first class comedy

[jverne]

Iranian scientists said Monday that the country's first cloned sheep is thriving 15 months after birth, eating well and frolicking among a flock of normal sheep. The cloned male sheep named Royana was born Sept. 30, 2006 in the historic central city of Isfahan, less than two months after the country's first cloned animal, also a lamb, died within minutes of birth.

now comes the funny part

Iran's cloning program has won backing from the Shiite Muslim religious leaders, who have issued decrees authorizing animal cloning but banning human reproductive cloning. A majority of Iran's nearly 70 million people are Shiite Muslims.

yes because we all know that's what Allah wrote in the koran. i wonder if he wrote some hints how to build that fusion reactor.

The effort is part of Iran's quest to become a regional high-tech powerhouse in western Asia by 2025. Tehran has also launched an ambitious space program, while its controversial uranium enrichment has the West worried it is masking Iran's attempts to build a nuclear weapon.

ok that's technically nothing wrong with that, but i grinned a bit.
i'd just love to see a big stone block on the moon, with "Praise Allah" written on it.




i don't know why but this things just piss me off.

 

[lePobz]

Ambitious space program? Good luck to them. Maybe they'll find out that the earth isn't flat after all.

 

[99.vikram]

i don't know why but this things just piss me off.

I think this is brilliant. Countries that invest in technology always get smarter.

 

[jverne]

Ambitious space program? Good luck to them. Maybe they'll find out that the earth isn't flat after all.

lol...i think they'll just say the devil (or whatever) is testing them, thus making the world seem round.











DISCLAIMER! the following statement doesn't mean all Iranian citizens are dumbasses, even tough a lot of them obviously support Islamic law, i have the right to make fun of them. in other words, this is the INTERNETZ. go **** yourself.

 

[AJ Rimmer]

...how is this funny?

 

[jondy]

Everything is funny in 2008.

 

[Eejit]

Everything is funny in 2008.

Chinese Year of the ROFL?

 

[jverne]

...how is this funny?

it's not that kind of cheap, dirty ass, Hollywood funny you're used to.
but a more refined, pure, ignorant imbecile type of funny...or we can just say sarcasm.

 

[AJ Rimmer]

it's not that kind of cheap, dirty ass, Hollywood funny you're used to.
but a more refined, pure, ignorant imbecile type of funny...or we can just say sarcasm.

...they cloned a sheep. And then they banned human cloning. They've done exactly what the rest of the world has done. And they are also religious.

I still do not see the funny.

 

[Hectic Glenn]

I think I'm missing something here too. The ethics connected with human cloning have lead to it being banned most places, regardless of religious views.

 

[Acepilotf14]

Where's the punch line?
It's not like the Qur'an said to outlaw every scientific practice ever..
Oh, you wouldn't know that, would you?

 

[jverne]

Where's the punch line?
It's not like the Qur'an said to outlaw every scientific practice ever..
Oh, you wouldn't know that, would you?

god damn it guys!!!! i'm being sarcastic, of course there's nothing funny!

it's a pure example of stupidity being practiced.

read it again

Iran's cloning program has won backing from the Shiite Muslim religious leaders, who have issued decrees authorizing animal cloning but banning human reproductive cloning. A majority of Iran's nearly 70 million people are Shiite Muslims.

since in iran laws are made up by religious leaders, i can presume that they pulled out this decree based upon some stupid interpretation of the koran. obviously when the koran was written when they had no clue about cloning.
just pointing out the absurdness of religious leaders. how they make laws based on nothing.

why do you think human cloning is banned even in the western world? because of the enormous religious pressure.

look at korea for instance, they more or less are free to research human cloning.
technically cloning a human is not much different than an animal.


personally i'm against cloning humans, not because of religion but because i sense an enormous potential for exploitation and abuse.

 

[AJ Rimmer]

why do you think human cloning is banned even in the western world? because of the enormous religious pressure.

Not really. It might be because they "sense an enormous potential for exploitation and abuse." Y'know, maybe.

look at korea for instance, they more or less are free to research human cloning.

Your point being...?

personally i'm against cloning humans, not because of religion but because i sense an enormous potential for exploitation and abuse.

So you're against human cloning and Iran is against human cloning. Why make a ruckus? Y'know, religious leaders don't necesserily make bad choices all the time. Very often, but not all the time. And also, if Iran banned human cloning for the same reason the US, the EU and the UK did why make a fuss about it this time?

 

[jverne]

Not really. It might be because they "sense an enormous potential for exploitation and abuse." Y'know, maybe.

Your point being...?



So you're against human cloning and Iran is against human cloning. Why make a ruckus? Y'know, religious leaders don't necesserily make bad choices all the time. Very often, but not all the time. And also, if Iran banned human cloning for the same reason the US, the EU and the UK did why make a fuss about it this time?

you could be right, but wanna bet?
i bet their main reason was probably religious dogma.


oh man...that religion in korea doesn't have a strong grip like in our "western society".


of course religious people don't do just wrong things. but they normally try to connect their personal opinions (derived from non religious thought) with religious scripture/dogma. which is wrong in my opinion. since it promotes even more religious thought.

 

[Eejit]

technically cloning a human is not much different than an animal.

/facepalm
You realise there's a whole load of differences between different animals with regards to cloning, stem cells, IVF etc?

 

[jondy]

Mate, this whole thread is just one big facepalm, and I don't even like the meme

 

[Acepilotf14]

 

[jverne]

/facepalm
You realise there's a whole load of differences between different animals with regards to cloning, stem cells, IVF etc?

we'll yes it's a bit more difficult, but not that entirely different.

 

[Eejit]

we'll yes it's a bit more difficult, but not that entirely different.

I'm not even saying it's much more difficult, but it's very very different for different "animals".
There's a large variation there, I /facepalmed at you lumping it all together...

 

[jverne]

I'm not even saying it's much more difficult, but it's very very different for different "animals".
There's a large variation there, I /facepalmed at you lumping it all together...

well sorry. i didn't want to go into details. but we can all agree that it is possible with our current technology.

 

[Acepilotf14]

Non. We can't do a flawless cloning yet, we havn't tested it enough.

 

[jverne]

Non. We can't do a flawless cloning yet, we havn't tested it enough.

we'll yes but it's not that far off. with research being less restricted i'm sure we'd succeed.