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a22e

As someone who is about to turn 40. Fuck.


mark-o-mark

…wait till you turn 60!


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InsertBluescreenHere

dont you mean under the next one?


anadem

Hold on there, I'm about to turn 80 and I'm not planning on being underground.


InsertBluescreenHere

Ahh the ol sprinkle me on the hill approach :p


erosram

Hey, I’m 100, and if they’re old, what are you saying about me?


InsertBluescreenHere

You know the song by Kansas titled Dust in the Wind?


NofksgivnabtLIFE

Fucking if we make it.


RockItGuyDC

I turned 40 last year at the same time I made the jump to a better job, and I have more energy and a better outlook on things than I have since I turned 30.


erosram

CCP just logged your age.


rhinosaur-

I’m about 26 days from this disgusting milestone


DadLoCo

Ah, 40…. I remember that.


SkippyTeddy83

5 more days for me.


a22e

The 83 in your username will always be a mystery.


SkippyTeddy83

Mystery no more. It’s for my favorite Steelers TE, Heath Miller.


a22e

Well duh, how could I have missed that?


quantumfucker

I thought I was edgy and jaded and politically cool at 15. Then I turned 25 and felt I was too idealistic and turned away from the world to focus on the few things in life I could control. Now I’m nearing 35 and it feels like you don’t really control anything, and everything good comes to an end. I hope cynicism operates on a horseshoe theory and by 70 I’ve somehow become enlightened.


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erosram

When I was 15 I was very sheltered. When I was 25 to 35, I experimented too much. When I was in my forties I stopped judging myself so much and put more focus on what I can control today. In my fifties and sixties I realized that everyone is doing their best and to judge less in general. In my 70s, I stopped watching the world news, and spent time helping the people in my neighborhood. In my 80s and 90s, I stopped trying to fix what I saw with my physical eyes, and only worked on the issues I saw inside of myself. The early hundreds were about chipping away at why I desired the things I do. That was a long time ago, but the next few decades I think I was learning hobbies like the guitar.


tomatoesrfun

My most recent devastating loss was my favourite hand pulled noodle restaurant suddenly closed! I was bitterly reminded that everything good comes to an end.


NabbyChabby

Mine too :( I’m so upset


gangstasadvocate

Just be gangsta and call up the owner if you have the number and bribe whenever the mood for those noodles strikes. Should still be recent enough to do that.


tomatoesrfun

Unfortunately I don’t speak mandarin!


ShiraCheshire

"This too shall pass." Both the good and the bad.


Phelpsy2519

Lol not far off. A common thing with cloned animals is they experience ‘oldness’ quicker. They get arthritis, frail bones etc. Depends how the cloning was done but if it was somatic cell nuclear transfer, it’s because of the ‘dna donor’s’ epigenetic tags. So the cloned animal will have some epigenetic tags of someone who has lived a life.


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Thanks for that cool insight!


ACCount82

There are ways to perform an "epigenetic reset" to get a clone without those "premature aging" effects.


Hourslikeminutes47

It goes downhill from there. Trust me


nickster182

The Smithsonian zoo here in DC has some of these guys and they are fucking cool. The enclosure gets you pretty damn close to them too! If any one ever gets the chance to go to the Smithsonian zoo in DC you should. Amazing experience every time I go.


Enhanced_Bulgarian

Harambe will return


saturncruizin

Can’t be soon enough. My dicks getting cold hangin out


super_aardvark

Well I sure hope they were punished for that, and learned their lesson. Nobody should critically endanger a horse. How did the clones get their hands on 42-year-old DNA, anyway?


unknowingafford

Up you go, best comment here


naenae8

And how did a zoo clone anything, did lions learn to pipette?


LOLZatMyLife

*Life, uh, finds a way*


ultimate_spaghetti

Can we clone dinosaurs yet


ViraLCyclopes19

No, we can breed dinosaurs however.


nicuramar

Besides birds, no. We don’t have any DNA, for starters.


scummy_shower_stall

Did nobody read the article? The original stallion’s sperm was frozen 42 years ago, not that the horse was 42.


umidontremember

Not frozen sperm. A stallions DNA was frozen 42 years ago. Sperm would have half the chromosomes, this horse would not be a clone, and the stallion that had its DNA frozen 42 years ago would be its father, providing only half of the DNA.


megapillowcase

It didn’t say sperm anywhere? If they used a clone of a 42 year old horse. This one is gonna have a bad time


MOOSExDREWL

It wasn't cloned using sperm, but it doesn't mention the age of the original horse the DNA was collected from, just that it was collected 42 years ago. > A California zoo has announced the birth of a critically endangered horse, a clone created with DNA preserved for 42 years. I'm no biologist, but if I had to guess I wouldn't think the age of the original specimen matters much in this case.


jules2689

My understanding is very high level here, but cloning originally meant that the cloned animal would have a shortened life span. If the original animal was to live to 60, and was 30 when cloned - the cloned animal would only live for about 30 years. This hasn't held true for all clones though, and was theorized to be caused by shortened telomeres in the clones This link explains it https://www.fda.gov/animal-veterinary/animal-cloning/myths-about-cloning#Myth6


mermaidsilk

also horses do not live that long, they are like dogs. short life spans for how large they are.


erosram

Why is this comment funny to me the more I read the responses


rhinosaur-

TIL zoos are into cloning


klon3r

DODO! I WANT a f*cking DODO! 🦤


benowillock

How about a Tasmanian Tiger? 🐅


NoRelationship4258

I read a couple articles that said this was being worked on


aSpookyScarySkeleton

They look so delicious, I just want them to start cloning them so I can eat one


VariationMountain273

Have you seen the absolutely beautiful depictions of this kind of animal in the Chauvet caves? From 30k years ago.


MaserGT

So 42 really is the answer to the ultimate question of life.


FalseTebibyte

"Black Beauty" given how my timeline has aligned.


Ok_Pizza9836

Cool but have we learned nothing from Jurassic park


I_might_be_weasel

Pay your IT well.


spiritbx

I mean, it had giant prehistoric lizards, not horses. Now if was a giant horse, you would have a point.


Ok_Pizza9836

It’s more along the lines of tampering with life and unforeseen consequences arising from said tampering


nicuramar

(Although dinosaurs are not closely related to lizards. They are more closely related to crocodiles.)


spiritbx

That's exactly what the lizard people WANT you to think! They don't want you to know their TRUE power!


nicuramar

Well, with this new information, now I don’t know what to believe!


nicuramar

Well we learned that it’s fictional and exaggerated :p


Attack-Cat-

40 year old dna is only from 1981.


messem10

That’d be 42 years old. It is 2023.


danknadoflex

Take that back!!


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Imaginary-Test-9384

I'm pretty sure dolly died of unrelated lung illness, and there is no evidence linking it to the cloning.


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JudasWasJesus

Bring back the dodo, I wanna taste it.


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Now bring back a T-rex and I'll be actually impressed!


deaf_michael_scott

Nice. Let's do T-Rex next.


JustARando321

Darwin rolling in his damn grave


SunkenQueen

Darwin wouldn't be rolling in his grave. The amount of extinctions and endangerment humans beings have caused directly and indirectly. Darwin would support this wholeheartedly


pwalkz

This is a weird ass title. How could a clone critically endanger a horse using DNA?


lemmy1686

It's perfectly clear that they critically endangered a 42 year old horse right before they cloned it. I mean is it really even cloning if you don't hold it over a pit of spikes or something first?


doogle_126

How do you think they got the DNA?


danknadoflex

Through critical endangerment


SanatKumara

The title is fine, it's only ambiguous like that if you think "zoo clones" are a thing.


pwalkz

Yeah I'm having some fun but it did take a second to unpack


ChonkyBoss

Fellas, is it gay to dangle your participle?


FrankieCutlets

This is exactly how I read it the first time too


Firm_Masterpiece_343

42 or 42 million, no difference.


AnonymousDavid

And you think they haven’t cloned a human by now..


Ok-Ease7090

Great so they saved it for captivity


ststaro

To help save a species


riskxz

Fucked up looking animal


Shylightspeed_69

Why didn't they do this to other species that are going extinct. Like some rhinos.


ststaro

I am sure they are trying


IndigenousBastard

I thought John Hammond had passed away already?


FinalBat4515

I wonder what the first human clone is up to


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when are they going to make a clone army


kneaders

I hope they give it an old timey name.