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Q&A Is there a way for someone to be un-cloneable?

This story takes place about 300 years in the future and humanity has since come into contact with hundreds of alien races, you get the picture. Basically, I have this character who is half human a...

20 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Rhysing‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Rhysing‭

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Q&A Feasibility of making a clone with the same identity

So you decide to clone yourself, obviously the clone is a infant, but other wise looks perfectly identical. However, you start to think of how your new clone could be perfectly like you, in body st...

5 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by RotNDecay‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by RotNDecay‭

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Q&A Are "living" organ banks practical?

I was inspired by Dead Space which had cloned organ banks for transplants due to mining accidents. I honestly found this idea intriguing so what I'm wondering would it be practical or do better alt...

5 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Celestial Dragon Emperor‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Celestial Dragon Emperor‭

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Q&A How long would it take to revive an extinct race of people via cloning?

So there's this planet that, several decades earlier, suffered a massive famine and drought that made habitation impossible. Everyone still alive on this planet died, except for 2 escapees, both of...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by The Weasel Sagas‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by The Weasel Sagas‭

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Q&A How much organic matter is required to make a clone?

The premise of my story is somewhat similar to Jurassic Park in that a creature needs to be replicated from very little remaining organic matter. In this case, though, the relevant material is no...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by David Coffron‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by David Coffron‭

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Q&A Imitating the double body aspect of quantum entanglement with other tech"¦

I'm working on a scenario where one person can be at two places at the same time, kind of like a mirror version of themselves where the original person controls both bodies even though the two bodi...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Len‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Len‭

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Q&A Synthesis of Organic Life by a Machine

Given eggs and sperm, and the means to preserve them for centuries, could an artificially intelligent machine possibly produce its own "children", so to speak? Assume it has everything it and its ...

5 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by R. Greenlee‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by R. Greenlee‭

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Q&A Methods to Implant Serial Numbers in/on Clones

I am writing a science fiction story with mass produced clones. Since I have a number of clone I need to tell them apart. The ID system must be: Permanent over the lifetime of the clone (call it ...

4 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Englishman Bob‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Englishman Bob‭

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Q&A How could we clone an alien?

Let's assume that sometime in the next year, we receive a transmission from deep space containing what appears to be blueprints of an alien genome. After extensive study and determining that the da...

3 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Z.Schroeder‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Z.Schroeder‭

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Q&A What would be the psychological consequences of clones being synchronized on a regular basis?

When confronted with cloning which leaves the original alive, there is the known issue that the clone could want to replace the original (e.g. as seen in The 6th day). A shared consciousness is ver...

3 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Ayutac‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Ayutac‭

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Q&A What would society be like if the world was populated by a chosen set of clones?

It's 100 years in the future, and we've decided to end all war and crime. How do we plan to accomplish this? Through rigorous study of personality theory and human interaction, we've identified 5...

5 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by codebreaker‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by codebreaker‭