Originally Posted by lurkette

Re: human cloning, I'm having a hard time thinking about what the point would be.

Can anyone give me some good, compelling reasons FOR cloning that don't have to do with the vanity of carrying on one's bloodline for posterity?

Originally Posted by Carl Sagan

In the middle of the nineteenth century, the largely self-educated British physicist Michael Faraday was visited by his monarch, Queen Victoria. Among Faraday's many celebrated discoveries, some of obvious and immediate practical benefit, were more arcane findings in electricity and magnetism, then little more than laboratory curiosities. In the traditional dialogue between heads of state and heads of laboratories, the Queen asked Faraday of what use such studies were, to which he is said to have replied, "Madam, of what use is a baby?" Faraday had an idea that there might someday be something practical in electricity and magnetism.