can we just clear something up about cloning?

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Heard a discussion on the news about some scientists somewhere having managed to make clones from tissue that had been frozen for a jolly long time. Very important development and all that but WHY does any story about cloning always end up talking complete bollocks about bringing dead pets back to life?

Do most people honestly think identical twins are basically the same person? Do they not realise that a clone, created years after the original, will develop in a different environment and become a different animal? Even when (if) the technology is perfected, you won't be able to bring your deceased moggy/dog/goldfish back to life!

Sheesh.

Logical thought has been banned in the British media since 1978.

is the idea not to bring back extinct animals, or those close to becomming extinct?

what about a wooly mammoth

Yup, that seems to be the idea, Elf.

Distracting CGI footage of woolly mammoths on the news just now. Guess the BBC wanted to remind everyone they did Walking With Dinosaurs or whatever it was called. But the animators had one poor WM falling through the ice while the others just trudged on without so much as a passing glance. Very strange way to script it.

Clones don't live as long do they? I don't think Dolly lived to a ripe old age.

HOW can you bring back extinct animals?
the mice were incubated in mice uterus. where are they going tofind a working mammoth uterus?

It never bothered the makers of Jurassic Park did it? A salutory tale perhaps.

Not sure about Dolly but certainly a very high rate of premature death and disability amongst her sisters.

stitch - I am guessing an elephant uterus will do.

no, thats rather like suggesting an orangutan, or gorrilla uterus will do for a human

Maybe they're going to replicate a uterus in a lab?