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Posted on 01/11/2007 10:35:32 PM PST by neverdem
This is frickin' bizarre!
That, too.
MOO!
You won't need lawnmowers.
MOO!
I suppose as long as they're engineering cow-people, they might as well make them low-emission cow-people. Otherwise, all that extra CO2 and methane might increase the average temperature of the earth by .1 degrees or so. But I guess they could also engineer heat-resistant cow-people if they had to. They can do that, right?
Mark
LOL A perfectly good reason why we don't want scientists going There.
I thought conception occurred when the sperm entered the egg?
Nice try, but that's not a cow. That's a bull.
You won't need lawnmowers.
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Go ahead and mock! Don't complain to me when some big, ugly stupid cow is in your face yelling "Hey; go get me a bail of straw and wash my laundry!"
How about this, instead of carpeting their houses, they can grow grass, and eat it too.
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How would you deal with the awkward situation when your neighbors ask you to stop in and milk them?
Miss Manners never addressed that.
lol, depending on whether they were half-cow hybrids that would be either kinky or wierd. Or maybe normal, hard to tell. Hopefully the half-bull hybrid would at work at the time.
There's true leadership for ya. No worries about what is moral, what is best for our future, what unintended consequences could result, what is best for the hu-vines, etc... just take a poll and go from there.
Mancow is deeply saddended...
As with most of these things, the first thing that springs to mind is "unnatural." It is a violation of the natural law. And we all know from the old Frankenstein movies that violating the natural law is not a good idea.
The second thing that springs to mind is that it's better not to let the genie out of the bottle. Once you pop the cork, you will find it very difficult to persuade the genie to go back in again. Or, to put this in less metaphorical terms, once the research has been done, the funds invested, the startup companies hired their researchers, secretaries, and janitors, it will be a great deal more difficult to change your mind.
The best time to stop it is right now, before it starts. But regretably there will always be plenty of people around who will want to do it because, like bill clinton, "I can." Still, it would be far easier to stop it now than to wait until after it gets out of the bottle.
You forgot about the methane problem.
Once you get started sliding down this slope, a later step will be to get the embryo to come to term and be born. Now we will have to answer the question: at what percentage of human DNA will the resulting organism be defined as legally "human" with human rights?
I can see some governments becoming interested in the creation of a race of beings with limited intelligence, docile and submissive temperment, and non-human appearance (so that many humans will not consider them to be worthy of full human rights). For what happens next, the original "Planet of the Apes" film series from the 1960's/70's comes to mind
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