StoryTime

Luis from Antman is my spirit animal

[himynameisemail]

[delta-breezes]

[acomaflove]

Rhysand: We take matters in the night court very seriously.

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Also Rhysand: I will conclude this meeting by saying………the floor is lava.

~everyone in the room freezes~

Cassian: *scrambling* SHIT

Feyre: *jumping on Rhysand’s back* STOP DOING THIS

Morrigan: *hopping on a table* NOT AGAIN

Azriel, already sitting with his legs fully up on a couch: I win.

[chrishayley]

PADDY CONSIDINE The House that Dragons Built (2024) - Episode 6

[tomcruisingthroughlife]

[azoraahai]

HARRY POTTER MEME: day 1, houses Well done on becoming a member of the cleverest, quirkiest and most interesting house at Hogwarts. ( insp )

[catchymemes]

[themaskismyface]

My show is being rebooted. We have better executives now.

[evansbby]

Chris Evans explains why he’s an ass man.

[jellyjamheadobb]

[thelandofmemes]

[catchymemes]

[daveydoodle]

[emmaharwoods]

Zendaya at the 2024 Met Gala (May 6, 2024)

[catchymemes]

[pinkfairiesteaparty]

[catchymemes]

[crocketthoughton]

[rowark]

So basically, Dolly the sheep was an accident. They were trying to clone sheep cells, and they ended up unintentally generating an embryo, which turned out to be viable, hence we got Dolly.

The method they used proved unsuccessful in primates, and the risk of cloning primates (and thus humans) outweighs the benefits (because there really aren't any real benefits, scientifically speaking), so they don't do it.

Where it's most likely to be used is in agriculture, cloning livestock embryos.

What they use cloning for is stem cells. Cloning adult cells to create stem cells means they don't need embryonic stem cells, which is probably the most important thing that came from cloning research in the past 25 years.

The reason it was so important was that it proved that you didn't need an embryonic cell to clone live animals. The nucleus of an adult cell contains all the DNA you need to clone, because Dolly was cloned from an adult cell, which was previously unheard of. Now they know that adults cells can be reprogrammed back to an embryonic stage, and was a major breakthrough for stem cell research.

So basically, we don't hear about cloning anymore because they aren't doing anything that is so exciting it will capture the world's interest, like Dolly did. But it was a major scientific breakthrough that is still very important.

[andmaybegayer]

One of my favourite cloned animals is Kurt, a Przewalski's Horse who was cloned from the preserved samples from a horse that died in the 90's so that he can hopefully introduce some additional genetic diversity into the Przewalski's Horse population. Oh hey there's actually two clones of this one horse now, the second one is Ollie who was born last year. Kurt is now about four years old. Last I checked he was at the San Diego Zoo.

We don't tend to clone animals that are more common because we already have a very efficient machine for making sheep, it's called sheep.

[jame7t]

The fact that Tesla autopilots abort self driving 1 second before a crash so the company can state “self driving wasn’t active during the collision” should be grounds to dismantle the entire company.

Like, seriously, if you’re making 4000 pound death machines, and you program this shit to work on a technicality? Your company should be dismantled. Gone. No recourse. Just terrible shit dude