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[Realmfighter]

You don't need to have an asshole to be an asshole.

[Outcast Orange]

Okay, remember Godwin's Law?

On B12, that applies directly to cloning and transhumanism.

[Realmfighter]

Orange's law?

[Creaca]

Incidentally, putting your DNA up on a humanwiki won't benefit you in any way. Do you think in a hundred years, somebody will use your DNA to bring you back to life? It doesn't work that way, they'll just pop a new person who's exactly like the old one. You'll still be dead.

If it is an exact copy of me, and the original me is dead and buried. Then it is, for all intents and purposes.. Me.

Unless you want to argue that 'Soul' crap.

[PTTG??]

It won't have all the experiences as you have had, but I suspect you already knew that. A clone of you in the future would simply be your identical twin, without the similarity of having been raised in the same way you where.
 
And we're already overpopulated as it is. Why would anyone want to clone someone from the past?

[Realmfighter]

Because everyone wants to punch out Hitler?

[Firehound]

@PTTG: watched star wars? Begun now has the clone wars!

Honestly though, that's the first of only two reasons I can think of, is flash cloning for armies, which isn't possible with today's technology.

Also, should we ever have some sort of disaster It'd be nice to have over minimal genetic diversity online.

[Virex]

It won't have all the experiences as you have had, but I suspect you already knew that. A clone of you in the future would simply be your identical twin, without the similarity of having been raised in the same way you where.

[german doctor accent]Ve can vix that. Bring ze scalpels and ze brain tranzver gerät and ve vil get to vork![/accent]

[kilakan]

Well if you have genetics stored online, there's always the ability to clone people to repopulate a planet, without having to make sure there's enough genetic diversity there in the people from earth.  It could also chart any evolutions the human race might experience that would otherwise go unnoticed.

[Grakelin]

Except the whole point of colonizing other planets is dealing with overpopulation here.

[PTTG??]

Well, there's also the extingency thing, and exploration and all.

[Grakelin]

Have explorers commonly been composed of massive hordes in the past?