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Title: Cloning Neanderthals: Not a Pipedream
Post by: Confederate Kahanist on February 14, 2010, 10:35:27 PM
I think this might be a bad idea. 


http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/12/tech/main6201715.shtml
Title: Re: Cloning Neanderthals: Not a Pipedream
Post by: muman613 on February 14, 2010, 10:40:49 PM
I say Nyet!
Title: Re: Cloning Neanderthals: Not a Pipedream
Post by: Ari Ben-Canaan on February 14, 2010, 10:53:28 PM
This does sound like a bad idea.  Koranimals are bad enough.
Title: Re: Cloning Neanderthals: Not a Pipedream
Post by: Rubystars on February 14, 2010, 11:54:33 PM
I don't think this would be a good idea. If it was cloning a simple animal, I'd be ok with it, but we're talking about human beings here. Neanderthals likely spoke like us. They had funeral rituals, used ochre in ceremonies, used tools, and fashioned clothing. They were different from our type of human but still very much human beings.

I think playing around with human life we have to be very much more careful than when trying to clone something like say, the thylacine.
Title: Re: Cloning Neanderthals: Not a Pipedream
Post by: rhayat1 on February 15, 2010, 07:46:14 AM
I say sure, go ahead and do it.  That way those human women, who are attracted to the primitive type, wouldn't have to resort to dating negroes.
Title: Re: Cloning Neanderthals: Not a Pipedream
Post by: Rubystars on February 15, 2010, 08:24:45 AM
I say sure, go ahead and do it.  That way those human women, who are attracted to the primitive type, wouldn't have to resort to dating negroes.

They probably would be more intelligent than negroes because they lived in a much more challenging environment and had larger brains.  :laugh:

It's possible they contributed somewhat to the genome of Europeans but this is hotly debated and not likely to be resolved any time soon.
Title: Re: Cloning Neanderthals: Not a Pipedream
Post by: New Yorker on February 15, 2010, 11:01:03 AM

Even if it is possible, what woman would carry the neanderthal baby and give birth to it? Yeah I know, with the current crop of wingnuts out there probably lots of women. Ecch, the whole idea is monstrous.
Title: Re: Cloning Neanderthals: Not a Pipedream
Post by: Irish Zionist on February 15, 2010, 11:10:14 AM
They were still more civilised than the blacks today.
Title: Re: Cloning Neanderthals: Not a Pipedream
Post by: Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks on February 15, 2010, 11:14:38 AM
They probably would be more intelligent than negroes because they lived in a much more challenging environment and had larger brains.  :laugh:

Rubystars, a naked mole rat is more intelligent than negroes.
Title: Re: Cloning Neanderthals: Not a Pipedream
Post by: Irish Zionist on February 15, 2010, 11:16:33 AM
They probably would be more intelligent than negroes because they lived in a much more challenging environment and had larger brains.  :laugh:

Rubystars, a naked mole rat is more intelligent than negroes.
Your insulting the rat by comparing it to blacks.
Title: Re: Cloning Neanderthals: Not a Pipedream
Post by: Irish Zionist on February 15, 2010, 11:21:01 AM
Even this creature does more and hinks more than the negro
(http://joshhuckabee.com/files/450px-Bradypus.jpg)
Title: Re: Cloning Neanderthals: Not a Pipedream
Post by: New Yorker on February 15, 2010, 11:27:24 AM
Sigh, it can only lead to this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVvBXBZEhkw&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVvBXBZEhkw&feature=related)

and this! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjqkH-rekiQ&feature=player_embedded (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjqkH-rekiQ&feature=player_embedded)
Title: Re: Cloning Neanderthals: Not a Pipedream
Post by: Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks on February 15, 2010, 11:54:06 AM
Your insulting the rat by comparing it to blacks.
No, reread it. I said it is MORE intelligent than the negroes.
Title: Re: Cloning Neanderthals: Not a Pipedream
Post by: Cato on February 15, 2010, 01:23:39 PM
I say sure, go ahead and do it.  That way those human women, who are attracted to the primitive type, wouldn't have to resort to dating negroes.
I'm not so sure about all this ugliness. Face modelling of a Neanderthal female from Spain showed her to be different, but not bad at all. Also, blacks could never have provided for a European winter, so all in all - given that an increasing number of scientists argue that we have a lot of Neanderthal in us - we shouldn't malign them. Also, they disappeared as a race not so long ago at all.
Title: Re: Cloning Neanderthals: Not a Pipedream
Post by: Masha on February 15, 2010, 01:26:27 PM
That's cre-e-e-epy!  :fright:
Title: Re: Cloning Neanderthals: Not a Pipedream
Post by: TruthSpreader on February 15, 2010, 03:18:14 PM
They were still more civilised than the blacks today.

And smarter too.

(http://scienceblogs.com/shiftingbaselines/geico-cavemen-restaurant.jpg)

Title: Re: Cloning Neanderthals: Not a Pipedream
Post by: angryChineseKahanist on February 15, 2010, 05:41:29 PM
Wait! They're not supposed to depict the prophet Mohammed:
(http://wwwimage.cbsnews.com/images/2002/03/07/image503207g.jpg)