I think the dollar cloning is what got us into this mess in the first place.

Still pretty cool survival mechanism.


/Get out of the microscope basement kid.

Wonko Fortytwo: I think the dollar cloning is what got us into this mess in the first place.

I think it began when the sand dollar was dropped from the goldfish standard.

Einsamvarg: Wonko Fortytwo: I think the dollar cloning is what got us into this mess in the first place.

I think it began when the sand dollar was dropped from the goldfish standard.

Yur right matey. But they's be compensatin'!

Repeat, even though it has a funnier headline.

Ravie: Repeat, even though it has a funnier headline.

It's not a repeat, it's just cloning itself to increase chances of a greenlight. Evolution in action.

Funnier headline? Just how lame was the original?

Does this make them all abominations in the eye of god, or did god put those critters there to tell humans cloning is ok?

/flame on

morning_foil: Damn those sand dollars. We should nuke them into the ground.

Glass dollar parking lot?

Anyone pick up on "Dawn Vaughn"?

Just how twisted were HER parents at the naming ceremony?

Sand Dolly

This is indeed a repeat.

beoswulf
Ravie: Repeat, even though it has a funnier headline.

It's not a repeat, it's just cloning itself to increase chances of a greenlight. Evolution in action.

Well played.

geegee101: Anyone pick up on "Dawn Vaughn"?

Just how twisted were HER parents at the naming ceremony?

You think that is bad - National Radio DJ and TV celeb in the UK called Sarah COX and just called her new son ISSAC

I for one welcome our new sand dime masters.

Clone her I didn't even know her!

I'd buy that for a dollar.

Begun the Sand Dollar Clone War has.

I'll be here all week! Try the veal!

Silver dollars.

So it begins...

Einsamvarg: Wonko Fortytwo: I think the dollar cloning is what got us into this mess in the first place.

I think it began when the sand dollar was dropped from the goldfish standard.

I think this post wins.

Are they all Spocks?

google stalker powers activate:

Form of: a photo left on a cached page:


Shape up, a secondary home page:
http://staff.washington.edu/dvaughn/

The cached page
http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:LVwE3kWFS44J:www.biology.washington.edu/ind ex.html%3FnavID%3D41%26parecID%3D586+Dawn+Vaughn&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client =firefox-a

Does someone has issues with Ben's last name?.

I mean, I read Bernanke everytime as Bukkake.

Isn't this a total misuse of the word "clone"? It seems more like plain old asexual reproduction to me.

When I get nervous, my, um, camouflage reflex kicks in...

very funny headline

The word clone has several meanings, and one of them is asexual reproduction. Via asexual reproduction the sand dollars are making genetic clones of themselves. Also, it's parsimonious to say "cloning" rather than "asexually reproducing" if you are having to say/write it a lot. Finally, "cloning" = coverage in the popular press, in a way that "asexually reproducing" probably does not.

/nice to see coverage of a cool science story!

serial_crusher: Glass dollar parking lot?

And you won't need to put down any of those traffic bumps.

"it makes like Dr. Evil from the Austin Powers movies and clones itself."

*nose pinch*

Why was this allowed to be published?

as some one who likes to collect sand dollars off the beach..

/getting a real kick
//etc
///gosh this is just as humorless when i do it as all the others

Genius headline.

MightySausage: Isn't this a total misuse of the word "clone"? It seems more like plain old asexual reproduction to me.

No, and yes, in that order. Plain old asexual reproduction IS cloning, which is defined as the production of a genetically identical second individual, without altering the original individual (as opposed to splitting processes which creates two new individuals and destroy the original). If you're familiar with a stronger meaning of "cloning," that's just from science fiction and wonky science writing in the popular media.

Hahah... amazing headline, submitter.