Attention DIY-ers: Think twice before cloning animals

Case in point, this fellow:

Montana man gets 6 months in prison for cloning giant sheep and breeding it (msn.com)

Government is just mad they didn't get a cut.

People shouldn't breed with sheep. 😂

<puts away CRISPER set> OKAY, MOOOOOOMMMMM.....

Ah, Montana, where the men are men and the sheep are sacred.

Well if a man can't clone sheep on his own, what kind of freedom do we have, really? 

In reply to Appleseed :

Sacred, or scared?

Gives new meaning to the phrase "Do It Yourself..."

SV reX said:

In reply to Appleseed :

Sacred, or scared?

Why not both?

One of these days, the ability to alter DNA and use some sort of bio 3D printer to bring to life whatever creation you made will be available to the masses in some sort of fashion. It'll probably be here before we know it ... unless AI gets us first.

GMO corn - OK.    GMO Lab Rats - OK.  GMO Big Horn Sheep -  not OK.   

jharry3 said:

GMO corn - OK.    GMO Lab Rats - OK.  GMO Big Horn Sheep -  not OK.   

Sounds capricious and arbitrary.  Who's to say?

Edit:  My guess is the govt wants to squelch private sector experimentation in this area to protect their investment.  You think the govt isn't working on honey badger/human hybrids to serve as infantrymen?  Think again.

J.A. Ackley said:

One of these days, the ability to alter DNA and use some sort of bio 3D printer to bring to life whatever creation you made will be available to the masses in some sort of fashion. It'll probably be here before we know it ... unless AI gets us first.

No less likely than the rest of the news reports 

Attention DIY-ers: Think twice before GETTING CAUGHT cloning animals

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1988RedT2 said:

jharry3 said:

GMO corn - OK.    GMO Lab Rats - OK.  GMO Big Horn Sheep -  not OK.   

Sounds capricious and arbitrary.  Who's to say?

Edit:  My guess is the govt wants to squelch private sector experimentation in this area to protect their investment.  You think the govt isn't working on honey badger/human hybrids to serve as infantrymen?  Think again.

 

The conspiracy theory thread is over there>>>

1988RedT2 said:

jharry3 said:

GMO corn - OK.    GMO Lab Rats - OK.  GMO Big Horn Sheep -  not OK.   

Sounds capricious and arbitrary.  Who's to say?

Edit:  My guess is the govt wants to squelch private sector experimentation in this area to protect their investment.  You think the govt isn't working on honey badger/human hybrids to serve as infantrymen?  Think again.

 

Strange men laying in pastures cloning sheep is no basis for a government. 

In reply to bobzilla :

And yet, here we are.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

J.A. Ackley said:

One of these days, the ability to alter DNA and use some sort of bio 3D printer to bring to life whatever creation you made will be available to the masses in some sort of fashion. It'll probably be here before we know it ... unless AI gets us first.

Trained molecular biologists here.  Hell no. We can synthesize entire small genomes right now with Gibson assemblies maybe in the 70-75kb range. 
 

we cannot even use machine learning to make single mutations that have predictable biological or biophysical outputs.  

1) I cannot think of any good way to describe something as "alternative livestock".

2) Cloning is all well and fun until someone recreates Arthropleura (do NOT google 'giant millipede')

3) Why have we talked about cloned sheep twice, but never talked about Canadian Super Pigs and their cross-border invasion into USA?

https://www.livescience.com/animals/land-mammals/canadian-super-pigs-are-likely-to-invade-northern-us-study-warns

https://canadainvasives.ca/wild-pigs/

I probably should not used a picture of a real person for this.  But the internet being what it is.

wearymicrobe said:

J.A. Ackley said:

One of these days, the ability to alter DNA and use some sort of bio 3D printer to bring to life whatever creation you made will be available to the masses in some sort of fashion. It'll probably be here before we know it ... unless AI gets us first.

Trained molecular biologists here.  Hell no...

Note the plural "biologists". He's already cloned himself...conspiracy theory right here for stafford1500...

In reply to stafford1500 :

For as much money as the CIA has tied up in bringing back the mammoth, it may not be a "theory"

J.A. Ackley said:

Case in point, this fellow:

Montana man gets 6 months in prison for cloning giant sheep and breeding it (msn.com)

So why is this illegal, while smoking dope and gambling isn't? 

Think of the societal benefits of giant sheep.  Large, tasty mutton chops.  All that wool! 

And this brilliant man rots in jail while gambling drug addicts run our corporations and government.  It's all upside-down, I tell you!

This is why not...