Just a thought but imagine if by any chance, they have already secretly succeeded in accomplishing this. And imagine if they’re already doing it in secret. Do you think this is likely?

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    9 hours ago

    I think this depends upon your definition of success. I think it could be done now such that you could get to a live birth, but not without serious health complications for the clone, probably resulting in an imprinting disorder or maybe something akin to progeria. You’d wind up with a sick infant instead of a healthy adult. Producing a copy of a human being as they are, if that is the definition of success, is still a ways away, probably a decade or more. This is without even considering the ethical issues with human cloning.