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  1. Alcoholic Beast Alcoholic Beast

    22 years ago, human-scientists cloned a sheep. Dolly the Sheep they called her. But I am pretty sure it suffered from something that sounded like 'checkerboard'-ism? If someone knows the exact name of that, I would love to know it, for google is not playing nice with me on that font.

    Friday, 08-Mar-19 23:10:35 UTC from web
    1. Scribus Scribus

      @drinkingpony I want to say "accelerated decrepitude," but I'm just stealing that from "Blade Runner." It was along those lines, though.

      Saturday, 09-Mar-19 02:46:34 UTC from web
      1. Scribus Scribus

        @scribus Actually, reading the 'pedia, it seems she died of a fairly common lung ailment in sheep, and wasn't really found to have anything "genetically wrong" or whatever other than short telomeres (aglets for DNA).

        Saturday, 09-Mar-19 02:51:42 UTC from web
      2. Alcoholic Beast Alcoholic Beast

        @scribus I was thinking of the developmental issue that arrised when there were essentially two blueprints of the sheep to be found inside of Dolly.

        Saturday, 09-Mar-19 14:09:14 UTC from web
        1. Scribus Scribus

          @drinkingpony Huh. I found nothing about that in my brief and ultimately distracted-by-tangents search.

          Saturday, 09-Mar-19 15:12:56 UTC from web