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Topic: THEY FINALLY DID IT!!!
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Graysith
Chosen Daughter
Member # 27
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posted 11-25-2001 08:28 PM
     
Hey, I'm not talking a measly 120 years. Scientists already say... and have for some time... that there is no NEED for the body to age. The study of what causes lifeforms to age has been going on for a few decades now; I think that we're going to be eventually seeing people living waaaaay longer than 120. I don't know if we'd ever be immortal, per se; but barring accidents, I bet we'd be able to live a couple hundred years, maybe more.Maybe long enough to finally LEARN that hurting each other is stupid, ey? But this is still a looooong way down the road. Wow. Look where imagination leads us... simply in response to the development of a bunch of cells in a Petrie dish! Me... I don't see cloning people as being bad. There is more at play than genetics in determining how one turns out as one develops. I just don't see any real USE for doing it (other than for medical purposes). The "normal" method is better for the gene pool, and far more fun, hehehe. (sorry, I couldn't resist....)  -------------------- I ride the Stormcloud and the Night!
Posts: 3904 | From: Indianola, Iowa | Registered: Jul 2000 | Logged: 152.163.207.201
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Mara1Jade
Expanded Universe Goddess and Corran Obsessor
Member # 68
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posted 12-03-2001 04:47 PM
I still find cloning a highly disturbing idea. Yeah, yeah, I understand the medical implications. But something about it just really bothers me. Probably because clone or not a clone is still a living individual.-------------------- Small minds think in small terms!
~~CMH, creator and writer of Shayla Petrolu, Erik Kartan, Shawn Petrolu, Terrin Danner, Jasyn Lancaster, Matt Stanza, Aaron Barnes, And Taylor Garrison~~
Posts: 980 | From: Jacksonville, FL, USA | Registered: Sep 2000 | Logged: 139.62.161.169
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MASTER_THON
Broken Back Button
Member # 191
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posted 05-17-2002 03:03 AM
At the risk of making myself sound bad, I was once locked up myself for about 4 years. In those 4 years, Ive done alot of work on the person that I was to become the person that I am. I am a firm believer that rehabilitation starts and ends with the individual, after all, you can't, and won't change unless you really want to. I know that I have changed, and the people who love me know that I have changed. People can change, first they have to want to, and second, we have to let them.-------------------- RULE IN FEAR OF THE FORCE, AS WELL AS IN THE FORCE ITSELF
Posts: 10 | From: HOUMA,LA. | Registered: May 2002 | Logged: 209.62.213.244
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rocket99
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posted 07-27-2002 06:32 PM
If we do get to the place where we will be able to live a couple hundred years, I see us moving off the planet and starting bases on the Moon and Mars.Think of all the scientists that never finish their life's work. Now they will be able to.. I think Science would also grow by leaps and bounds in proportion to the life-span of people. Interplanetary travel would be as common as going to Europe. Good times, can't wait. !!!! 
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Entaris
Dark Priest
Member # 224
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posted 08-10-2002 08:57 PM
im probably a litlte late on this for anyone to care...but... Ok, living more than our natural lifespans is defenetly a very bad thing, unless, we do also have the technology to live on other planets, i mean, we have to many people in this world as it is, living longer would destroy the planet, and to add on, in the current way the world is going, i really dont want to stick around another couple hundred years... I think cloning though, is sort of a good idea, depending on the use. Making clones like in multiplicity, and the way we offten perceve cloning, is bad, but, we could with cloning pull an episode 2 stunt, and that would be very good, if they are trained from birth, for the soul purpose of fighting(and i know this sounds horrible) then they really are ment to be soldiers, and thats great, because then the other's in the world wont have to die needlessly, And yes, im against violence in general, but just think of how this could make our econemy go? we wouldnt have to pay the soldiers, wouldnt have to do anything except feed and train them... and if this is a horrible idea, think of it this way, chickens, some live to lay eggs and make more chickens, some live to lay eggs for breakfast, and some live to die, and be eaten...thats there purpose, its what they are for, we can not go against that, cows the same way, why not spare a few innocent lives by making soldiers that way?
as for death sentance, and abbortion and all that, they are both horrid... the death sentance is EXACTLY the same as abbortion, i know most dont realize it, but most of the criminals that are executed, never had a chance, there in the same boat as the baby's that are being killed before birth, yes, they had a life, but look at it, there parants probably beat them, they were told from the begining that they are no good, that they will only be trouble, in fact, most of those kids are the kids that were going to be killed before birth, because the father, or mother didnt want them, but the other parant, or a grandmother or soemthign was against it, so, either way they meet there end to the same cause... -------------------- "Insert Snappy quote here"
Posts: 796 | From: Victorville | Registered: May 2002 | Logged: 67.227.22.53
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That means I will have lived in 3 different centuries. Wow.
