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Scientists Aim to Revive the Woolly Mammoth
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| 11 Apr 05
| Bill Christensen
Posted on 04/18/2005 8:08:56 AM PDT by Drew68
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Didn't see this posted. Found it interesting.
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posted on
04/18/2005 8:08:57 AM PDT
by
Drew68
To: Drew68
"Pleistocene Park"? Don't laugh - with modern DNA technology, its entirely possible to bring back long-extinct species. Michael Crichton had no idea just how realistic it would be.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
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posted on
04/18/2005 8:11:19 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: Drew68
Surely there are better things to spend money on, no?
To: Drew68
The sperm DNA would then be injected into a female elephant; by repeating the procedure with offspring, a creature 88 percent mammoth could be produced within fifty years. Not just big, hairy elephants, but inbred crazy big hairy elephants.
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posted on
04/18/2005 8:12:41 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Blackwell for Governor 2006: hated by the 'Rats, feared by the RINOs.)
To: Drew68
...chairman of the genetic engineering department at Kinki University in Japan...Man...betcha that's one hell of a party school!
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posted on
04/18/2005 8:13:49 AM PDT
by
Lekker 1
("There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be attainable"- Albert Einstein)
To: Drew68
Will the saber tooth cats eat lawyers? Or would they get food poisoning from ingesting rotten legalese?
To: Lekker 1
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posted on
04/18/2005 8:14:47 AM PDT
by
MikefromOhio
(Question of the week: Can you think country music sucks and still be a Conservative?)
To: Drew68
I guess this puts the environmentalist wacko assertion that "Extinction is Forever!" to the lie, doesn't it?
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posted on
04/18/2005 8:15:18 AM PDT
by
The Great Yazoo
("Happy is the boy who discovers the bent of his life-work during childhood." Sven Hedin)
To: KarlInOhio
"Not just big, hairy elephants, but inbred crazy big hairy elephants."So that's why they sound like Raymond!
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posted on
04/18/2005 8:15:28 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: KarlInOhio
Not just big, hairy elephants, but inbred crazy big hairy elephants.Kinda like the royal family.
To: KarlInOhio
Not just big, hairy elephants, but inbred crazy big hairy elephants.Sounds like the Appalachian Republican Party.
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posted on
04/18/2005 8:16:37 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(They taunted and gloated with perverse kitty pictures....)
To: Drew68
Does anyone on this planet have any concept of the Law of Unintended Consequences? Anyone?
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posted on
04/18/2005 8:16:45 AM PDT
by
Thrusher
(Remember the Mog.)
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To: goldstategop
Michael Crichton had no idea just how realistic it would be. I sincerly believe that in my lifetime I will see a T-Rex.
Once Crichton popularized the notion that this could be done, it will only be a matter of time before someone does it.
Scientists will start easy with recently extinct animals and then work their way back.
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posted on
04/18/2005 8:17:47 AM PDT
by
Drew68
To: Drew68
Flinstone, paging Fred Flintstone
To: Drew68
"Woolly mammoths became extinct about 10,000 years ago as warming weather reduced their food sources. Although only about a hundred specimens have been found, as many as ten million mammoths are believed buried in permanently frozen Russian soil." Immanuel Velikovshy thought otherwise. He speculated that the Earth was moved in its orbit by interaction with other comets or planets. The mammoths became extinct when Siberia was suddenly thrust into the artic circle after the axis of rotation was shifted to the present day 23 1/2 degrees. A much better explanation considering what's been found in frozen mammoth stomachs. Whatever killed mammoths must have happened suddenly. Otherwise, the mammoths would have migrated. Also, the frozen mammoths likely died from drowning and freezing because they are preserved so well.
To: Drew68
Whoo hoo! What a day....first Pompei now the wooly mammoth....
~~sigh~~
Seriously, too of my favorite topics (and yes, I think makin' a new one would be great).
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posted on
04/18/2005 8:19:54 AM PDT
by
najida
(I wish I had Tina Turner's legs, Ann Coulter's brains and Paris Hilton's credit cards.)
To: Thrusher
Does anyone on this planet have any concept of the Law of Unintended Consequences? Anyone? Sure, but where's the fun in that? Nobody wins prizes worrying about future consequences.
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posted on
04/18/2005 8:20:01 AM PDT
by
Drew68
To: MediaMole
Kinda like the royal family. Only with regard to hair and ears....
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posted on
04/18/2005 8:20:43 AM PDT
by
The_Victor
(Doh!... stupid tagline)
To: Drew68
One question: would they taste good?
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posted on
04/18/2005 8:20:43 AM PDT
by
xJones
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