Posted on 02/11/2010 12:18:13 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Makes as much sense as trying to clone a Neanderthal.
The neanderthal represents a very advanced, extinct ape, basically the most advanced member of the same family as gorillas and chimpanzees. We are simply not a part of that family and are not related to it other than via similar design in the same way that Ford and Chevy models might be called "related".
Neanderthal DNA is typically described as about halfway between ours and that of a chimpanzee and it's highly likely that, like the great apes, the neanderthal might never have had voluntary control over breathing, which is the only reason that chimps and gorillas cannot be taught to speak English.
“How would you like to be the only member of your species brought back just to be prodded and studied.”
Oh heck, let’s bring a bunch of ‘em back. I don’t care they have some company. They’ll all be bred into the population after a few generations anyway. American melting pot, dontcha’ know.
“0bama EPA would never allow cloning mammoths because of their carbon footprints.”
And I’ll warrant that I wouldn’t “allow” them to make any physical footprints across my precious landscaping either! Mammoth steaks would be yummy though, and I could use their trunks for garden hoses to regrow the grass that they tore up.
C’mon! Let’s give ‘em a chance. We could put ‘em on government assistance till they got on their feet. If they’re a subspecies we could interbreed with them and they’d be just like all the rest of us mongrelized American’s within a hundred years or so. If they’re a separate species, it would present an economic opportunity. We could bring back the plantation system! Instead of using us Irishmen for dangerous jobs, we could impress them danged Neanders. It ain’t like they’re human by definition.
I’m gonna’ go look for some good bottom land if this cloning business catches on.
It would be a lonely, depressed and pathetic being. Especially if it were intelligent enough to understand how it came to be here and why. Given what we know of the way they lived it probably would be smart enough to figure that out.
The year is 1947. Some of you will recall that on July 8, 1947, a little over 60 years ago, witnesses claim that an unidentified flying object(UFO)with five aliens aboard crashed onto a sheep and mule ranch just outside Roswell, New Mexico. This is a well known incident that many say has long been covered up by the U.S. Air Force and other federal agencies and organizations.
However, what you may NOT know is that in the month of April 1948, nine months after that historic day, the following people were born:
Albert A. Gore, Jr..
Hillary Rodham
John F. Kerry
William J. "Bill" Clinton
Howard Dean
Nancy Pelosi
Dianne Feinstein
Charles E. Schumer
Barbara Boxer
See what happens when aliens breed with sheep and jackasses?
I certainly hope this bit of information clears up a lot of things for you. It did for me.
No wonder they support the bill to help illegal aliens!
Not correct. They are the same species as we are, Homo Sapiens. We're Homo Sapiens Sapiens and they were Homo Sapiens Neanderthalis
They wouldn’t breed back into the human population. The DNA studies in the late 90s cleared up the big mystery of there being no evidence of crossbreeding despite neanderthals and modern humans living in close proximity for prolonged periods of time. We could no more interbreed with neanderthals than we could with horses. The neanderthal was not another race, he was another species, gigantic difference.
“They wouldnt breed back into the human population. The DNA studies in the late 90s cleared up the big mystery of there being no evidence of crossbreeding despite neanderthals and modern humans living in close proximity for prolonged periods of time. We could no more interbreed with neanderthals than we could with horses. The neanderthal was not another race, he was another species, gigantic difference.”
Ping!
...more lib voters?
Well, what about those Gieco guys? Where did they come from?
SEIU central casting.
Oh. Ok. Then they’re not real cavemen huh? :-)
It was in Gardner Dozois' 2th volume of the years best science fiction. Ted Kosmatka’s “N-Words”
“It was in Gardner Dozois’ 2th volume of the years best science fiction”
That was supposed to be “the 26th volume”
Hell yeah.
With laser beams on their heads.
Now that's funny!
“The neanderthal was not another race, he was another species, gigantic difference.”
Uh oh. If they’re genetically that removed, then it’s more likely the plantation system will be back again. Think of this, they’ll do jobs that North American’s just won’t do as well. We won’t need all those illegal aliens with all of their attendant social costs. Unskilled labor is unskilled labor. It doesn’t matter who does it. If they’re smart enough (and some say the Neanders were not complete idiots) to make it to the work floor, or the field, then they’d smart enough to do a lot of this stuff. And since they aren’t really humans (sentience aside), they’d be prime candidates for exploitation.
Yeah, if sentience is a consideration it would complicate things. Elephants and whales haven’t had it so good at times, but some folks they are sentient as well. You couldn’t prove it as I’ve never lived with a whale or an elephant (but I’ve got a 10 and 12 year old that I’m beginning to wonder about). >:-(
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