User talk:Clozy101

Genetic Engineering and Cloning.

There are many people for genetic engineering, and many against. Plants are very often cloned, and animals have been attempted. Many people are against it, so it's said to be unlikely for it to go much further, although there have been things like stem cell research carried out recently. However, I've lately been reading articles and facts on genetic engineering, and the prospect of such a thing terrifies me.

Sure, it could be very useful. Medicines could be cloned and used, there could be organs cloned after being developed through genetic engineering, and cloning could be used to help to preserve endangered species. However, there are many risks involved with this, despite the fact that it could be very useful, and in my opinion, it shouldn't be continued any further.

Cloned animals could possibly not be as healthy as the original animals they are being cloned from. They could be unwell and could suffer. Is that really fair? Should we put an animal through all of that only for them to suffer and to even die? There was Dolly the sheep cloned in 1996, after 277 failed attempts. FAILED ATTEMPTS. Most sheep live to 11 or 12 years of age, but Dolly only lived to 6 years. She developed a progressive lung disease, which just shows that after all of that suffering and failed attempts, when finally there was a success, the end result suffered anyway! This is sick and should not continue, it's not fair and is just utterly insane.

Cloning is a very new science and people do not have much experience of the subject yet. There could be many consequences that we are not aware of. If animals are cloned and genetically engineered so that their genes are similar, and a disease arose that these animals could not fight- they would all die! They would all have the same genes and they would all be effected. What if all of the 'good' animals are cloned and the other animals and their characteristics were to be left to become extinct? We could seriously endanger our animals. It's just too much of a risk. There will be a huge lack of genetic variation- they will all be so similar, and when you are breeding animals, if they all have identical or similar genes, the offspring are very likely to have genetic defects and could die at such a young age. We would seriously endanger our animals if we were to let this continue!

So there's plant and animal cloning, which could be very dangerous. And what next? Human cloning? It's a definete possibility. It makes me sick to think of it. Human's- being cloned?! What is the world coming to? We are all individuals, imagine our future. Hundreds of the same humans in the world, walking down the street and seeing another one of you walking along the street too. It's just crazy, and I really believe that this is a terribly bad idea. Some scientists may find it interesting, and yes, I do understand why, there are so many possibilities with genetic engineering and cloning. But they don't realise that there are so many consequences and terrible risks that our world may not be able to fix in the future.

Imagine being a human clone. You are just a clone of another human being- you're not human, not by any means. You're just a clone of some other human that's out there enjoying life. You're a human clone, just a mere science experiment. You'd feel worthless, useless, you'd want to end your life. Who would want to live knowing that you're just a clone- you're not an individual, you're just a clone! Even a healthy clone would be psychologically damaged by the knowledge of this. It terrifies me to think of what the future holds. What is the world coming to? Human cloning? Imagine being a human, knowing that there are others of you out there- clones. You're no longer individual, you're no longer special- there are others of you out there! Like with plants and animals, I'm sure that they could produce many clones of the same human. It's just sick.

What if these clones really were treated like an object and just used as a machine? Just used for organ transplants for humans? Sure, it would be very useful. But it would be unbearably unfair on the clones. I fear for the future, I really do. And with the crazy ideas arising, I'm really beginning to wonder what the future holds. Please feel free to comment and leave your opinion.

(Clozy101 (talk) 15:30, 23 December 2010 (UTC))

Sims 3 Medieval
Sims 3 Medieval. Those beautiful hopeful words.

When I found out that this game was to be released, I acted like an excited teenager. Sims is the all new rage- everyone wants sims, just for the fact that you can practically do anything. Create your own city, your own house and everything inside it, your own family, get your own job- and you continue to raise your family, marrying some off, raising children with other families... bla bla bla. I love it, I really do. However, now comes a new phase. Sims medieval.

My first reaction was- WOW. Let's get this. I want this game. My reaction after just reading a popular game article? Ugh. For starters, you can't carry on your sim family through the generations. Your babies only grow to children, and guess what? They never become adults. That's an end to my dream of creating a family.

Oh, and it looks like we're back to Sims 2 again. You can't go to work with your sims, you can't go out of town with your sims. They can, but you can't go with them of course. You just get magical cards come up on your screen to tell you what they're doing. Magical cards? How old do they think we are- three?

Moreover, the only way your sim can really die is through execution, which sounds incredibly difficult to achieve. And you can't even create your own sims anyway! You have to pick between like six sims to play throughout the game. How much does that suck?

There's so much more that has made me think twice about this game. Please, save yourself thirty five pounds/dollars/whatevers. Buy yourself a skipping rope or something. For more disasdrous facts about what looked like a hopeful game, go to- http://www.gamepro.com/article/previews/216157/the-sims-medieval-preview

Have fun!

Clozy101 (talk) 12:50, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

Appeal for potatoes
I was sitting down, seriously bored today after doing a heap of coursework, and I thought, I'm going to microwave myself a butterly delicious potato. I'm not going to write an article going into the dynamics and parts of a beautifully juicy potato- I'm just going to talk. Because that's what I'm best at.

This article is to appeal for potatoes. These beautiful vegetables are being grown and sent out to families, and people don't even give them so much respect as to actually eat the- the word, I can't say it. You'll just have to wait.

Potato's are possibly the most beautiful thing on our planet. You can have them as they are, in their gracious skin, after just heating them up a tad. You can go crazy and peel them to death, and mash them up a bit- therefore having mash potato. Or you can have little sweet potatoes, which are just as equally lovely. You can have potatoes in so many ways.

But there's one serious problem. PEOPLE DON'T EAT THEIR SKINS. I can't hold it in any longer. What is up with people not eating their skins? My brother leaves his skin- it drives me crazy! He'll eat the yellow mush inside, and then just leave the skin on the side of his plate. How disrespectful? What runs through peoples heads when they leave their potato skins on the side of their plates? They go for the potato guts, and make a potato go through all of that, but don't even give them the respect of finishing them off?

Think for a minute. Just sit their and think. Imagine being one of the tiny busy cells in a potato skin. How would you be feeling? Just chucked aside on the plate- just left to rot. No one wants you, they're all just after the main potato. But a potato can never be the same without the skin. You're missing out on the best part of it- the skin is what makes a potato a potato!

If you are interested in campaigning with me against these cruel people, please leave a comment, although I'm new to wikipedia and I have NO idea how to do so. Think of the potatoes. Next time you have a succulent potato- look at the skin. Would you like to be that potato skin?

Clozy101 (talk) 13:16, 17 February 2011 (UTC)