DUST Search - Has anyone pondered thoughts about the clones?

Jason Pearson wrote:

If we're on about the real life possibilities, then yes, I've pondered it a lot.
It's one of the reasons I'm studying Biology, that and prosthetics.

One of the questions I ask myself a lot (and a few buds of mine) is if we ever reached a stage of cheap cloning for everyone, how would it affect us? Think of this, if our world is heavily populated now and we had the ability to stop death through cloning, our population would be much greater, so we would probably ban having children or create infertile clones so that we could never have children through normal means.

Whilst that is a sad note, imagine being able to live forever. I believe this would be a wonderful thing, the ability to travel the universe forever would be something I'd do, the ability to become a better person through experience and knowledge, learning something new everyday til the end of the universe itself is something I wish I could do.

Who knows, maybe we have the possibility? I mean, it was only a few years ago people watched things like Star Trek, awed by their little communication devices and well, look what we have now.. mobiles, everywhere. The Sci-Fi genre in television and gaming helps inspire us and eventually we'll probably get there.


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Maken Tosch Planetary Response Organisation Test Friends Please Ignore 1591	Posted - 2012.10.27 02:22:00 - [1] - Quote Jason Pearson wrote: If we're on about the real life possibilities, then yes, I've pondered it a lot. It's one of the reasons I'm studying Biology, that and prosthetics. One of the questions I ask myself a lot (and a few buds of mine) is if we ever reached a stage of cheap cloning for everyone, how would it affect us? Think of this, if our world is heavily populated now and we had the ability to stop death through cloning, our population would be much greater, so we would probably ban having children or create infertile clones so that we could never have children through normal means. Whilst that is a sad note, imagine being able to live forever. I believe this would be a wonderful thing, the ability to travel the universe forever would be something I'd do, the ability to become a better person through experience and knowledge, learning something new everyday til the end of the universe itself is something I wish I could do. Who knows, maybe we have the possibility? I mean, it was only a few years ago people watched things like Star Trek, awed by their little communication devices and well, look what we have now.. mobiles, everywhere. The Sci-Fi genre in television and gaming helps inspire us and eventually we'll probably get there. 1. You are assuming that at this stage of technological development (perfecting cloning technology) we are still stuck on this planet and our space program has barely sent anyone back to the moon. I'm confident that by then we will have already colonized the moon and Mars. Thus allowing the population to safely grow until we have no choice but to advance further to other stars. 2. I wouldn't imagine living forever in a materialistic universe. Being a spiritual person myself (Gnostic) I would rather live forever through the spirit that needs nothing than through the body that needs something. But that's a topic reserved for another kind of forum as I don't want to start a debate about that here. For the record, in case anyone asks, I'm NOT the kind of person who shoves religion down anyone's throat. 3. I remember watching the Stargate: SG-1 series (I own almost all ten seasons on DVD) and see the Asgard use cloning technology as their only means of keeping their race alive after they somehow lost their reproductive abilities. Sadly, they committed mass suicide once the cloning process could not be fixed and their remaining clone reserves were too degenerated for continued use. Humans then inherited their technology and all their knowledge and works in the hopes that Humans would learn a harsh lesson from this. I will miss you all, little grey men.