Thursday, May 22, 2008

Puppy clones? Going once, going twice ...

Biotech firm offers to reproduce dogs for 5 highest bidders

SAN FRANCISCO - A Northern California biotech company announced Wednesday that it will clone dogs for the five highest bidders in a series of online auctions. Some ethicists condemned the offer, fearing it could lead to human clones.

Opening bids start at $100,000 for the service being offered by Mill Valley-based BioArts International. The cloning process is to be performed by a South Korean scientist who suffered international disgrace after being found to have faked research.

BioArts chief executive Lou Hawthorne formerly ran Genetic Savings & Clone, which offered to clone pet cats for $50,000 but folded in 2006 because few were willing to pay so much.

TOOBAD FOREVERRRRR!!!haha

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unwillingly entering enclosed pressure

today i noticed
on two different encounters
bugs

one of them
crawling up the wall of the bathroom
as i stared at it
i asked myself
should i kill it?
or should i just ignore it?

then i was sitting on the couch
and a tiny little bug
crawling across the paper
caught my eye
so tiny
smaller than an ant
and then it made me think of the first one

and then i thought
is this why we came back?
to nothing
forgetting for a few days was lovely

everything started to come back
the closer and closer we got

i'm sure we all felt the same.