Cloning = useless??

Today, while doing nothing in my library, I overheard my "neighbours" talking about Dolly, the world's first cloned sheep. They were apparently researching on cloning and somehow they got to the topic of why Dolly died so fast after cloning. One of their team member suggested that cloning cells from the parent cell would mean the cloned cells are as old and worn out like the parents' cells. This means that even though the clone may look like a baby(if you manage to make the clone look like one), the baby would have had the same life span as his/her parent, aka they will still die at the same time(like if u clone me when im 10 years old, and i die at 20, my clone will live to be 10 years old only). I heard it and you know, it does sound plausible. If it is true, then its so sad :(. We cannot clone back some old geniuses like Einstein and wait for him to grow old normally so that the new Einstein clone can continue his research and this can continue until we have all sorts of cool stuffs! Oh well, I guess some things are just not meant to be.

So, do you want to be clones IF your baby self is a total brand new organism with new cells?

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