Fascist sperm busts DNA frontier

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Rome (AFP) - Forensic experts in Italy said Thursday they had reconstructed the DNA of a national war hero and poet by analysing semen he left on a handkerchief given to a lover 100 years ago.

In a global first, the proto-fascist warmonger Gabriele D'Annunzio's DNA was reconstructed without exhuming his remains, forensic police said, raising hopes the technique could be used to solve cold cases.

D'Annunzio (1863-1938) gave the semen-splashed hankie to his lover,
Countess Olga Levi Brunner, in 1916 as a souvenir after a night of passion.

Lets clone the Fascist --- and start a clone war

Wasn't that the plot point for Star Trek "the Space Seed" ???

Foundation chief Giordano Bruno Guerri joked that the experiment might even open the door to the future cloning of historical figures even if their remains have been lost.

"Nobody wants to clone D'Annunzio, but nobody knows what changes will take place in science and society. It's good the DNA has been collected," he said.

Nobody? Don't be too sure about that.

a reply to: wasaka

He would be very proud. Fascists have taken root worldwide.

a reply to: wasaka

So what cloning a fascist doesn't guarentee his future, experience is as much a factor as genetics infact let prove the hypothesis and go ahead and start cloning dictators and mad men and see what happens.

a reply to: wasaka

You do realize that even if they cloned a full sized human, he wouln't be 'facist' unless he was taught that right?

You can't 'clone' somebody's memories or brain patterns or life history.

So..yeah..there's that.

~Tenth

The only thing shocking here is that someone gifted a sperm smeared handkerchief to his girlfriend....

Maybe I will try that next valentines...

originally posted by: TechniXcality
a reply to: wasaka

So what cloning a fascist doesn't guarentee his future, experience is as much a factor as genetics infact let prove the hypothesis and go ahead and start cloning dictators and mad men and see what happens.

Yes, let's go for it.

If someone attempted to create a Superman Army using this method
it might just turn out to be a bunch of slobs with the same DNA =)

Khan Noonien Singh, commonly shortened to Khan, is a fictional villain in the Star Trek science fiction franchise. The character first appeared in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Space Seed" (1967), and was portrayed by Ricardo Montalbán who reprised his role in the 1982 film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. In the 2013 film Star Trek Into Darkness, he is played by Benedict Cumberbatch.

The character once controlled more than a quarter of the Earth during the Eugenics Wars of the 1990s

a reply to: asen_y2k

Perhaps she gifted him the sperm hanky and she kept it for nastalgia . Seems more reasonable than a jerking off fascsit saying here my love behold my sperm filled hanky I achieved while thinking of you in the latrine seems strange even in that day in time.

originally posted by: TechniXcality
a reply to: asen_y2k

Perhaps she gifted him the sperm hanky and she kept it for nastalgia . Seems more reasonable than a jerking off fascsit saying here my love behold my sperm filled hanky I achieved while thinking of you in the latrine seems strange even in that day in time.

LOL - a true sign of love!

a reply to: tothetenthpower

Shhh. Let the Italians go with it.