9/11 hero mutt cloned

Puppies

Look at the photo... Cutie little puppies... They damn should be if they cost 144k each! ;)

wow..

those beautiful german shepherds that look like every other german shepherd pup, just amazing that new science gadgetry stufff....amazing....

The cloned dog is named "Deja-Vu"

I know that I've seen that dog somewhere before???????

McClone, can I take your order...

I'll have two Dannii Minogue's a side order of Christina and a Paris. Make it go.

Actually make that a 'Diet Paris.'

Ch-ching.

A better idea

You know, instead of cloning the dog, they could clone the terrorists instead. That way they could give them a televised show trial and then execute them.

The price of a single canine copy at $144K?

Or more correctly;

The price of a single canine copy at $144K, and you get the dead mutant stillborns free!

The current cloning process does not produce perfect clones first time (who knows maybe the failures don't suffer, but if they do the owner is responsible for this suffering, not that caring of a lost loved one perhaps?), and in fact because of the need to use eggs from a donor and use a surrogate, the clone usually has DNA from both and isn't really a clone, technically a chimera the animal has been produced by cloning techniques but is not a true clone as it won't be genetically identical (close, but not identical).

huh?

What was special about the dog? That it did what it was trained for? Or is it special because sad sad human attribute the dog some sort of human emotions and reactions? Was it brave because it went into the wtc although to the dog it was just a smelly place with noice?

Seriously its just a damm dog.

mad

a barking idea

what is stopping us/you/them

from actually cloning a person, and if it is only ethics, how many clones have been made already? Also, what (aside from the cash) would stop me or anyone else from getting a public sample of someones DNA from ....something ... they have discarded in the trash, a used bandage perhaps, and having a clone made. How about a little creative grave robbing, eg: Marilyn Monroe. Seems like the famous and recently dead would be ripe (pun intended) for this.

Granted you would *probably* wait for the clone to come of age before you could legally make the beast with two backs with Marilyn v2.0. That is provided Clones have rights, do they?

Then there is the whole crimes committed by clones who's originator has the perfect alibi. So much for DNA evidence..

I could go on, but I have samples to collect ;)

mines the one with the swab and petrie dish in the pocket.

Well thats all fine and dandy...

...until in an unforeseen turn of events they all turn into rabid, savage, mutant, hell-hounds bent on revenge against their genetic meddling overlords!

I for one am stocking up on guns & ammo & poisned steaks...

These stories help scientific understanding.

"The physical similarities are uncanny. He's the spitting image of the Trakr that I first met in 1995. He has exactly the same markings, the way he moves, everything. Very alert, very intelligent and intuitive."

So we have five baby shepherds uncannily moving like baby shepherds do (well, if the little 1pound Trustt walks like a 45pound shepherd, we're deep in the twilight zone I admit)? Stop the presses!

More interestingly, you have 5 genetically identical dogs, and even the teareyed owner notices four of them hardly resemble the 6th. Why? Because DNA goes only so far. Same DNA and different methylation (i.e., activation of genes) pattern... and even if they start the same (as in identical twins) then the differences increase over the lifetime.

Newsflash! Dawkins has been consciously lying to you for 20years, disclaiming epigenetics and all other non-"DNA=sourcecode" findings. (Well, might be sourcecode, but only if you put lots of power and parameters separately in the compiler.) Good thing he's been replaced by less of a mediawhore.

Excellent

I'm glad that noone made a cheap shot about South Korea and dogs. That would have been awful.

@Filippo

He's talking about the mitochondrial DNA. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_DNA) This is DNA that is gained only from your biological mother by way of the ovum.

Generally this DNA has no real effect on an organism (at least not in the way that nuclear DNA, the DNA in each cell's respective nuclei, controls your various physical features).

PS: "Nuclear DNA" would be a great name for a band.

Nice to know...

...there was absolutely NOTHING else to spend that money on. Maybe support for resuce workers with lung problems?

Why not replace every dog on earth with clones of that dog, that way massive building collapses due to poor design will never happen again! YAY! Flowers!

You know it makes sense.

And flames, because fire-rated fire stairs help when you see them....

Trackr died of lung disease contracted during the search of the WTC

Trackr died of lung disease contracted during the search of the WTC post 9-11. He was 11 or 12 at the time.

He waited for you...

Fry.