Ok im watching The Island in my science class..well in this movie they make clones so that the real person that they made the clone for can use it for whatever like if they wanted to have a baby they could have the clone have the baby so they wouldnt have to have the baby or if u needed an organ they could get it from the clone however they kill the clone right after they get the organ or after it has the baby. Would you do this even though its like murder because they are just going to kill your clone?
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If I was to clone myself, I would do it for different reasons. There is no way that I would put my life over someone else's...at least that is how I think now...I do think it would be cool to have another one of me...My clone would have my twisted mind just with maybe some different life experiences. I think that it would be pretty cool to philosophize with my differently same self. I think that a person could really learn a lot about themselves from such an experience. Just think of what you would be about if you lived in a third world country, or lived life as a king, or you had different parents, or you eat different food, smelled different things, knew different people, or so on...I think that the answer is that there is no real knowing what you would really be about...I think that there is a lot to be said about what you could learn. They say that some people that get amnesia act completely different then before it, and with no sign of any real brain trauma...by that I mean that they are actually the same person, genes and all, just missing some of the life experiences that made them the way they were...this would go to prove that a person is completely capable of change as long as they understand that their mind is their own and all they need to do is control how it "looks" or uses its stimulus...Meaning that we are really not predisposed to be anything and all we need to do is see things the way we need to see things to become what we want to be...
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jajaja no, it would commit murder, thank God i don't have one of those killer clones huh!!
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Well, obviously you missed the Beast taking out his hairy blue shlong.  I went to see it twice just for that!!!\n\n\nWhat really happened is this.\n\nIf you recall earlier in the film a lesson that is stopped abruptly when Storm creates a cloud cover.  During that lesson the class was watching a video of a man in a hospital who had no cognitive functions, that is he couldn't think.  Xavier asked the class if it was right to transport the mind of a father of four with cancer into the body of that man.  At  the end of the film Xavier inhabits this man, and so, since the cure is only temporary, leaves the film open for another sequel.\n\nMy points are,\n\nYou never see Cyclops actually die.\nThe cure is temporary so...\n  Magneto comes back\n  Mystique comes back\n  Rogue comes back\nXavier moves into another body.\nIs there any reason Jean could not do this?\n\nThey'll cash in on another one in a few years time no doubt.
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You should use your own opinion. My personal opinion on the matter though is that cloning does not necessarily mean actually producing another one of yourself. Therapeutic cloning is the act of making a cloned embryo and extracting its stem cells before they even differentiate. The use of these stem cells in research is very valuable and has the potential to save millions of lives around the world (for reasons I opt not to get into).\n\nThus, I believe therapeutic cloning should be legal. The reproductive cloning of humans however, should remain illegal. Basically, the creation of formed embryos should be allowed, but it should be illegal to implant them so that can develop into human beings.\n\nThat's my personal point of view though. This is a highly controversial subject and you really need to research it and form an opinion of your own.
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CLONES?!!?!?! My god! I knew this day was coming. Good thing I never pee in a public toilet! That's how they get your DNA. Run for your lives people of the earth!!!!! Run for your lives!!!
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.  It's the sort of achievement that is so interesting and scientifically valuable that, if it were possible through and techniques yet developed, it would have been done; and it hasn't.\n.  If there were a tissue specimen from an extinct species which were well enough preserved that there were intact cell nuclei and intact chromosomes, it should be possible to clone a near match to the extinct animal, using an egg ell from a closely related species.  This 'clone' would not have the same mitochondrial DNA as the extinct animal, s it is not known if it would have the same metabolic performance, but it should be close enough.\n.  Unfortunately, it takes quite a lot of care to preserve cell nuclei and chromosomes.  The only extinct animals for whom such care has been taken are a few who have gone extinct while observed by scientists.  These are species which were watched closely as their population dwindled to a few individuals and, when the last few passed, tissue samples were taken in the hope that they might be cloned.  The amount of such tissue material preserved is very limited, and the time does not seem right to risk that limited tissue in an effort at cloning in which there is not yet great confidence.
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ok How is this for a scenario?\n\nBillie is on the verge of becoming evil. (we know that)\n\nWhat if Paige dies just as Billie is becoming evil and that act (Paiges dying) itself does something to Billie that makes her side w/ the charmed ones and it turns out that she is a relative (cousin or something). and Billie ends up being the 3rd to keep the power of 3 going?  Unless of course they HAVE to be sisters. \n\nThen they could at least have a basis for new eppys, until the boys grew up. I have already thought of that for a spin-off years ago (someone posted it too) Sounds like a good idea. \n\nIf nothing else maybe the charmed ones will all end up dying and Billie will stay good and raise the boys up till someone in the networks thinks of using them as a spin-off. It could also still keep the girls on at least parttime. I mean if grams can show up now and again even though she is dead; why can't they? But that poses another question? Why haven't we seen the ghost(spirit) of Prue once in awhile?Not counting the fact that Shannon and Alyssa hated each other in real life.
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Just saw the movie today. I am a Christian and wanted to see it so I knew more to answer the questions that I have been asked by friends. The hardest thing I find to comprehend is why are people being so blown away with it, when it is clear that it is a work of fiction? It is a fiction book, that has just been made into a fiction movie. Dan Brown himself states that the book was fiction and is not based on fact.\n\nJust goes to show how cunning and conniving the devil can be.\n\nAs for the movie, didnt really enjoy it. A bit over the top.
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Jack is killed while trying to save kate.\nAnna Lucia is put on trial on the island justice.....and\n\nLocke becomes blind in his attempt to save Jin.\n\nMichael and Sun kiss.\n\nThe skeleton of a bird man like creature are found.
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Technically, a clone is a person to. For all intents and purposes, he/she is actually a divergent "you." If the clone has your mind, your thoughts, and your knowledge, then for all intents and purposes, that clone is a divergent "you." After a particular while, the clone will begin to differentiate themself from you and become a slightly different person due to different experiences, inevitably causing them to become a completely different person who just happens to look like you and share some exact memories from the past. This tells us that clones, no matter how much they are like us when we first make them, are separate human beings and have the potential to become unique individuals. They would more than likely be guarded by civil laws, and killing him or her would technically be no different from murdering your brother or sister.\n\nBy the same token, a clone could also kill you off and pretend that you were the one who had been cloned from him/her.\n\nSo... find him fast as you can, tie him to a tree, and beat the livin crap out of him until he agrees to stop wrecking your life!
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I didn't see the preview last week for this week's show.  They should have involved all parties in the episode since it was the final.\n\nTancredi needs to cut her hair a little shorter if she doesn't want to be recognized.\n\nThe only surprise is that these two keep evading custody!  It's just a little much when the show goes to great lengths to be realistic.  I am just confused as to how a lock goes undone at Link's feet and how the keys happen to be left in the seat.  I must have missed something, because that just doesn't make sense.  Mahone or Kellerman didn't have access to the transport vehicle to plant the keys.  Are we supposed to believe the keys accidentally fell out of the pocket of the guy?  I could understand that if everyone was in on it, but if everyone was in on it, Mahone would have been able to ride with the prisoners.\n\nOh well, still love the show.
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Going to see the X-MEN!? YOU BLASPHEMOUS HAIRY BALD MAN! Yer goin' ta hell in a hand-basket. Its a cute one too! I originally purchased it for my daughter but she moved away and its gathering dust.\n\nThe plan is to force you into the basket, hook it to a cable that leads to the center of the Earth - and send you sailing down into da pits. When you hit bottom, yank three times on the cable so we'll know to fill in the hole. You're cooperation is much appreciated. Thank you.\n\n(And you said Creationalists are not polite! Shame on you)
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It works a little like that. God tears off a piece of herself to make a soul. It doesn't matter, she's infinite and it doesn't shrink her. Why you ask yourself? Well, it's probably pretty lonely and boring being God. What would you do if you didn't have something to mess around with and talk to. Here's the dilemma. Since God is by definition perfect, why would a perfect being do this. Believe it our not, therein lies the answer and I think I figured it out. I've written what is basically a three thousand page novel in which I describe it. I'm almost done, another few months. It's been a journey of almost six years and required a unique and ambitious assault on both quantum and classical physics. It hangs together though, and there's really no other answer. Was it Sherlock Holmes that said: When you remove all of what it can't be, what's left, no matter how unlikely, is the truth. In an odd way, and regardless of the tongue and cheek nature of your question, you're on the right tract.
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The short answer is no.\n\nThe long answer is no, never, not ever, no how, no way, don't even think about it, impossible, etc... :)\n\nDNA is the instruction manual for every living multicellular organism and is contained in every nucleus of every cell in the body.  It is physically impossible to extract DNA from an organism without killing it, liquifying it, and separating the nucleic acids from all the other proteins.  Not something anyone would volunteer for, I would imagine.  Then you would have to figure out how to insert this into trillions upon trillions of cells before the receiving body dies due to lack of protein production.\n\nAlso, even if somehow you were able to extract DNA from every cell and replace it with some other DNA, you would end up destroying the organism anyway.   Changing the DNA is like using a cake recipe to build a car engine.  You would only end up with a mess under the hood.  \n\nEven if you replaced the DNA with another human being's DNA, there would be such severe rejection because of the production of non-self proteins and HLA mismatches that the body would almost immediately cease to function.  It is difficult enough to transplant a heart without causing rejection by the host body because of specific proteins found in the donor organ.  Imagine what would happen if every cell was doing the same thing... think of that senator character from the first X-men movie.
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I'm not sure whether a human has been cloned yet, but I'm sure it's only a matter of time.  My perception is that when something is scientifically possible, it will be done.  The important thing is to have ethical standards around how and under what circumstances it is done.\n\nScience fiction has been dealing with this question for many years, and it is one reason science fiction is so important.  It constitutes a forum for working out the moral values involved in a particular technological advance by "thought experiment" before being done in laboratory experiment.\n\nThe one I have problems with is whether or not clones will have souls.  Somebody asked that on Y!A awhile back, and I answered that it's a question we will need to resolve before we get into cloning humans.  And it's a question that raises a host of others:  What is a soul?  Do people really have such things, or is it just an abstract idea with no basis in "reality."  For that matter, what is "reality?"  ("What a concept!" says Robin Williams.)  If there is really such a thing, how does it get into a person?  What difference would it make if a clone did not have one?\n\nYou see, we have some important questions to answer here.
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I parricularly like the film can cannon on http://sci-toys.com/index.html but the other sites will hopefully give you some ideas!\n\nDo a search for "weird science" or "amateur science" and you'll find lots more- just be warned: some are slightly bonkers, lethal or both!\n\nHave fun!!
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It's a clever device to further the plot. They do have a selfish interest in finishing the movie. The story can continue and, though not anatomically correct, it's about entertainment.