Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens

Post by margalabargala » Sun, May 24, 2026, 4:48 PM UTC

fragmede wrote: post #32

onion2k wrote: post #24

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[Colossal Biosciences] has raised over $600 million and carries a valuation exceeding $10 billion. You're not making a return on that from selling velocirator skeletons. Nor is that sort of money in dodos and maos. Human cloning on the other hand...

It's been a while since high school biology class, and I can't ask my sister right now, but I don't think humans are born in eggs. What does an artificial egg hatching chickens have to do with cloning humans?

Post by wartywhoa23 » Sun, May 24, 2026, 4:59 PM UTC

mplanchard wrote: post #29

daniel_iversen wrote: post #19

I've just started listening to the book "Brave new world" (no spoilers please!) and this is literally how the book begins (but with humans) - what could possibly go wrong!

No spoilers, but I used to think, along the lines of Neil Postman in Amusing Ourselves to Death, that Brave New World wound up being the more accurate picture of future society than 1984, despite being less well-known and referenced in cultural consciousness. Unfortunately, it seems like the former may be enabling the latter, so we may end up with a “porque no los dos” situation.

Post by MagicMoonlight » Sun, May 24, 2026, 5:01 PM UTC

ProblemFactory wrote: post #58

onion2k wrote: post #24

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[Colossal Biosciences] has raised over $600 million and carries a valuation exceeding $10 billion. You're not making a return on that from selling velocirator skeletons. Nor is that sort of money in dodos and maos. Human cloning on the other hand...

How about a theme park? With velociraptors and other jurassic era animals?

Post by aaronbrethorst » Sun, May 24, 2026, 5:20 PM UTC

mplanchard wrote: post #29

daniel_iversen wrote: post #19

I've just started listening to the book "Brave new world" (no spoilers please!) and this is literally how the book begins (but with humans) - what could possibly go wrong!

No spoilers, but I used to think, along the lines of Neil Postman in Amusing Ourselves to Death, that Brave New World wound up being the more accurate picture of future society than 1984, despite being less well-known and referenced in cultural consciousness. Unfortunately, it seems like the former may be enabling the latter, so we may end up with a “porque no los dos” situation.

Post by dspillett » Sun, May 24, 2026, 5:26 PM UTC

detourdog wrote: post #63

kombine wrote: post #42

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I haven't read Brave New World but "We" by Evgeny Zamyatin left a similar impression on me, it's more subtle than 1984. It came out earlier than both books by the Western authors - even though Zamyatin was inspired while working in England in early 20th century.

The book "The Machine Stops" was posted here a a while back it's a 100 years old and just as prescient as "Brave New World" and "1984". https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/e-m-forster/short-fiction/... I will look up We.