“I wish everyone would curb their enthusiasm for making fantasies real.”
Then you may as well declare entrepreneurship and innovation dead. Dare to dream.
AHA! You left out the most important part of the sentence— “When I think of the money that is going to be spent on this impractical research, most of it probably coming from the taxpayers in one way or another”—a cheap rhetorical trick of excising one part of a sentence to change the overall thrust of my comment.
However, I forgive you. You think cloning of mammoths is entrepreneurship and innovation. I think it is a waste of resources. If you really think cloning is a good thing, then by all means let’s clone humans.