• Gork@lemm.ee
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    People tend to shit on clones, but who else can come up with a large enough army to defend the Republic?

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      At 1/2^42 odds, you’re unlikely to have a large enough army to man a V Wing, much less defend the Republic

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    You didn’t factor recombination. Nobody ever receives any of their parents’ exact chromosomes, except the sex chromosomes from dad - each pair shuffles up the equivalent DNA between the 2 chromosomes, resulting in 2 chromosomes that are each a mix of both of that parent’s chromosomes of that pair, one of which is passed on to the child for each pair for each parent.

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    It’s unlikely to have ever happened.

    2^42 is 25 times the total number of people ever born in all of history.

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          I typically associate “clone” with “an exact copy”, with the same exact molecular layout and even thoughts. So a literal exact copy. Clones on a DNA basis, so something possible for years, would indeed be different in some details.

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            The definition of “clone” you believe in is science fiction nonsense. Why believe in nonsense when the scientific definition of clone is different?