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2007-06-27 Science & Technology

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Posted by McZoid 2007-06-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 They never disappeared. They are the sub-species known as politicians.

Posted by 3dc 2007-06-27 00:53|| 2007-06-27 00:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Aren't there enough islamists?

Posted by Alistaire Flinese5126 2007-06-27 00:55|| 2007-06-27 00:55|| Front Page Top

#3 Clone Neanderthals?

Sure! why not? It'll give the muzzies something to aspire to...

Posted by CrazyFool 2007-06-27 00:57|| 2007-06-27 00:57|| Front Page Top

#4 "If we learn this is a species that was wrongly pushed off the stage of history, there is something of a moral argument for bringing it back,"

It's called survival of the fittest you ignorant simpleton!

We survived! They didn't! That's not right nor wrong, it just IS!!!

This person is an ignorant fool, not a scientist.

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2007-06-27 01:19|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2007-06-27 01:19|| Front Page Top

#5 Hey, sure, yewbetcha. What could possibly go wrong?

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-06-27 01:27|| 2007-06-27 01:27|| Front Page Top

#6 There were some interesting hints a year or so ago (NYT article, IIRC) that RNA played a larger role than expected in heredity. That makes sense: the egg cell's RNA is also present, and could be important in how the DNA is expressed. If so, then the first generation cross-species clone would not quite be the real McCoy; you'd have to breed the clones together to get something close to the original. (Assuming you didn't get mules)

In any event, Dartmouth should fire Green and hire Paabo.

Posted by James">James 2007-06-27 01:51|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com]">[http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com] 2007-06-27 01:51|| Front Page Top

#7 Should We Clone Neanderthals?

No, the Dems and Rinos have enough voters.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2007-06-27 02:09|| 2007-06-27 02:09|| Front Page Top

#8 At the end of the last ice age, a great many species that evolved for the cold disappeared. Save the information, and use it to help us quickly evolve should the latest climate change fad (not global warming, but cooling! Oh noooo!!!) come about. Isaac Asimov addressed the plight of the resurrected individual in his story "The Ugly Little Boy". There's no ambiguity about how morally wrong it would be to do this.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-06-27 04:58|| 2007-06-27 04:58|| Front Page Top

#9 "If we learn this is a species that was wrongly pushed off the stage of history,..."

Bush's fault?

Posted by Mark E. 2007-06-27 07:14|| 2007-06-27 07:14|| Front Page Top

#10 They could all work for Geico.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2007-06-27 07:45|| 2007-06-27 07:45|| Front Page Top

#11 Once you clone a small group, then common decency says they deserve a place to live comparable to their original habitat.

We could give them back France.

Posted by KBK 2007-06-27 10:51|| 2007-06-27 10:51|| Front Page Top

#12 I'm trying to figure how Neanderthals were "wrongly pushed off the stage of history.

Poor immigration control.

Posted by gorb 2007-06-27 14:15|| 2007-06-27 14:15|| Front Page Top

#13 > "If we learn this is a species that was wrongly pushed off the stage of history, there is something of a moral argument for bringing it back,"

This is just an "logical" extension of the welfare state policy of supporting disgenics.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2007-06-27 20:41|| 2007-06-27 20:41|| Front Page Top

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