RePet?
Published Thu, Jan 29 2009 9:22 AM
In the movie The 6th Day, Arnold Schwarzenegger's character considers buying a clone to replace his daughters dog. The company he approached for making the purchase was RePet.
Well, they say life mimics art. Now we know that it mimics science fiction…
“It truthfully is amazing to me that this process has come to be and that I am getting, if not my dog, certainly the essence of Lancelot and it looks so much like him that, well... He's a clone, so he should look like him,” said Otto. “Lancy was the first dog, commercially that they did clone because his DNA was frozen and very viable.”
Of course the movie was about human clones. Schwarzenegger's character was cloned, and the clone was attacked repeatedly by assassins that were also clones, and clones of clones — all to protect the business interests of a man that was himself a clone.
The adorable Lancy is cute as a button, but a clone is a walking controversy.
“People think that cloning dogs is a stepping stone to cloning people. Dogs are actually harder to clone than people,” said Hawthorne.
I only want to be here once. I've got other places to go when I shuffle off this mortal coil. Hopefully better ones.
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David responded with:
 | "I've got other places to go when I shuffle off this mortal coil."
That's why one of my fav rejoinders to "Have a nice day" is "Well, you have a nice trip, cos life's not a dead end, you know."
John 14:1-4, 1 Corinthians 13:13-58, etc.
As to the cloning of the dog, for the $150,000 in vanity monies spent, they could have funded a LOT of animal shelter work and gotten a nice puppy at the same time. Pure self-indulgence without any redeeming virtue I can see. |
Angel responded with:
 | nice..I like Davids comment as well!:) |
Stanford Matthews responded with:
 | So if cloning eventually becomes common place and like some other sci-fi stories the clones take over and eliminate the 'original' species who will the clones clone? |
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