To: hobo who wrote (3817 ) 1/29/2001 1:30:23 AM From: hobo Respond to ROFLMAO This is why Steen Willadsen says that if you want to create people who are identical, cloning might actually be a bad way to do it. "It is retrograde to clone," he says, a little tongue-in-cheek. "There are other ways of making people identical. We can put them through the same schools and subject them to eight hours of TV every day. That works a lot better. Why do you think Americans are buying SUVs?" Resurrection and Messiahs From Montreal, it takes about an hour by highway and country roads to reach a huge white barn painted with the word "UFOLand." This is a home base for the Raelians - Clonaid's founders, and religious believers who teach that advanced extraterrestrial beings called Elohim landed in France in 1973 to meet aspiring race-car driver Claude Vorilhon. They changed Vorilhon's name to Rael, told him that humans are clones of the Elohim, and revealed that someday he will lead mankind into a blissful techno-utopian future. Rael was to be the last prophet, the end of the line that includes Moses, Jesus, Mohammed, and Buddha. A silver cup sits under Rael's picture. It's a trophy: Third place in the 1997 Dodge Dealers of Connecticut Grand Prix. I'm taken into Rael's quarters, which look like the bedroom of a particularly neat 15-year-old with permissive parents. A series of photographs featuring a nude young woman - Rael's wife - hangs on the walls. At his desk are two computers, one equipped with a steering wheel for virtual reality racing. Rael is dressed in his standard uniform: billowy white trousers and a broad-shouldered white vest over a white tunic. His long hair is tied into a topknot on his balding head. wired.com
