Clones and WW3 (thanks Star Wars...)

It is just a matter of time and it will happen...

Published on August 11, 2005 By relswick In Biology

Funny how Star Wars used the Clone Wars in Episode II used Clones for fighting a war and here we are in 2005 and a mouse, dog and sheep have now been successfully cloned!

What next? Well, unlike the Star Wars clone development, where the clones come out of the factory at an adult age, our clones have to follow the normal age progression from birth - youth - adult - elderly - death.

So, the next time there is a prolonged World War, will some nation start their own little Cloning program to build their soldiers? Seems there was a movie not too long ago with Kurt Russell along these lines. Perhaps if Chine gets into a non-nuclear war with the US, then can the US at 300 million take on the 1000 milion+ of China or will we revert to clones? I doubt it, but the possiblity exists for such in the future.

Comments

sushiK

on Aug 11, 2005

Well the idea is laughable right now

Put 100 years on the board and the world could be closer to "Clone Wars"
I think AI and machines will be more viable than clones in a War though.

bakerstreet

on Aug 12, 2005

I don't think it will come to it for a couple of reasons.

Clones have to eat, just like anyone else, and unless they fundamentally change the brains of the people they clone, they won't be any more dedicated or useful than the average solider. Why waste the money on the science of making and raising soldiers from the test tube? If you could photocopy soldiers, I might agree with it more, but banking on a baby growing up to be a man and still wanting to be your tool is pretty dicey.

Second, the soldier-on-the-ground is working on borrowed time. The only reason we rely on such right now is the fact we make war with nations far less powerful than us, and we are unwilling to do massive damage to civilian populations. At the same time, scientists are working away at finding the Next Big Thing, whether that be in gravity research, space weapons, whatever. Once more nations become nuclear powers, which they most certainly will, and we care less about civilian casualties, which I think we will, the soldier on the ground will be less efficient.

Add the two together, and I believe we'll come up with something vastly more devestating and cheap long before we perfect the kind of cloning we'd need to make armies of cloned drones. I tend to think there'll be another world war long before we have any big leap in science, anyway.

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