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Wed 09/26/12 07:27 PM
Q: What about Darfur?
A: You get on that horse, you got to ride it.

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Fri 09/21/12 03:52 PM
What do you really mean by cloning humans? True cloning would be done entirely in a test tube acting as an artificial womb and as far as I know this is impossible. The clone would have to grow at a greatly accelerated rate if it were to ever reach the same maturity. The accelerated aging would have to be slowed to a normal aging rate, but when is a clone "born". To me circumventing any part of the life cycle from birth to adulthood to death would make a clone unqualified to be a human.

I'm assuming that by cloning you are describing a method of invitro-fertilization. The "clone" is still born as a daughter. Homozygotic twins really are clones in common parlance, but they're not identical.

(Assuming there's no magical or almost magical (chemical) process that occurs when an egg is fertilized)...
It is theoretically easier to clone a female by placing the individual's DNA into her own egg; while one would have to remove the maternal mitochondria from the egg and replace it with individual's mitochondria.

There's more to say, but I think that's enough for now.

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Fri 09/21/12 03:18 PM
It's common knowledge that either the Sage of Six Paths built the Moon, or it was once Spiral Knight Lord Genome's ship. It's also common knowledge that it's the base of the Fourth Reich.

(Someone's been reading too much manga.)