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In China, a Rhesus monkey has become the first cloned primate to survive to healthy adulthood. (www.rte.ie)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I can see the rich pouring money into this tech to grow organs for themselves. The clones would need to be segregated though, as otherwise there might be issues with property rights etc. They could be put on an island, the rich have a few spare I'm sure. We could tell the clones that the rest of the world was too damaged for humans to live there. It would need to be hidden perhaps as there would be moral outrage if it was discovered the clones were intended to have organs harvested from them. God help then if one of the clones escapes though.

Wait, no, thats the plot to The Island with Ewan McGregor... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Island_(2005_film)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How would you know, earth isn't already one of those islands and we're the clones?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I feel like the overloads would try harder for us to eat healthy and give us better climate of that were the case. Unless they are into free range like Jupiter acending or Vandread.