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[Loco Mo]

How many would there be?  Would the four of them be enough?  Or would we have had a world overflowing with Beatles??      

[Moogmodule]

Apparently some Canadian guy has one of John’s teeth. He was talking of cloning him from it. Of course the John we know and love wasn’t just a product of his dna.

[Normandie]

How many would there be?  Would the four of them be enough?  Or would we have had a world overflowing with Beatles??      

May I take your speculation a bit further, Loco Mo? What if a person could think a Beatle clone into existence? Can you imagine what 1964 would have been like, with all those screaming fans very likely taking advantage of that? We likely would have had millions of Beatles. I wonder which individual (i.e., John, Paul, George, or Ringo) would proliferate? It seems like a rather Twilight Zone–ish scenario.

Apparently some Canadian guy has one of John’s teeth. He was talking of cloning him from it. Of course the John we know and love wasn’t just a product of his dna.

I've read that as well. I hope he never pursues that. Cloning and AI both make be a bit nervous.

[Loco Mo]

Yes, Normandie, I agree.  That'd make a great Twilight Zone episode.  I wonder if Rod Serling ever had any interesting thoughts re: the Beatles.  I wish I could write a fictional piece re: the resurrection of the group in some strange world or universe.

[Hello Goodbye]

Loco, Rod Serling reunited The Beatles during a two-day rock concert at Fantasy Park which aired on WSAI-FM in 1975...

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XzK01Hnyto" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XzK01Hnyto</a>

You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead...your next stop, Fantasy Park.

[Normandie]

That's cool, Barry; I'd never heard of that before. 

Loco Mo, a handful of Twilight Zones did touch on topics close to cloning: doppelgängers ("Mirror Image"), robotics ("I Sing the Body Electric"), and AI ("From Agnes With Love"—one of my older daughter's favorites). Not sure if you've seen any of those.

[Normandie]

^^^^

Closer to what you posted, Loco Mo, is "The Rip Van Winkle Caper," in which three bank robbers sleep in suspended-animation chambers for 100 years to escape prosecution.