Posted on 09/13/2022 8:56:55 AM PDT by Red Badger
Species go extinct because they can’t survive in the environment they are in. Bring them back and they will go extinct again.
Why not? We already have neanderthals roaming around in Congress.
The Dodo tastes like chicken, or so I’ve heard................
Okay, I’ll confess.
Some years ago when the news came out that a baby mastadon found intact in the frozen wilds of Siberia had provided scientists with a genome and the Russians were considering cloning said baby mastadon, I did let my imagination momentarily run away with me.
I mean, how cool would it be it have a pet baby mastadon? I pictured myself riding my cute baby mastadon to the grocery store, hooking my plastic shopping bags over his curly tusks on the ride home, and selling his poops as garden fertilizer and deer repellant.
But my humorous little fantasy only lasted a few fond moments.
No, just no. Let’s not be quick try resurrect extinct species. Who wants a T. rex invading their back yard and devouring their children?
If they “de-extinct” it can we drop the pretentious Greek name that sounds like something in a vitamin pill and just call it a “Tasmanian Tiger” again.
Just remember pig and elephant DNA will not splice.
Except for the ‘baby mastodon’ being a ‘pig’, that is basically the plot to The Simpson’s Movie!...................
LOL!
I missed that movie. Gonna have to look it up on the youtubes ...
I envision the day when a future expedition by our HumaCricket descendants accidently discovers some pre-SwampVax DNA and clones up some cute little humans for the zoo. And for snacks.
Maybe they’ll resurrect a classical liberal?
The grand prize for this is to resurrect Woolly Mammoths.
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A Wooly Mammoth would be pretty cool to bring back. That and Sabertooth Tigers. Might as well include some Flat Face Bears. We won’t start with Jurassic park, we’ll start with Paleolithic Park.
I loved that scene. I was cheering the dinosaur for eating a lawyer....Soft and juicy!
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“When you gotta go, you gotta go!”
Often that environment includes people with guns that want to shoot them. ;-)
That said, I'm looking to fire up some bison burgers on the grill today.
I once heard a talk that had a quick aside onto this topic that showed just how bad the legalities of such work / ‘de-extinction’ would be, at least here in the USofA areas. The 1st problem area is the ‘Endangered Species Act’ (ESA) which makes the preservation of a near extinct life form a priority. So a successful resurrection is accomplished and while the ‘team’ is congratulating themselves, there comes a knock on the door and a POSSE of legal eagles and police-types troop in to ‘save’ that which was meaningless just the day prior.
Now remember, the ESA applies to both life form AND environment as being essential for preservation. For grins, let us postulate a male smilodon gracilis (sabretooth tiger) has been restored. As the sole remaining example, a female example is next on the list of requirements (unless thee is still some dispute about genders at that time). While that is going on, the environment / biome needs to be established. So is the State of Iowa enough or should Kansas be added? Then there is the proper prey species as well. Mega-Bison anyone? How many?
Anyway this ‘problem’ just keeps propagating ad infinitum. Hilarious but frightening as well! Be careful what you dream, it can also be your nightmare as well!
Whenever a conversation like this begins in the public domain, you can be sure the scientists are already all over it and well on the way towards doing whatever it is that we’re supposed to be debating the “right and wrong” of.
You can’t teach, preach, or be an example of morality to science guys. It will all go right over their heads. That’s just how it is.
I imagine there are a few benefits to humanity in scientific efforts to revive extinct species. I can’t really think of any myself - that’s why I never excelled at writing grants.
Rats! I remembered wrong. It was a baby wooly mammoth, not a baby mastadon:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4092984/posts?page=24#24
Rats! I remembered wrong. It was a baby wooly mammoth, not a baby mastadon:
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Baby Mammoths. The new Jumbo Shrimp!
Since the faux Thylacine won’t be a REAL Thylacine, then we’re just tossing an unknown species into the wild.
If that logic holds true, then we could create ANYTHING in the laboratories of Dr. Moreau and release them, all the while feeling proud of ourselves for upstaging GOD in the creation biz.
Let’s start with all those reptiles in the Everglades, native and invasive. Maybe a Python-Alligator crossbreed, 20 feet long, hungry as hell and faster than a racehorse. Sounds like fun, huh?
“Who wants a T. rex invading their back yard and devouring their children?”
Mmm. To be totally honest, I’ve met children who ...
(LOL. Please forgive me.)
Then, just grow the herd until the species is self sustaining.
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Gosh! That was easy! Why didn’t we do that before.
We could have herds and herds of woolly mammoths running around the Artic tundra, have zero impact on the current environment.
Of course it would open up new sources for ivory hunters
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