The leader, a former sportswriter who now calls himself Rael, was flanked by his scientific director and five young women from the group's 50 would-be surrogate mothers who have volunteered to carry cloned human embryos in their wombs. Her cells have been preserved. We've got the funding.
Experts say human cloning is possible.
The biggest roadblock to human cloning is not technology, but the likelihood of numerous failed pregnancies prior to success. That, plus society's uneasiness about cloning people, has led most mainstream scientists to reject the idea. But a group of dedicated believers willing to tolerate a few dozen miscarriages along the way could probably clone a person in less than a year. It's very likely that if you did it enough times you could make it work. The psychological health of a cloned person is another issue.