Goonhub
05-22-2013, 04:04 AM
Some people think the ease of cloning makes life cheap. And doctors useless, why bother with healing and cpr when cloning is a fix-all.
Cloning is also much easier than robotics; you just stick a body in the machine and punch a few buttons. For a borg, you need source materials, and a little time to put it all together.
What if to produce a clone you need to put some effort, like a botanist to grow a tray of stuff.
You would have to load the cloner with source materials. Flesh (synth, monkey, human), blood, oxygen, maybe some optional extras (hairgrownium, or clones come out hairless). And electricity, think Frankenstein.
You put in the body to clone, you load the ingredients, set a temperature and voltage, and let the machine run. Every once in a while you take a peek at how the clone is coming out.
It could start developing defects or serious anomalies that you would have to correct -think like a plant withering or watered too much- maybe changing the heat up or down, adding more flesh of a specific type (too little human flesh and tumors start to grow), or changing the current voltage.
I don't mean to turn cloning into a cryptic process, just something that requires a bit of interaction, so it can't happen all by itself. Think hydroponics, but with bodies.
Cloning is also much easier than robotics; you just stick a body in the machine and punch a few buttons. For a borg, you need source materials, and a little time to put it all together.
What if to produce a clone you need to put some effort, like a botanist to grow a tray of stuff.
You would have to load the cloner with source materials. Flesh (synth, monkey, human), blood, oxygen, maybe some optional extras (hairgrownium, or clones come out hairless). And electricity, think Frankenstein.
You put in the body to clone, you load the ingredients, set a temperature and voltage, and let the machine run. Every once in a while you take a peek at how the clone is coming out.
It could start developing defects or serious anomalies that you would have to correct -think like a plant withering or watered too much- maybe changing the heat up or down, adding more flesh of a specific type (too little human flesh and tumors start to grow), or changing the current voltage.
I don't mean to turn cloning into a cryptic process, just something that requires a bit of interaction, so it can't happen all by itself. Think hydroponics, but with bodies.