Becoming Immortal by Cloning

Fracture · Mar 17, 2009

childofturin said: ↑

There are 6 billion people on the planet and the number is climbing. We are nearing the carrying capacity of Earth with our current technology, if we haven't passed it already. Now, if you start making people basically immortal, or even if you just double the human lifespan, the Earth will be in VERY serious trouble. Besides, the human public would never accept the fact that some (most likely the super-rich) people could be immortal. There would be riots in the streets, civil unrest, financial ruin, and anarchy reigning anywhere this practice would be implemented. I think it is theoretically possible to grow a new body exactly like your own (minus whatever traits you picked up in life - scars, weight, etc), but I highly doubt that anyone, even with unlimited funding would be able to transfer someone's consciousness like that. Hell, we don't even know where the consciousness of a person is!

I think that cloning, with a few more advances in the technology, could be most effective in jump-starting existing endangered species. Think about it: We take a few animals, say... Chimpanzees, clone say... 15 specimens about 100 times each (1500 new animals) while jumbling up the genes and traits for each one (to avoid genetic diseases later through inbreeding), and voila! We now have 1500 new, distinct chimps to add to the wild population! The same process could be applied to any other endangered species, and theoretically, any species we could find DNA for - the Dodo. The Mammoth. Neanderthal Man (Homo neandertalensis)? Maybe, but not advisable. The giant sloth. Other, recently-extinct species (ones that we ourselves killed). All these could possibly be revived.

Now THIS, I could see happening - an almost limitless store of past human existance that the humans of centuries later could draw from, as long as the devices to store us didn't fail.
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yes childofturin is right, when we start making people immortal, there are some serious consequences, we need people to die for others to live and for us to move forward.... if you like this sort of mae up idea, watch: Aeon Flux, and The Sixth Day

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