Scientists Say They Could Bring Back Woolly Mammoths Within Two Years

trappedslider

Legend

• Feb 17, 2017

• #1

http://www.history.com/news/scientists-say-they-could-bring-back-woolly-mammoths-within-two-years


Did Jurassic Park teach us nothing?!? On the other hand, pretty cool how they plan to do it.

 

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Tonguez

A suffusion of yellow

• Feb 19, 2017

• #2

I wonder what mammoth steaks taste like

 

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Dioltach

Legend

• Feb 20, 2017

• #3

Never mind the steaks, I want to see the annual shearing.

 

J

Jhaelen

First Post

• Feb 20, 2017

• #4

... reminds me of the TV show 'Fortitude'...

 

Dannyalcatraz

Schmoderator

Staff member

Supporter

• Feb 20, 2017

• #5

Dioltach said:

Never mind the steaks, I want to see the annual shearing.

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Never mind the shearing, I want to see the Dire Sabertoothed Border Collies they're going to need to herd the dang things!

 

Istbor

Dances with Gnolls

• Feb 20, 2017

• #6

I like the term de-extinction.

While I understand the ethical implications, I cannot deny that the whole idea is fascinating.

 

trappedslider

Legend

• Feb 20, 2017

• #7

 

RedSiegfried

First Post

• Feb 21, 2017

• #8

Sometimes you can't know whether you should until you find out that you could. Much like life, technology always finds a way.

In other words, not only can you not put the genie back in the bottle, but you can't even keep it in to begin with.

 

trappedslider

Legend

• Feb 21, 2017

• #9

I think you might have missed the joke....

 

Kaodi

Legend

• Feb 23, 2017

• #10

I am no biologist but I would think that mammoths would be a very poor species to test scientific resurrection on. They are big and take time to mature. Meanwhile, from a genetic perspective their immune systems are stuck ten thousand years in the past. The chances of a resident of a contact era Mexico City resident during the conquest should look relatively bright compared to a mammoth cloned from ancient tissues.