st century, cloning can not only be used to produce pets, which can bear normal offspring, it's been approved by the American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for cloning cattle. Not long from now, you might be feeding cat food made from cloned beef to your cloned cat, while you enjoy a cloned T-bone steak with your second spouse, cloned from your late first, who is bottle-feeding your cloned baby with cloned milk.
(Remember that a clone is like an identical twin, it is NOT the same person or animal. That would require brain-taping and copying, which we don't have--yet.)
Read more about the cloned cat at http://apnews.myway.com/article/20061215/D8M126280.html and about the FDA's view on cloned beef at http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/12/28/cloned.food.ap/index.html.
Comments
Hey, what about a cloned president? George W. Bush could serve two terms, then George W. Bush Clone serve two terms, then George W. Bush Cloned Again could serve another two terms, ad infinitum. Remind me when that happens to move to, um?
Posted by: Rev. Bootie | January 9, 2007 03:58 AM
RE: Rev. Bootie's comment about cloning George W. Bush so we'll have Bush for another dozen years:
Excuse me while I run screaming into the night.
Posted by: Reverend Loveshade | January 10, 2007 03:09 AM
In Seattle women who sit on men's laps on buses or trains without placing a pillow between them face an automatic six-month jail term. Now what if a woman sat on a man's lap and the man was really her sex-changed clone? Could she be in trouble for sitting on herself?
Posted by: Me Bad 4u | January 10, 2007 08:06 AM
Star Trek TOS also had cell phones that couldn't do pictures. But hey, that was the 1960s.
If cloned cows are safe, what's the beef?
Posted by: Binky The WonderSkull | January 11, 2007 05:01 AM
Cloning will revolutionize the world, just like antibiotics and X-rays did. Brave New World indeed.
Posted by: Del Timmons | January 18, 2007 10:07 PM
Nobody's cloning my pussy!
Posted by: Untroubled Teen | January 25, 2007 09:16 PM
Hey, I'd buy your cloned pussy for a dollar. Here kitty kitty!
Posted by: Rev. Bootie | January 28, 2007 05:04 AM