Posted on 12/20/2005 5:56:21 AM PST by Grendel9
Once again doing things we are not suppose to do.
Gee wouldn't that make a beautiful Christmas card. Me standing there by my trophy mammoth, covered in mossy oak holding my Barrett. With one big 'ol smile. I'd have to even send one to Senators Feinstein & Schumer!
But, how would you get that thing tied to the hood of your truck? And do you think the taxidermist would take payments?
I have a great imagination, but I also think there are certain things that we should not mess around with. These animals became extinct for a reason, and that reason may be a disease that we know nothing about. Bringing back a mammoth could bring that disease back, and that could pose some very big problems. Maybe I'm wrong, and I'm no expert on this subject, so take what I said with a grain of salt. It's just something to think about.
I think we should clone T-rex or one of the other large pedators and plant them in the western states. They would be a prefect compliment to the wolves there already and, of course, it would be illegal to kill them, because after all they would merely be trying to survive, right?
You MAY have a great imagination, but you have little grasp on biology. To bring back an extinct DISEASE, you'd have to find a sample of it and clone it.
Bringing back the Mammoth, especially with all the evidence that Man hunted the Mammoth to extinction, is repairing an error.
And besides. . . think of the sheer amount of Mammoth Steak and Chops available for your next Bar-b-que !!
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I want Mastadons, too. And saber-tooth tigers, and all those weird mammals in that book of prehistoric mammals from when I was a kid.
Giants suck. Go 'Skins!
Hey, now. I live in one of them western states. It's bad enough coming across a cougar when I'm out hiking. A T-rex would be totally over the top!
Then again, we would certainly solve the "T-Rex, was it a predator or was it a scavenger" debate.
" Then again, we would certainly solve the "T-Rex, was it a predator or was it a scavenger" debate."
I know! I'm so fed up with this T-rex scavenger bit. How dare they ruin my imagination.
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