h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

There is a X-mas story with them, right?

Cloning? They will go all the way, they just take it step by step, so people slowly get used to it and don't revolt...

Have to go experimenting now...

Yup, they have a X-mas story.. That's just about the only tradition we have left in my jaded home; my father reading the Mumies Christmas Tale aloud for the whole family. It's great fun!

Muumintroll it is!

Too far, I guess. Whereever it will be. But I still think that forbidding is not a solution. They will do the tests anyway and we just won't know.

You might have a point... Better to control than ban and loose control... It's a sad world..

Muumuntroll? You're finnish are you?

What an utterly absurd conversation! Mummitroll and cloned embyroes.
It's too early for me, I need some coffee first..
*sits down, a bit dizzily*

Good morning Bumblebee! Don't be thrown off by this.. It's all a part of the wonders of cyberspace!

Does any of you remember the first time you were on the net?

*coming back for a quick break*

I think you can't really conrol it in any way...

But the Mumin-X-mas-story is one of my favourites.

Hi Bumblebee, how are you this morning?

We just had a fire alert at work - and it was a real one...

A fire? Since you're back allready, I guess it wasn't major...?

Wrong smiley.. Right smiley:

I'm not finnish, but not so far from Finland I live. And all isuues about genetics and cloning etc are quite popular here.
IIEM, , please.

My first time online was (I think)at an open day at university and I didn't do a lot because I didn't know where to go...
My first e-mail account was quite more funny as I tried to get one with a friend in Belfast, both of us not knowing anything about computers sitting there in front of a very slow computer with a letter from her brother telling us what to do, it took us hours...from then on we always went to the computer together making it kind of a social event reading books while the other one was mailing... - nice hours those were...

What about you?

this is getting a really confusing conversation, well the fire wasn't major, I guess but there was A LOT of smoke...

It was some non-graphic BBS (?) I think.. My father was quite early and showed me it all.. Downloaded quite a few shareware games... I think the "browser" was called ProCom or something... good fun indeed...

Control might be hard of course, but look to USA when they tried to ban alcohol... Ok, cloning might be a different thing alltogether, as it's not really part of our culture in the same way as wine, but still... It's better to at least try and control rather than just say "no" and then loose all idea of what's going on.... isn't it?

IIEM, more coffee please.....

Come to think of it Hatifnat, I've allready discovered where you're from once before... So very embarassing that I no longer remember.. Is it Estland?

I just think it's something different with humans and when they start with 14 day old embryos now, you can tell that will allow more soon. I know that banning it isn't a solution, and I don't have a different solution, but it still scares me...anyway the technology is there now and you can't stop people from using it anymore, that's just the way it is...

Have to go back to the lab now...see you all later

See you! I wonder who'll get postin no. 1000 this time...

I take it there are no P1K problems with this server?

There won't be any no 1000 this side of newyear at this rate...
*checks watch*
Ah, lunchtime!

*quickly pops in before leaving for lunch just to get a posting closer to no. 1000*

Actually I think that I would enjoy getting no. 999 even more...