What are your thoughts on new technologies that may allow couples of the same sex to conceive, or for human-animal hybrids to be created, etc. Is the post-human age here, and if so, what do we do with it? Squeeze our eyes shut and hope it doesn't happen?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1676240.stm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article1657919.ece?openComment=true
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2000/09/25/menbaby000925.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/01/0125_050125_chimeras.html

I have no issues with the techniques.

I may clone myself.  Then when I'm a decrepit old whacko, my enslaved younger self can take care of me.  The chump.

Quote from: Rebis on March 31, 2008, 02:08:44 PM

I have no issues with the techniques.

I may clone myself.  Then when I'm a decrepit old whacko, my enslaved younger self can take care of me.  The chump.

Or you could just, like emperor Palpatine, transfer your consciousness from clone to clone! Muahahahaha!

~Simone,
       Original Star Wars Geek. I even read comics.

My ideal is to clone the female me and then transfer consciousness.   I don't care what I look like as a female as long as I have the body of one.  Hell, I'd run naked through the streets!


I know gay couples and it doesn't bother me if they use one of those techniques you listed.

Oh clone me, with more of me I could do even less, by having more of me doing even fewer things.  Think of the combined sloth of the collective.  Wow.

Quotecombined sloth of the collective

Sounds like something a Borg goth band would come up with.

I'm sure its been done.

To be honest, all this new fangled technology ->-bleeped-<- makes my stomach churn. I'm an old fashioned type soul.

I do not see anything wrong with the science or technology. It is the ethics in which they are used that need to be human. Ethics change as culture changes, but to define what is human will evolve. Not all things new are of a benefit to the evolution process.Hopefully we have the wisdom to choose the best way.

My only concern with it is the same with all of the plastic surgery being done. Eventually we will all look the same.

I think we may be on the verge of hooking-up those computers and robots and assigning humans to 'The Matrix' or 'Zion.' -- Wanna be Neo? I'll do the Trinity part!!! hahahahaha

As with most of our technology I think we will make many mistakes and commit some very deep horrors before we realize that to know how to do a thing is not to know how to live with it in comfort.

N~

Quote from: Nero on March 31, 2008, 02:40:53 PM
To be honest, all this new fangled technology ->-bleeped-<- makes my stomach churn. I'm an old fashioned type soul.

you want to throw us down and knock us up.






Posted on: March 31, 2008, 06:05:56 PM

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Quote from: sd on March 31, 2008, 03:50:26 PM
My only concern with it is the same with all of the plastic surgery being done. Eventually we will all look the same.

Not me.   I want to look like Zira as played by Kim Hunter.

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I want to look like Zira and be knocked up by Nero.

Quote from: tekla on March 31, 2008, 02:28:52 PM
Oh clone me, with more of me I could do even less, by having more of me doing even fewer things.  Think of the combined sloth of the collective.  Wow.

uh uh. bad idea. 3 Teklas would be enough to take over the world.

Not with an army of Ziras around to stop them.

Quote from: lady amarant on March 31, 2008, 01:18:10 PM
What are your thoughts on new technologies that may allow for human-animal hybrids to be created, etc.

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat ~~ [Mark Twain] ~~



tink

wow, a cat quote that fits 

I am scared at what could be done, but I am encouraged that it can be done.

Quote from: redfish the postmodern on March 31, 2008, 08:57:28 PM
I could finally have someone to tell my insane rants to

what makes you think yourself won't run away from you?

Quote from: Rebis on March 31, 2008, 07:07:04 PM

Quote from: Nero on March 31, 2008, 02:40:53 PM
To be honest, all this new fangled technology ->-bleeped-<- makes my stomach churn. I'm an old fashioned type soul.

you want to throw us down and knock us up.






Posted on: March 31, 2008, 06:05:56 PM

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Quote from: sd on March 31, 2008, 03:50:26 PM
My only concern with it is the same with all of the plastic surgery being done. Eventually we will all look the same.

Not me.   I want to look like Zira as played by Kim Hunter.

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I want to look like Zira and be knocked up by Nero.

oh god reebs. if i only had the seed, it'd be planted around the universe, lemme tell ya. 

Quote from: redfish the MANLY MAN on March 31, 2008, 10:52:07 PM

Quote from: Rebis on March 31, 2008, 09:00:06 PM

Quote from: redfish the postmodern on March 31, 2008, 08:57:28 PM
I could finally have someone to tell my insane rants to

what makes you think yourself won't run away from you?

Because I'm the only one who understands me 

even more reason for you to run away.


Check.  and.  mate.

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