Two-fer:
GGG
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Catastrophe!
Anybody who clones a mammoth should spend the rest of his life having to clean up after it.
I’ll laugh when they clone a mammoth and it grows up we all learn mammoths are not physically capable of enduring cold weather.
I have visions of the Flintstones at the drive in eatery.
When Jurassic Park came out, I remember reading a spate of articles addressing the possibility of bringing extinct animals back to life. The consensus was that it wouldn’t happen because of ethics.
I thought these claims were naive because ethics doesn’t matter, in terms of whether or not something will be done. Knowledge is too wide spread, and eventually someone will do it.
I’d be surprised if someone has not already cloned a human being. I’m also surprised that someone has not attempted to clone a dodo bird or a passenger pigeon.
They can implant fertilized eggs in the mammoth’s closest living relative, the elephant. The gestation period should be quite similar.
Gardner on the Mammoth
” The Yakuts of the neighborhood had cut off the flesh, with which they had fed their dogs; wild beasts, such as white bears, wolves, wolverines, and foxes had also fed upon it, and traces of their footsteps were seen around. The skeleton almost cleared of flesh, remained whole, with the exception of one foreleg. The spine of the back, one scapula, the pelvis, and other three limbs were still held together by the ligaments and by parts of the skin; the other scapula was found not far off. The head was covered with a dry skin; one of the ears was furnished with a tuft of hairs; the balls of the eyes were still distinguishable; the brain still occupied the cranium but seemed dried up; the point of the lower lip had been gnawed and the upper lip had been distroyed so as to expose the teeth; the neck was furnished with a long flowing mane; the skin, of a dark-grey color, covered with black hairs and a reddish wool, was so heavy that ten persons found great difficulty in transporting it to shore.
http://www.holloworbs.com/gardner_on_the_mammoth.htm
If successful, can we do away with the Endangered Species Act?
Why do we need a wooly mammoth? Is Roseanne Barr looking for a new mate?
Well that’s great but when does hunting season open?
Time to buy another freezer.
Wait until the Enviros demand we reintroduce them to Yellowstone.
Back in the saddle again...
I have been predicting this for several years on FR.
The Voices never lie.
Pleistocene Park?