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Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo

30 points by gscott 2 hours ago | 11 comments

walrus01 49 minutes ago

For a brief moment I thought this would be about something like robotic polo ponies, and considered the idea that four-legged high agility, high endurance robots had advanced significantly without me noticing.

fzil 35 seconds ago

And i thought it was about those polo shirts and replicas of the horse logo on the “fake” t-shirts.

beau_g 37 minutes ago

Though we are not yet competitive in the Argentinian Polo clone wars, we are making significant progress - https://www.satyress.com/

walrus01 30 minutes ago

This has to be some kind of kink thing. Not judging, just how it looks from first appearances.

aussieguy1234 11 minutes ago

That'd be alot more ethical than the current horse racing industry if it were the case.

Humans riding racing robots id watch, but not horse racing.

valiant-comma 41 minutes ago

Me too, I guess I don’t think of “replica” and “clone” as synonymous in the context of animals.

apt-apt-apt-apt 10 minutes ago

Humans can likely be cloned too.

Imagine 10,000 Albert Einsteins and John von Neumanns working together with modern AI on medical, scientific, and societal issues.

Though there could be an Evil Einstein due to upbringing or something.

thefounder 5 minutes ago

I am not sure if the Einsteins you clone would do what you want. Maybe they will want to be influencers on short video platforms.

jofzar 18 minutes ago

Surprised that the legal drama part of this wasn't discussed, it's how I first heard about this

https://youtu.be/VARJnzhVryc

connorboyle 36 minutes ago

Another Argentina/cloning-connected story is that President Javier Milei cloned his dog Conan at least four times: https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-04-26/the-myst...

The stories make me wonder if Argentina is a cloning hotspot, though I may be reading too much into two stories.

allthetime 28 minutes ago

That is where many of the nazi war doctors who escaped prosecution ended up…

aaron695 25 minutes ago

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