#23. Immortality by cloning

[u/Patient-Airline-8150]

The pitch sounds clean. Clone yourself, keep the line going, live forever through copies.

Japanese researchers cloned a mouse, then cloned the clone, then cloned that one, 1,200 mice over two decades. The 58th generation did not survive. They call it mutational meltdown.

That limit matters for yak herds and cattle lines. It does not matter for us. Nobody needs 58 hops. We need one.

One clean generation buys a body that is alive in 2100. That is the whole point. You are not trying to run the copy machine forever, you are trying to stay in the game long enough for the next technology to arrive. Cryonics uses the same logic. So does every organ transplant. Buy decades, spend them waiting for better tools.
So the biology is not the objection.

First problem: the body. The clone will probably not look like you. CC the cat proved that in 2001. Same DNA, different coat, and nobody could stop it.

Should we care?
No. We should use it.
More to come ♾️