"Ummmmm! Mammoth-burgers"
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about the 10th post of this one...
I don't know if I'm so keen on this. Playing with genetics...
Is there any practical use for this, besides satisfying scientific curiosity?
"Ummmmm! Mammoth-burgers"
| Posted by annie laurie On News/Activism ^ 08/16/2006 8:25:32 PM CDT · 4 replies · 30+ views Times Online (UK) ^ | August 15, 2006 | Mark Henderson BODIES of extinct Ice Age mammals, such as woolly mammoths, that have been frozen in permafrost for thousands of years may contain viable sperm that could be used to bring them back from the dead, scientists said yesterday. Research has indicated that mammalian sperm can survive being frozen for much longer than was previously thought, suggesting that it could potentially be recovered from species that have died out. Several well-preserved mammoth carcasses have been found in the permafrost of Siberia, and scientists estimate that there could be millions more. Last year a Canadian team demonstrated that it was possible to... |
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| Posted by publius1 On News/Activism ^ 08/15/2006 1:28:27 PM CDT · 3 replies · 47+ views Times Online ^ | August 15, 2006 | Mark Henderson, BODIES of extinct Ice Age mammals, such as woolly mammoths, that have been frozen in permafrost for thousands of years may contain viable sperm that could be used to bring them back from the dead, scientists said yesterday. Research has indicated that mammalian sperm can survive being frozen for much longer than was previously thought, suggesting that it could potentially be recovered from species that have died out. Several well-preserved mammoth carcasses have been found in the permafrost of Siberia, and scientists estimate that there could be millions more. Last year a Canadian team demonstrated that it was possible to... |
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| Posted by freedom44 On News/Activism ^ 08/15/2006 12:23:52 PM CDT · 33 replies · 810+ views Times UK ^ | 8/15/06 | Times UK BODIES of extinct Ice Age mammals, such as woolly mammoths, that have been frozen in permafrost for thousands of years may contain viable sperm that could be used to bring them back from the dead, scientists said yesterday. Research has indicated that mammalian sperm can survive being frozen for much longer than was previously thought, suggesting that it could potentially be recovered from species that have died out. Several well-preserved mammoth carcasses have been found in the permafrost of Siberia, and scientists estimate that there could be millions more. Last year a Canadian team demonstrated that it was possible to... |
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| Posted by thiscouldbemoreconfusing On News/Activism ^ 08/15/2006 6:46:58 AM CDT · 173 replies · 2,360+ views Times on line/ Drudgereport ^ | Aug. 15, 2006 | Mark Henderson, Science Editor Times on line BODIES of extinct Ice Age mammals, such as woolly mammoths, that have been frozen in permafrost for thousands of years may contain viable sperm that could be used to bring them back from the dead, scientists said yesterday. Research has indicated that mammalian sperm can survive being frozen for much longer than was previously thought, suggesting that it could potentially be recovered from species that have died out. Several well-preserved mammoth carcasses have been found in the permafrost of Siberia, and scientists estimate that there could be millions more. Last year a Canadian team demonstrated that it was possible to... |
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| Posted by peyton randolph On News/Activism ^ 08/14/2006 11:17:59 PM CDT · 128 replies · 2,023+ views Times Online (U.K.) ^ | 08/15/2006 | Mark Henderson BODIES of extinct Ice Age mammals, such as woolly mammoths, that have been frozen in permafrost for thousands of years may contain viable sperm that could be used to bring them back from the dead, scientists said yesterday. Research has indicated that mammalian sperm can survive being frozen for much longer than was previously thought, suggesting that it could potentially be recovered from species that have died out... |
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why?
You could come up with an animal far more than half mammoth. The first would be half mammoth, but then mammoth sperm fertilizing the eggs of that half mammoth would lead to a 75% mammoth, then the next generation 87.5% and so on.
Why settle for just 50% mammoth - must some some frozen females with eggs out there too!
And the reason for doing this would be....???
This mucking about with extinct species bodes ill for our futures. Sure - the scientists will do this, and next thing you know, wooly mammoths will be all the rage. They'll be in all the zoos around the world, and you know what happens next - we find out the hard way that they are sentient buggers - the reason they went extinct was because they got too smart for their own good. Next thing you know, they're getting out of the zoos by unlocking their own cages and trampling all over people. Soon enough, a couple will find the concession stand, and then you'll have wooly mammoths all hopped up on Red Bull and cotton candy. Then where will you be? You can't outrun them, because they're wearing rollerblades. Ever seen a pissed off, over caffienated, spun sugar obsessed wooly mammoth rollerblading down main street? Of course you haven't! That's because the Lord in all his infinite wisdom realized just how bad they would be for our modern society, and got rid of them But noooOOoo...we have to bring them back, just to show how smart we are. Next thing you know, Gladys is yelling at me because that bloody wooly mammoth is pulling up petunias again and for me to get the broom and scare him off, and dammit, I'm not going out there after him, he's got friends, a bunch of juvenile deliquent, formerly extinct, too damned smart for their own good, Red Bulled woolly mammoths are pulling up the damned flowers, and I'm supposed to go and chase them out of the yard. Not me I says, and hands the broom to Gladys and then, they make her the mammoth queen, and that's the last of I see of her, riding proudly on the back of some young wooly mammoth as they go rollerblading into the sunset. Just as well, I never really liked her much anyways.
"Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should! "
Oh Jesus H. Christ on a crutch...here we go again...LOL!
S'okay, we collect 'em and trade 'em. ;')
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Mammoths may roam again after 27,000 years
Times Online (U.K.) | 08/15/2006 | Mark Henderson
Posted on 08/15/2006 12:17:59 AM EDT by peyton randolph
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