It makes zero sense to bring back extinct species who have zero chance of surviving the current and future environment.
If anything we should be trying to adapt modern existing endangered animals so they can survive the coming decades.
The same people have also been doing that with the red wolf iirc. But de-extincting animals brings in the investors or something.
It makes zero sense to bring back extinct species who have zero chance of surviving the current and future environment.
I agree that’s a horrible idea but I doin’t think anyone is actually proposing that.For me the question is, is there enough scientific value to be gained by “de-extincting” these ancient creatures to justify keeping them in a controlled environment for study.edit:
never mind, i was wrong.
Colossal’s landmark de-extinction project will be the resurrection of the woolly mammoth - or more specifically a cold-resistant elephant with all of the core biological traits of the woolly mammoth. It will walk like a woolly mammoth, look like one, sound like one, but most importantly it will be able to inhabit the same ecosystem previously abandoned by the mammoth’s extinction.
I have a friend who works for this company (or some other company with the same goal, I dont remember). She says that the mammoth with help maintain the ecosystem’s native ground mosses (or something) to combat climate change.
I tried to point out to her that (1) that is a huuuuge stretch, (2) this sounds like a bunch of VCs just thought the idea was super cool and wanted to throw money at it because “duuuuude, dinosaurs!!!”, (3) this is the exact plot to jurassic park, and (4) eventually the VC will dry up and her company will sell their tech to the super-rich to genetically modify their offspring, creating a permanent genetic class heirarchy in humans.
And then she told me she didnt want to hang out with me anymore.
Had the same thought seems like a stepping stone to eventually create modified humans.
i read an article where they claimed that the mammoths would stamp the co2 into the ground, so it cant escape. lol. also they were hoping to make money with carbon credits
most importantly it will be able to inhabit the same ecosystem previously abandoned by the mammoth’s extinction.
Perfect! It’ll be able to survive ice age tundra in a rapidly warming world.
But won’t be a mammoth.
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But they haven’t brought back anything. It’s all bullshit.
Resurrect Trilobites and give them lungs and sell as pets, then we can talk.
Lol, Behind The Bastards Podcast covered these fools a while back.
Behind the Bastards: Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
Behind the Bastards: Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
I support having mammoths, dire wolves, and Pleistocene megafauna around. Seems max lulz.
I fucking hate zoomer-ass comments like this. Like HAR HAR HAR nothing is serious, everything is just max lulz, everything is just vibes and good times HUR DURRRR!!!
Seriously, get fucked.
Now that you wrote this hate-filled comment, I kind of appreciate people who write max lulz instead.
Excuse me? Hello? You appropriated my culture, and worse, you got it completely wrong.
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