Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo
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Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo
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Re: Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo
#2For a brief moment I thought this would be about something like robotic polo ponies, and considered the idea that four-legged high agility, high endurance robots had advanced significantly without me noticing.
Re: Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo
#3For a brief moment I thought this would be about something like robotic polo ponies, and considered the idea that four-legged high agility, high endurance robots had advanced significantly without me noticing.
Me too, I guess I don’t think of “replica” and “clone” as synonymous in the context of animals.
Re: Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo
#4For a brief moment I thought this would be about something like robotic polo ponies, and considered the idea that four-legged high agility, high endurance robots had advanced significantly without me noticing.
Though we are not yet competitive in the Argentinian Polo clone wars, we are making significant progress - https://www.satyress.com/
Re: Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo
#5Another Argentina/cloning-connected story is that President Javier Milei cloned his dog Conan at least four times: https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-04-26/the-myst...
The stories make me wonder if Argentina is a cloning hotspot, though I may be reading too much into two stories.
Re: Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo
#6For a brief moment I thought this would be about something like robotic polo ponies, and considered the idea that four-legged high agility, high endurance robots had advanced significantly without me noticing.
Though we are not yet competitive in the Argentinian Polo clone wars, we are making significant progress - https://www.satyress.com/
This has to be some kind of kink thing. Not judging, just how it looks from first appearances.
Re: Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo
#7Another Argentina/cloning-connected story is that President Javier Milei cloned his dog Conan at least four times: https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-04-26/the-myst... The stories make me wonder if Argentina is a cloning hotspot, though I may be reading too much into two stories.
That is where many of the nazi war doctors who escaped prosecution ended up…
Re: Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo
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Re: Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo
#9Surprised that the legal drama part of this wasn't discussed, it's how I first heard about this
Re: Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo
#10For a brief moment I thought this would be about something like robotic polo ponies, and considered the idea that four-legged high agility, high endurance robots had advanced significantly without me noticing.
That'd be alot more ethical than the current horse racing industry if it were the case.
Humans riding racing robots id watch, but not horse racing.