Now if that news has your inner evil-overlord scheming a plot to create a clone army of intelligent prehistoric bugs, sorry, we've got bad news.

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Scientists have determined that the half-life of DNA is 521 years, effectively ruling out any hopes of creating a clone army of pretty much anything beyond 6.8 million years ago.

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Panos Zavos , the Kentucky fertility doctor and would-be human cloner, apparently doesn't see Lucas' clone army as a problem.

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The clones, which have been genetically modified to make them more obedient, are seen by the movie's heroes as little more than another military technology, like battle droids or light sabers. (The clone army apparently plays a role in the downfall of the heroic Jedi Knights, even turning one, Anakin Skywalker, into the evil Darth Vader.) These clone warriors are the ultimate mindless flunkies.

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In the second, a model is turned into an alien planet, complete with an army of clone soldiers surrounded by giant war machines and laser bolts.

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