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"Just because you can doesn't mean you should."............
Posted on 01/15/2025 7:25:38 AM PST by Red Badger
"Just because you can doesn't mean you should."............
Mammoth Ping!....................
Totally fine with bringing back the Mammoths, so long as they bring back Sabre Tooth Tigers at the same time...
“Mammoths had their shot, and nature selected them for extinction.”
I don’t know if they have DNA for that.............
I am of a similar mindset, if science can bring back the Woolly Mammoth the results of bringing it back might not be what everyone is expecting.
The Woolly Mammoth went extinct for a reason, other than proving it can be done, what purpose does it serve.
GMTA
The reason may have been that we ate them all. I suppose that could happen again, if we have a chance.
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[Woolly Mammoth]
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I want my velociraptors and I want them now.
Next on the list, the Washington Redskins!
Firstly, I have no problem with de-extinction. It was humans after all who drove several of these species to extinction in the first place.
Secondly, the technology that is developed doing this will have a lot of uses for regenerative medicine (ie growing bespoke replacement organs/body parts for each person) that would do a lot to cure disease and injury.
Also, the same technology will allow us to produce real meat in labs. That would be revolutionary in terms of land use, environmental impact, space travel, etc etc.
We WANT this technology.
other than proving it can be done, what purpose does it serve.
But, there can be spinoff technology in this endeaver from AI to biological and that is the undertone. Mammoths are the shiney thing.
The fact is there has been a lot of “easy” come money available to invest in high risk. Loss on this also offsets profits from other activity, always a tax angle.
Historically there have been other wild ideas that have been invested in. most fail, some succeed.
I thought they were hunted to extinction by humans.
Good. With this technology we can abolish the Endangered Species Act and drill baby drill and dam baby dam!
I just want the dodo bird back
I liked the brachiosaurus.
The old "blitzkrieg hunting theory." After they finished off the mammoths, they turned on a couple dozen other megafauna species and wiped them out too. Then, sadly, the Clovis culture disappeared.
Well, they were apparently quite tasty. They were hunted to extinction for a reason.
Mammoth tenderloin is probably delicious
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