Doomsday Scenarios!?!
Question: What would be the worst Doomsday scenario about human clones that you can come up with?
Answers: What would be the worst Doomsday scenario about human clones that you can come up with?
How about give me a clone or give me death. What a scary thought. Here's the scenario I have. The wealthy would gain more out of this than middle Americans. They could clone themselves and take the body parts needed to live longer so that they can protect their wealth. This would be a form of killing for those parts. But, then, money talks.
Half the population of Earth is now clones because people have decided they don't really like surprises and so instead of randomly combining sperm and eggs, they pick which "model" they want and get the clone started in a dish and implanted. But the thing about cloning is that it doesn't make a perfect animal because the genetic imprinting is a little off. (A bit of real science here: some of the bases in our DNA are methylated, which serves to control gene expression to some degree. During gametogenesis, the methylation pattern is completely wiped from the sperm or egg and redone to make a "maternal" or "paternal" pattern. This is pretty important for normal development.) The scientists think they've got the genetic imprinting problem under control and they have a synthetic imprinting technique that makes normal, healthy people. However, they didn't do as good a job as they thought they did. Around the age of 30-40, all the clones start to show signs of a neurodegenerative disease that makes them uncontrollably aggressive and murderous. The non-clones want to lock up or kill all the clones because you never know exactly when they're going to go bad. The clones don't want to be locked up or killed and instead want to remain free and look for a cure. So naturally there is a war between the clones and the non-clones which is heartbreaking because you naturally have families split up on opposite sides. Anyway, then one of the clones, who happens to be a genius science whiz, announces he's found the cure but he's gone evil by then and won't share it unless... oh I don't know, he makes some kind of horrible demand (massive human sacrifice, perhaps) and people meet it because they think it's the only way to save the world. But actually it turns out he didn't have the cure at all and what he'd been working on in his lab was a device to destroy the world. ..which he then uses because he's crazy.
idk about clones...i think robotics are going to be our downfall...i watched "I, Robot" again last night(nothin else was on) but that movie really gets you thinking "what if"...freaky
but about clones...they could steal your identity