12-23-2004, 10:45 AM | #2 (permalink) | |
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You're a rookie, so I'll be easy on your Please post the entire article and a bit more of a comment. It's hard for people to get an idea of what the article is about with just the link and "I don't know what to think about this" type comments.
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12-23-2004, 10:58 AM | #3 (permalink) | |
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12-23-2004, 11:02 AM | #4 (permalink) |
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I'd have to agree. The people paying to have their cats done are rather retarded. The cats don't even look like the previous one (different coat patterns etc..). While there is some benefit such as improved cloning techniques, this business is laregely useless. Atleast with cats it is, anyway.. you can get more than you'll know what to do with for free from any animal shelter. When they get into cloning endangered species then it would make more sense, or would be a worthy cause.
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12-23-2004, 11:04 AM | #5 (permalink) |
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$50K for a Cat is no more outrageous than $50K for a car or $1 million for a house.
It's all a matter of perspective and available funds. $50K is about what I make in a year, so clearly paying that much for a cat is freaking ridiculous. However, for this lady is probably much richer than I am, what's the big deal. She is just taking advantage of the resources available to her. Good for her, I personally will never have a cat (allergies) but I could think of plenty of ways to blow $50K in just such a useless manner. Assuming I had that kind of cake to throw around.
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12-23-2004, 11:24 AM | #7 (permalink) |
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She should have stuffed the cat and put it on her coffee table. No food to buy, no clean up and no vet bills and that 50 grand could have gone to a worthwhile charity
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12-23-2004, 12:04 PM | #10 (permalink) |
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You bought a $50,000 cloned kitten??
Yes indeedy! What's his name? Copy Cat. ---- You cloned a cat? Yep! How does it taste? Like chicken. ---- Will we be able to bring back the Dodo, or the Passenger pigeon? I wonder if they can bring back my juniorhigh shop teacher? Would I recognise him with all his fingers intact? These are life's important questions. For some reason, Pet Sematary comes to mind.
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12-23-2004, 02:59 PM | #15 (permalink) |
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This is absofuckinglutely ridiculous.
First, $50K?!? Do you know how many shelter cats that would support for a year?! Second, the joke is on her. If she thinks she's going to get an exact replica of her pweshious kiddy widdy she's sadly mistaken. Genetics doesn't work like that - the identical genes may be there, but they need IDENTICAL environmental conditions to turn on and turn off the same experience-driven genes that the original cat had. There may be a lot of similarities, but you're still getting a different critter in terms of health, behavior, personality, the whole 9 yards. The stupidity of some people is beyond comprehension.
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12-23-2004, 03:19 PM | #16 (permalink) | |
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They'll be a horror movie about killer cloned cats by 2008...wait for it!
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12-23-2004, 03:26 PM | #17 (permalink) | |
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I couldn't care less that someone spent $50,000 on a cloned cat. That's their problem.
What I do care about, and what pleases me, are the advances in genetics that this kind of (unfortunate?) commercialization helps fund. The most losers who spend $50k getting their cats copied, the more likely research will continue. The more likely research continues, the more likely we will begin to see advances in genetic medicene. Quote:
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12-23-2004, 03:34 PM | #18 (permalink) |
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Well I guess her $50,000 could go towards useful research. I recently watched a program on television about cloning and they emphasised the more practical side of the endevour.
Personally I see this as a waste of time. Only good to come of this is the money that could be recycled in the research. If you loose a pet or anyone it's better for you to learn to accept that. It makes the joy of another pet that much sweeter. Replacing it and getting your hopes up for a twin of your first doesnt' seem that emotionally healthy to me. The program I saw explained how the cloning methods that have been developed have allowed scientists to put only a portion of DNA into an egg and alter the existing egg but not replace it's DNA. It's resulted in a cow/cows that can produce milk with more human proteins in it. It would eventually replace formula and be so much better for babies than formula can ever be. I can see uses for cloning but this isn't one of them. I guess almost everything has to find it's market and become commercialized before it advances.
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12-23-2004, 03:43 PM | #19 (permalink) |
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we had our cat for 23 years (thats older than me)...now our mom thinks that our current dog is the cat reincarnated. its more of a joke, i dont think she really believes it. point is: you dont need to clone your dead cat to keep him near and dear to your heart. it kinda cheapens his memory in my opinion.
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12-23-2004, 04:03 PM | #20 (permalink) |
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Location: Greater Vancouver
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What an enormous waste of money. I wouldn't spend that kind of money on a cat even if I had billions of dollars in spare change. Then again, I wouldn't spend that kind of money on pumping my lips full of collagen either. Where there are stupid people with money to burn, there are companies taking advantage of them.
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12-24-2004, 03:20 PM | #22 (permalink) |
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Cataclone.
It's her money - she can do whatever she wants with it. If YOU were wealthy enough to throw around $50K you'd probably be getting that car or boat you had your eye on. Remember, Americans look just as stupid to the rest of the world with our sophisticated market for pet food and pet products including toys and clothing. |
12-24-2004, 03:31 PM | #23 (permalink) | |
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It sounds like the cat woman needs therapy, not a clone.
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12-27-2004, 03:02 PM | #27 (permalink) |
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although I wouldnt spend that kind of money on something like that.....its HER money, she can do with it what she wants
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