Creating a Humanzee

2PhiloVoid said:

It's a word associated with Oppenheimer.

The point being: sometimes in science, we don't always know when to stop short of making unwise research decisions.

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Hans Blaster said:

If you mean plutonium, Oppenheimer didn't create that (it was Seaborg) and there is no "e" in plutonium. If it is some related string of words, I know not what they are. Plutonium is made in the same places that uranium is made, most likely merging neutron stars. It occurs naturally even on Earth. The first human synthesized plutonium was made by the same process still used to create heavy isotopes artificially, bombarding a heavy nucleus with a light nucleus. The same people created the next element (Americium) just a few years later. You probably have some of that in your home.

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2PhiloVoid said:

Anyway, humanzees are a stupid idea.

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2PhiloVoid said:

Only trace amounts of it occur naturally, Hans. Trace amounts.

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2PhiloVoid said:

Anyway, humanzees are a stupid idea.

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Hans Blaster said:

Agreed.

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Landon Caeli said:

Scientifically speaking, creating a humanzee would be no different from how we've created Ligers and Mules. So why haven't we created a humanzee yet, knowing it's entirely possible and super easy?

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Jipsah said:

Because it is neither. It has been tried several times, and failed each time.

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AV1611VET said:

No soul?

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Jipsah said:

No life. No nothing. Inanimate glob of cells. Makes a great End Times Creep Show, though, doesn't it?

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AV1611VET said:

Sci Fi is more Fi today than Sci.

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Landon Caeli said:

Scientifically speaking, creating a humanzee would be no different from how we've created Ligers and Mules. So why haven't we created a humanzee yet, knowing it's entirely possible and super easy?

Many say it's an issue of morality. But why would it be, considering a humanzee would be neither human, nor chimp. What would be a worst or best case scenario in this situation? Being the eternal optimist that I am, I envision a friendly pet-like companion, like a dog, but much smarter. It's not like it would be in a constant state of pain, like some kind of groaning Frankenstein - nature doesn’t allow animals to live in perpetual pain. Perhaps they could even be trained to do our work for us? Like picking fruit in the fields? Or factory work, or other jobs humans don't particularly like doing? For thousands of years we've been using horses in similar ways - I don't see how a humanzee would be any different.

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