[OT] python copies self in Amsterdam Artis

[Thijs Cobben]

Amsterdam, Februari 6th 2003

source: ANP , dutch press bureau
http://nu.nl/news.jsp?n=106594&c=80 (dutch)

In the world famous Amsterdam zoo the Artis a female python is found to be
pregnant of genetical identical daughters.

This process, called parthenogenesis, is known to happen with some other
reptiles, but until today scientists did not know pythons were capable of
self-cloning too.

Note that Artis is located less than 2 kilometers from the home of python,
"het Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica" in the east side of Amsterdam.

It is not to be expected that the programming language python will ever have
capabilities for self-replication since this will undoubtedly invoke
variants of Goedel style paradoxes.

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