atw: Re: Clone vs Clone

Sorry Peter,

Computers bear so little resemblance to the mechanisms of RNA and 
DNA that I am surprised that anyone would make such a claim. But 
then, I'm continuously surprised at how ignorant even our best media 
journalists are about anything scientific. 

My own view is that to talk of cloning and computing in the same 
sentence, let alone the same breath, is to extend a metaphor beyond 
its ballistic limit.

Even Nikki's initial cry was full of unexploded metaphors. Let's keep 
it simple so that computer-dependent,  science illiterate, homo 
non-sapiens can use it.

Brian.

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