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1 posted on 02/01/2023 12:16:47 PM PST by Red Badger
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To: SunkenCiv

PinGGG!...................


2 posted on 02/01/2023 12:17:04 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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I have always wondered what Dodo tasted like.


3 posted on 02/01/2023 12:19:50 PM PST by READINABLUESTATE
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Damn thing nearly caused Fred to crash when he was taking flying lessons.


5 posted on 02/01/2023 12:22:11 PM PST by BobL
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Can you say ‘scam’..


6 posted on 02/01/2023 12:23:17 PM PST by Track9 (You are far too inquisitive not to be seduced…)
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When are they going to do the Cave Bears, Short Faced Bears, and the Smilodons?


8 posted on 02/01/2023 12:25:59 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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As I understand it, it went extinct because it was tasty but easy to hunt.


11 posted on 02/01/2023 12:27:17 PM PST by dangus
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Lizzy Holmes 2.0


13 posted on 02/01/2023 12:28:06 PM PST by Track9 (You are far too inquisitive not to be seduced…)
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De-die de dodo?


15 posted on 02/01/2023 12:28:37 PM PST by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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Why can’t they resurrect something cool like a T. Rex? You can’t feed liberals to a dodo.


16 posted on 02/01/2023 12:29:33 PM PST by Billthedrill
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Have the been successful on anything yet? Or still in the almost there phase?
How about passenger pigeons?


17 posted on 02/01/2023 12:29:37 PM PST by 9422WMR (45 1. Lie, cheat, steal. It’s how the democRATS operate. )
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In case anyone didn’t catch the term, a thylacine is also known as a Tasmanian tiger or Marsupial wolf.


18 posted on 02/01/2023 12:29:45 PM PST by dangus
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I can’t wait for the moa when they bring it back. The chicken might eat you.


20 posted on 02/01/2023 12:32:43 PM PST by Theoria
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They could bring back something like the Velociraptors. Maybe put them on an island somewhere. Nothing could go wrong with that!


21 posted on 02/01/2023 12:34:02 PM PST by rigelkentaurus
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150 million and you’ll get a Rhode Island Red, spray painted and some super glue added parts.


22 posted on 02/01/2023 12:36:15 PM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Forget "Global Warming", new grants are for "Galaxy Dimming")
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Rita Hayworth would be nicer.


23 posted on 02/01/2023 12:37:12 PM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Forget "Global Warming", new grants are for "Galaxy Dimming")
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I want a pet Thylacine.


26 posted on 02/01/2023 12:41:14 PM PST by EEGator
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Was this bird considered necessary or even useful to its environment?


31 posted on 02/01/2023 1:03:06 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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Theranos — The Sequel


32 posted on 02/01/2023 1:06:18 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Truth is not hate speech.)
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Let's say you are able to cobble together a functional genome for the Dodo (or any other extinct species). That's a bit like having blueprints for a printing press. By themselves the blueprints won't build the printing press. The Dodo DNA will need to be inserted into an avian egg (whichever living species is most suitable).

But that's the easy part. The reality is that for a fertilized egg to be viable and grow, the entire complex suite of cellular structures and hundreds of proteins in the cell need to be just what is needed to read the DNA and then begin dividing and building the Dodo embryo.

As an analogy, consider walking into a Ford pick-up truck plant with all the blueprints needed to build a Toyota Tundra pick-up. Even though the vehicles are very similar, the reality is that because of innumerable differences in the parts used, the assembly line equipment and so on, an effort to build the Tundra would very quickly bog down, assembly would halt and the effort would fail. In like manner a Dodo embryo will fail to develop without precisely the right suite of proteins matched to the DNA.

Not saying it's absolutely impossible (particularly if closely related living species are available), but there's a LOT more challenge to this than meets the eye.

34 posted on 02/01/2023 1:17:44 PM PST by EnderWiggin1970
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“Innovations in synthetic biology will not only improve the state of the planet, but also further the U.S. high tech advantage.”

Sure, that’s what they always say. Then 30 minutes later we’re all fleeing from 50 foot dodos who can crush automobiles in their beaks.


36 posted on 02/01/2023 1:18:06 PM PST by Boogieman
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