To: Maurice Winn who wrote (4603 ) 5/10/2002 12:42:05 AM From: Maurice Winn Respond to Cloning, Ratman, CDNA and CDMA ... here comes the 21st century. slate.msn.com We tell ourselves we won't do this to dogs, monkeys, or humans. "We're trying to avoid using bigger animals." Chapin told the Post. But that language is already hedged. History shows little human reluctance to manipulate higher animals. We've used attack dogs, lab monkeys, and military dolphins trained to hunt human divers. Our rationales for robotizing rats are already moving in that direction. "Rats are more mobile than mechanical robots," Chapin explained. "The rat has rather sophisticated navigational skills developed over 200 million years of evolution. It makes sense to make good use of the animal's abilities." Good point. And dogs, being more evolved, have even better navigational skills. And monkeys, being still more evolved, have still better navigational skills. Almost as good as humans. >herald.co.nz Earlier this month a Middle East newspaper whipped up a storm of controversy by quoting Severino Antinori as saying that a woman in his programme was pregnant, but did not provide details making it clear whether it was the result of cloning. >graviton.com and It will be able to run the world easy peasy and hang out most days playing golf [with Tiger Woods' neural control, we'll be able to get some impressive scores].
