Alexander Hollins
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:29:47 -0800
You know, as a writer, I'm tempted to take that final line as a challenge. The only question, do i make the shroud be actually stains of christ, or some other dude?
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: > http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre5aj3d3-us-italy-galileo-find/ > > Apparently body parts and teeth from Galileo were cut from his corpse by > scientists during a burial ceremony held after his death in 1642. End of > story? Don’t count on that. > > DNA from teeth and hair can be extracted, multiplied and sequenced - long > after death. In fact there is a decent chance (in the spirit of Jurassic > Park) that a few recently extinct species will be cloned and brought back > from extinction within the next decade. Researchers at Penn State University > have sequenced about 85% of the gene map of the woolly mammoth, using DNA > taken from hair samples that are tens of thousands of years old. Dr Wakayama > from the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Japan, believes that a > technique she has used to clone mice from specimens frozen and dead for > sixteen years could be used to take the next step. > > Imagine the implications of a steady supply of exceptional human geniuses. > Yes, it is easy to over-exaggerate, but imagine being one of a few “natural > born” teen students in a classroom of cloned, highest genius-level > “returnees”: Galileo, Da Vinci, Dirac, Isaac Newton, Louis Alvarez etc… > Heck… old Al (Albert E.) might not even make the cut. > > Of course, there is *zero assurance* that the “clone of a genius” will > follow in the footsteps of the progenitor, and likewise rise to the same > level of accomplishment - but there is also absolutely no doubt that some > wealthy individual will try to find out. > > Probably the same guy who was high bidder on Galileo’s teeth. > > Jones > > BTW – the implications of cloned DNA from the Shroud of Turin has already > been explored in (poorly written) fiction.