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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five Books About Duplicating Human Beings
Date: Sat, 17 May 2025 14:46:25 -0400 (EDT)
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Bobbie Sellers  <blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
>	Duplication of a human being is not cloning.

Cloning never goes well.  cf. Sleeper, or Boys from Brazil.  

On the other hand, duplication has some issues.  For example,
the situation in Spock Must Die.

>	Duplication takes something like the the Star Trek transporter
>which has sufficient memory to hold the whole human database and
>facilities for recreation in another instance.  It has been used in
>stories to move instances of human persons to very remote as in
>other star systems to solve problems or to cause them.

No doubt they keep tape backups of those red-shirted guys who need
constant replacement.
--scott

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