What could go wrong?
I am not going until they resurrect Coelodonta antiquitatis, i.e., the woolly rhinoceros.
I am reminded of a story from the Gulag Archipelago
about an exploration team that came across a thawing
mammoth, unfortunately no research could be done on it
as the team immediately ate it.
I was thinking they could start with something smaller. Perhaps a dodo or a passenger pigeon..
Dr. Ian Malcolm: “Oooh! Ahhh! That’s how it always starts. Then later there’s running and screaming.”
Still, I want to go see it!
The photographs of the frozen carcases are amazing.
Hold onto your butt!
“Along with other measures, it’s hoped the woolly mammoths will create an environment which could stop Siberia’s permafrost melting and then releasing billions of tons of greenhouse gases.”
He said: “Cold-resistant elephants would flatten the insulating snow and supporting trees in winter and favour the highly heat reflective grass in summer. “They would also help capture new carbon by enhancing the photosynthetic capacity of the vegetation.” Should Prof Church and his Harvard uni team successfully clone woolly mammoths they would be taken to an extraordinary Ice Age safari park currently being developed by Russian scientists.
Called the Pleistocene Park, the 20,000 hectare zone in the furthest stretches of remote Siberia has been created in a bid to recreate an Ice-Age ecosystem. Boffins believe grazing woolly mammoths would also compact the snow in the winter and grass in the summer all of which lowers the permafrost temperature.
A few dozen, or even a few thousand, woolly mammoths tramping down the snow and grass in a 20,000 hectare park is going to have a snowball’s chance on the surface of the Sun to stop ALL of the permafrost in Siberia from melting? Yeah, they’re on drugs...either that, or so f’ing stupid that they should immediately be fired.
Yeah, that little problem of inventing an artificial womb might be tough. Usually with these stories they talk about implanting an embryo in some living animal, to my understanding.
Freegards
Hellarysauras.
Sounds fascinating; on behalf of all Freep Old Farts, let me say, ‘I wish I could be around to see it.’