Bringing back the Wooly Mammoth

Rockstar · 09-30-21, 09:01 AM

Bringing woolly mammoths back from extinction might not be such a bad idea — ethicists explain.

https://theconversation.com/bringing...explain-167892

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US startup Colossal Biosciences has announced plans to bring woolly mammoths, or animals like them, back from extinction and into the frosty landscape of the Siberian tundra.

Colossal has received US$15 million in initial funds to support research conducted by Harvard geneticist George Church, among other work. The proposed project is exciting, with laudable ambitions — but whether it is a practical strategy for conservation remains unclear.

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Theoretically, this could help reduce climate change.

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Buddahaid · 09-30-21, 07:45 PM

Jurassic Park here we come but first they need to get their Covid shots!

Platapus · 10-01-21, 05:16 PM

Interesting. I am not sure this specific application would be successful, but CRISPER technology does seem to have some interesting potential medical uses so I am glad it is being researched.

Aktungbby · 10-03-21, 10:22 AM

A pity we're trying to create new elephants when we can't properly take care of the ones we've got...

Jimbuna · 10-03-21, 10:23 AM

Precisely

Platapus · 10-03-21, 11:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Aktungbby

A pity we're trying to create new elephants when we can't properly take care of the ones we've got...

Sad but true.

Jeff-Groves · 10-03-21, 12:54 PM

Just reproduce Velociraptors with a genetic inclination to hunt humans near Elephants.

What could go wrong with that?

09-30-21, 07:45 PM	#2
Buddahaid Shark above Space Chicken Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,319 Downloads: 162 Uploads: 0	Jurassic Park here we come but first they need to get their Covid shots! __________________ "However vast the darkness, we must provide our own light." Stanley Kubrick "Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming." David Bowie

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Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,361 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	Interesting. I am not sure this specific application would be successful, but CRISPER technology does seem to have some interesting potential medical uses so I am glad it is being researched. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

10-03-21, 10:22 AM	#4
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 29,984 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	A pity we're trying to create new elephants when we can't properly take care of the ones we've got... __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!

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Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,473 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Precisely __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

10-03-21, 12:54 PM	#7
Jeff-Groves GLOBAL MODDING TERRORIST Join Date: Sep 2014 Posts: 5,649 Downloads: 137 Uploads: 0	Just reproduce Velociraptors with a genetic inclination to hunt humans near Elephants. What could go wrong with that?