Quote Originally Posted by Centurio Nixalsverdrus View Post
I will clone Megas Alexandros with the DNA that I find in the water in my kitchen then. Then I will conquer the present day world exploiting his military genius.
Too bad most of today's biologists-researchers agree that human chromosomes are so immensely difficult to replicate that cloning humans is either an enterprise for the far future or altogether impossible. I am more inclined to believe the former, as men of learning repudiated many things that now exist. In any case, scientific opinion is infinitely more valuable than mine.

And speaking of the molecule thing, that is horse-sheisse. Poor science there. Too much bloody water on this wet planet fro that to happen. The chances are small. Iskander lived a much shorter life than Caesar. Then again, he drank like ten Makedonians, which would equal about fifty Romans... No wonder the real Greeks looked down on Makedonians. No truly cultured person would do such thing to himself.

I have read more than I care about Alexandros, and most of his aspects, mainly in the end of his life, were quite horrendous and repugnant. He started out quite well though, but the inhumanly cruel and lengthy fighting in Central Asia, with those guerrillas moved something in his head (a Russian expression meaning he went a bit crazy), as much of his entourage noted.