Posted on 08/21/2013 6:44:18 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
A dentist wants to clone John Lennon from his rotten tooth
All you need is DNA. A Canadian dentist says he's working with "American scientists" to clone John Lennon from a rotten molar the Beatles singer had extracted in the 1960s.
According to the press release (warning: it autoplays a weird parody song, "Love Me Tooth") dentist Michael Zuk bought the tooth at auction for $31,000 and now is working with an unspecified lab to see if they can clone him.
Says Zuk:
I am nervous and excited at the possibility that we will be able to fully sequence John Lennon's DNA, very soon I hope. With researchers working on ways to clone mammoths, the same technology certainly could make human cloning a reality.
Zuk has set up a website, JohnLennonDNA, where he also reveals a weird sculpture his sister made, combining Lennon and fellow Beatle Paul McCartney into a nightmarish conglomeration, called "McLennon."
I just hope the clone is evil. Really.
(Excerpt) Read more at io9.com ...
This is what Lennon's rotten tooth will grow up to become. It's little wonder why he had it pulled.
Imagine!
How about Godzilla instead and we could send it to Washington!
Someone would have many more chances working from John Lydon’s dentistry, although who knows what monsters might arise.
"Rotten" is in the DNA of his teeth ...
Don’t his survivors have any say about this?
How about better musicians, like Stevie Ray Vaughan, Alvin Lee, Ronnie James Dio Chuck Schuldiner,
“All we are say-ing .... is give [his] teeth a chance.”
You say you want an imitation
Well you know
You all want to clone the world
You tell me that it’s a fixation
Well you know
You all want to fix the world
But when you talk about playing God
Don’t you know you can count me out
Don’t you know it’s gonna be your blight
Your blight, Your blight
You say you want to use an old tooth
Well you know
You’re a crazy science man
You ask me for a contribution
Well you know
That’s not up to man
But if you want DNA for people who’ve long been lost
All I can tell you is brother you’ll pay the cost
Don’t you know it’s gonna be your blight
Your blight, your blight....
"Well, son, you were once a bit of festering tissue in a rotten tooth."
"I hate you, Daddy."
This is all too sick to contemplate.
Lets cross breed John Lennon and a woolly mammoth!
Even if successful the talent would not replicate.
You can clone the body, but you can’t clone the soul. John Lennon version 2 would be a completely different person from the original.
BRAVO!!!
Exactly!
Even if this cloning was possible, the human clone would LOOK like John Lennon, but the cloned version would not have any of the original John Lennon’s life experiences.
The clone could very well grow up to be an accountant, bus driver, businessman, attorney, brick layer, store clerk or whoever with no interest in music at all.
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