Scientist have brought back the Dire Wolf that's been extinct for over 10,000 years.
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That seems like a very bad idea, does it not? Would not the dire wolf wreak havoc on wild and domestic animals? A wooly mammoth? Why? I'm not sure resurrecting extinct animals is prudent. I mean, they did go extinct for a reason, right? And it wasn't Man hunting them into extinction. Maybe leave Mother Nature alone - no more seeding clouds, attempts to redirect sunlight, bringing long extinct animals back to life, etc.
I hate humans for so many reasons. Won't be long until we figure out how to get to distant galaxies and find life on other planets and F their ish up like we have on this planet, lol.
They did not bring back dire wolves. They mixed some genes from an animal called a dire wolf, that is actually not a wolf, in to an egg for a gray wolf and made something new.
There's been talk of bringing back mammoths for years which I find odd considering humans have a history of not treating elephants well and/or not caring about them. It's like wanting to create a new species of whale after we've treated the different whale species already in existence like ****. We've gotten better about recognizing that flaw in us but it's still not great.
Dire Doodles are now coming. Way to go, science.
I have had the unfortunate honor of knowing some who thought of this inane project. The original goal they pitched was to bring back the mammoth to eat, with the understanding that the underlying technologies might have good scientific/clinical impact.Below is an article explaining how they did it, which is way over my head. According to the article, they hope to also bring back extinct Wooly Mammoths, the dodo, and the Tasmanian tiger. I just wonder how long before they want to bring back dinosaurs?
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george church is like the zach galafinakis of science. the hangover version.
it probably will be a waste of money. seems like only a little less scammy than theranos. a telling sign that their list of advisors and the majority of their investors have no background in the segment.
i know one of their investors, whom i actually respect a lot.
More importantly, as much of a menace as those darn cows are, how much damage would Wooly Mammoth farts do to the environment?
Interesting theory. Do you think the giant land animals of the past died of flatulence-induced global warming.
If the headlines on weather.com are truly any indication of the damage cows have done then, those big dinosaurs would have surely caused climate change on a greater shift wouldn't they? Imagine how much damage, at 77 tons, the Patagotitan mayorum would have done to the atmosphere with all those gasses it was emitting.
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I blame Jerry Garcia and George RR Martin for the Dire Wolf. Drunken old boys singing round the fire, metaphorically speaking.
A close friend of mine has had a dino chicken project for over a decade, trying to reverse engineer a dinosaur from a chicken. They may have gotten a chicken with a tail. I was pretty excited for the dinosaur wild wings franchise but it's been slow going. At some point, the project will go the way of the dinosaurs.
A close friend of mine has had a dino chicken project for over a decade, trying to reverse engineer a dinosaur from a chicken. They may have gotten a chicken with a tail. I was pretty excited for the dinosaur wild wings franchise but it's been slow going. At some point, the project will go the way of the dinosaurs.
Don't be messing wit that stuffBelow is an article explaining how they did it, which is way over my head. According to the article, they hope to also bring back extinct Wooly Mammoths, the dodo, and the Tasmanian tiger. I just wonder how long before they want to bring back dinosaurs?
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Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could that they didn't stop to think
if they should.
if they should.
True story, years ago a local prosecutor had a case where a guy was keeping a dog/wolf mixed breed (yes, they can produce offspring) in a residential neighborhood, when the dog/wolf jumped or climbed over the wooden fence and damn near killed a kid playing in his own back yard.
Again, I ask myself, WTF were they thinking? And why on earth would you keep such an animal in a residential neighborhood?
Again, I ask myself, WTF were they thinking? And why on earth would you keep such an animal in a residential neighborhood?
trump put out an executive order that has the scope to stop this kind of work without government approval.
Met a friend of a friend while out drinking in Madisonville one night, probably 25 years ago, we all wound up back at his house and this guy had a dog named 'Bodie' that was a wolf mix. Biggest damned dog I've ever seen IRL. I mean, he told us it was big, but you're never ready for a wolf. Just seeing this dog come thru the sliding door from the backyard was literally sobering. Terrifying.
Despite them being private, there are lots of reasons for oversight. I don't always agree with executive orders (not that my opinion should matter for any of them), but as someone who does a lot of work in related fields, I strongly agree with this one. Government oversight is needed in the segment of synthetic biology. It shouldn't be to limit progress, it should be to limit accidents (e.g. potentially the Wuhan covid crisis).