Just a thought but imagine if by any chance, they have already secretly succeeded in accomplishing this. And imagine if they’re already doing it in secret. Do you think this is likely?

  • 🎇sparkles✨@lemy.lol
    1·
    3 hours ago

    Yes, I believe some cloned humans already exist at secret military facilities. Area 51. Super Soldier clones.

  • Ryoae@piefed.socialEnglish
    2·
    11 hours ago

    I hope not. If the billionaires haven’t yet figured out how to, then that’s a good thing. They’d be clawing to clone themselves if to remain in power.

  • TiredTiger@lemmy.ml
    2·
    24 hours ago

    I think this depends upon your definition of success. I think it could be done now such that you could get to a live birth, but not without serious health complications for the clone, probably resulting in an imprinting disorder or maybe something akin to progeria. You’d wind up with a sick infant instead of a healthy adult. Producing a copy of a human being as they are, if that is the definition of success, is still a ways away, probably a decade or more. This is without even considering the ethical issues with human cloning.

  • DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works
    13·
    2 days ago

    Yes, 100% the technology and skill is available today to clone a human.

    The ethics are dubious and nobody with that technology and skill is going to attempt it. They’re working on lab grown meat and replacement transplant organs.

    • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      I mean the technology is not that rare. Like the equipment the guy cured his lactose intolerance with (if he truly had) was borrowed but its really just chemicals and centrifuges and pipets until implantation. I mean somone rich enough could easily get a lab going in their mansion but yeah the average suburbanite bight not be able to get it all together.

      • Nemo's public admirer@lemmy.sdf.org
        3·
        1 day ago

        but I wouldn’t be at all surprised if there were or could be cloning operations in places like Russia, China, NK and Saudi Arabia, for example.

        Would it not be more likely for it to happen in USAmerica or EU?
        Make USAmerica great folk may not have an issue of having cloned soldiers. They seem to be having Nazi saluters too

        Regarding EU, less likely to be direct, but could be a partner to USAmerican programmes like how they actively go along for USAmerican invasions

          • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
            4·
            10 hours ago

            Yeah, the US would never commit unethical human experiments outside of MAGA types… Surely; only the dastardly foreigners would be so evil. MK ultra? Never heard of it.

  • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
    9·
    2 days ago

    100% it can be. Once it was done in animals there is nothing really keeping it done people and while im 100% on if it has been done secretly I would in no way be shocked to find out it had and think its more likely to have been than not.

  • monovergent@lemmy.ml
    19·
    2 days ago

    For sure, if some research institution were motivated enough. I won’t speculate if it’s happened in secret, but cloning a sheep brings us pretty close to being capable of cloning a human. I would be more surprised if 30 years since the cloning of Dolly, we haven’t advanced to the point where the only thing stopping us from cloning humans are ethical concerns.

  • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    I wouldn’t be surprised if a human was cloned. The issue right now seems to be resolving the ethical issues over the technical ones.

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.net
    6·
    2 days ago

    We’re either there or close, but just like last time you asked this, nobody’s going to do this in secret. They’d be bragging their asses off.

  • TrippinMallard@lemmy.ml
    33·
    2 days ago

    Probably not cloning like scifi where exact body scars, broken bones, & memories transferred.

    But china did try to hide some cloning human project researcher a while back. Not sure what happened there.