X-Message-Number: 12543
From: "John de Rivaz" <>
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Subject: Re: hamberger/cow
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 10:40:18 +0100

This could be dangerous, as although you could get *a* cow back, you could
not get the same cow back with all its memories etc.

Just as most people have a lot of misconceptions about cryonics, so do they
about cloning - many people think having yourself cloned would be comparable
to extended life after the original perished. Utter rubbish I know, but it
is what people think, even otherwise articulate and intelligent people.

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Sincerely, John de Rivaz
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> That old quip about making hamburger into a cow has turned, I think, into
a
> weapon *we* can use, in view of cloning. A steer was cloned recently,
wasn't
> it? Cattle have been cloned from adult cells. "Hamburger" is a type of
cell
> sample. You *can* get a cow from hamburger. Maybe someone ought to point
> this out specifically to the media, at the next opportunity.
>
> Mike Perry

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