Very exciting. As long as its done responsibly, I support the endeavour 100%. I think it'll bring big changes in the future.
Overlooked this earlier, thinking it was just another religious thing, but my mother just showed it to me on the news and I'd be banned for repeating my reaction in exact words. There's incredible potential there that's got me buzzing with "What happens next?" I expect some religious people are gonna descend on this though, maybe I'm just selfish but on the news they mentioned ethical dilemmas, is it akin to abortion to create life only to dissect it and use bits? Does something created by scientists have "human rights" if it isn't human? Much interesting debate in the future, I expect. And Van Zandt, saw it on the news, first thing that was said when they saw it was "It's alive!" Well, I guess they'd exhausted their brilliance. If I was there I would have gone fo "one small step for man" xD
I love the idea of using knowledge to create new things, I think we've just seen the tip of the iceberg once science is allowed to open pandora's box....
I'd love to see human cloning, imagine a healthy Stephen Hawking and what he could do over a normal lifetime....
Sorry to be contrary but I'm pretty sure Hawking himself admitted he wouldn't have been a great genius if he hadn't been confined to his chair. Lacking other abilities he had nothing to but think.
I had that conversation with a friend over dinner last night actually. We decided he'd be too involved with teaching, going out, lecturing, etc to sit and ponder the universe as he currently does.....I wonder if he's ever commented on whether he considers his ailment a curse or a blessing for science. I wouldn't wish his disease on anyone but he is just so freaking brilliant....imagine two Stephen Hawkings debating a topic, no one could understand what they were discussing but it'd be a great lecture to hear.....
Hawking is damned smart, but it kind of bugs me that he gets all the attention when there are physicists out there who have achieved just as much, if not more, and people don't know who they are.
i would laugh SO much if hawking got his body back, and dropped science for something like, say, entering the porn business
Does anybody really think that a cloned person will grow up to think, act and behave EXACTLY like the original did?
Exactly. If any of us were to be "reborn" to a different set of parents...raised through a different series of experiences with different people and influences...I'd wager most of us would be FAR different from who we are today.
