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gogogadgetflow
United States2583 Posts
On January 18 2011 21:22 Mr Tambourine Man wrote: OH YEAH!!! Mammoth steak!! My mouth is watering already!! Mmmmm mammoths raised in Captivity will produce the tenderest steaks... http://news.discovery.com/animals/mammoth-cloning-technology-reserrect-110117.html source btw | ||
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Ghostcom
Denmark4783 Posts
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Rb6v King
Australia54 Posts
On January 18 2011 21:16 Kirameki wrote: People that say this is immoral really bother me. Do people know how many animals suffer for our food? It's literally billions of animals throughout all these industrialized years. And just one mammoth for the sake of science is immoral and that they ought to stay extinct because they are extinct for a reason... Maybe it's not worth the effort but calling it immoral is really annoying. Off Topic: Sorry, I just read that word and after reading the ultralisk jokes, I really read that as "immortal"  Anyway, I hope that they can do it, 'cos the cloning of the tasmanian tiger didn't work out too well. | ||
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sk`
Japan442 Posts
On January 18 2011 21:22 Mr Tambourine Man wrote: This opened my eyes... at first I was like "why don't the clone something cool, like a Liger", but now I want to eat grill mammoth.OH YEAH!!! Mammoth steak!! My mouth is watering already!! | ||
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Linkirvana
Netherlands365 Posts
My suggestion would be to replace horses with mammoths. Maybe place some guns on top of them or something. Then we should totally call them mammoth tanks. I love command & conquer. | ||
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hifriend
China7935 Posts
On January 18 2011 21:51 sk` wrote: This opened my eyes... at first I was like "why don't the clone something cool, like a Liger", but now I want to eat grill mammoth. A liger is just a hybrid... | ||
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romulus
Slovakia14 Posts
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ccou
United States681 Posts
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anatem
Romania1369 Posts
elephants are fast becoming obsolete, and i'm not saying that because they've been hunted to the brink of extinction, but because situations where tigers or lions effectively hunt adult male elephants are becoming more and more common. if this isn't nature's way of saying "your time is up", i don't know what is now the purpose of a mammoth on earth is what again ? not like you're gonna raise herds like with cows for food. and they might as well clone something else if they want to work on their technology and make some breakthroughs in science instead of headlines in tabloids | ||
KwarK
United States43469 Posts
On January 18 2011 21:14 Chriamon wrote: Probably won't work, weren't scientists already trying to resurrect the Tazmanian tiger, which has only been extinct for ~60 years, to no success. Tasmania doesn't have so much permafrost. | ||
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Sufficiency
Canada23833 Posts
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Electric.Jesus
Germany755 Posts
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hifriend
China7935 Posts
On January 18 2011 22:16 Sufficiency wrote: I am skeptical that this will work. The mammoth were from a very long time ago, and consequently, its DNA is actually poorly preserved (i.e. has a lot of missing parts). I understand they might try to substitute the missing sections with modern elephant DNA - but it seems a bit far-fetched. It probably won't, but what makes it at least somewhat promising is that they have performed the same thing on a mouse preserved in similar simulated conditions. On January 18 2011 22:12 anatem wrote: good luck to them in this completely retardedly futile endeavor. elephants are fast becoming obsolete, and i'm not saying that because they've been hunted to the brink of extinction, but because situations where tigers or lions effectively hunt adult male elephants are becoming more and more common. if this isn't nature's way of saying "your time is up", i don't know what is now the purpose of a mammoth on earth is what again ? not like you're gonna raise herds like with cows for food. and they might as well clone something else if they want to work on their technology and make some breakthroughs in science instead of headlines in tabloids Well, you can't know what kind of results that research might yield. Maybe we learn something in an ecological sense or in terms of cloning techniques. Mammoths are interesting because we don't have a clear picture of how they got instinct. Other seemingly futile endeavours: Colombus navigating shortcuts to india Visiting the moon Nuclear fission etcetc. Funny how whenever there's a thread about some random scientific undertaking, there are always people seemingly pissed off at the fact that we're studying our surroundings rather than solving world hunger or whatever. But it's not like we could have known 200 years ago that intense studying of microbes would eventually lead to certain practical uses such as vaccines etc. | ||
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Scaipax
Netherlands54 Posts
It's all kewl and stuff, but what's the point? | ||
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XsebT
Denmark2980 Posts
Not sure how to feel about this, but mainly I just think it's cool that we can even do this. | ||
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Fa1nT
United States3423 Posts
On January 18 2011 22:38 Scaipax wrote: What's the point? It's all kewl and stuff, but what's the point? Progress in the field of cloning? Setting up a working method to prevent future extinction? Proof that humans are now capable of creating life that no longer exists, something a large majority o earth believes only deities can do? | ||
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Yukidasu
Australia125 Posts
On January 18 2011 22:15 KwarK wrote: Tasmania doesn't have so much permafrost. We may not have permafrost but I think we do have a much younger specimen preserved by mankind. Not sure how it's going though. In any case, a mammoth is much cooler. | ||
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HeIios
Sweden2523 Posts
On January 18 2011 22:38 Scaipax wrote: What's the point? It's all kewl and stuff, but what's the point? I actually think their mission statement as to the reason for undertaking this project was: "it's all kewl and stuff" The people in charge needed no more convincing words than that, needless to say their funding was approved of immediately. | ||
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bubO
United States367 Posts
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vlovo
Netherlands18 Posts
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