EPTThe Tusks could be used to fashion luxuries sold at a high price, which the proceeds could be used to counteract the financial loss from giving away the meat that could have otherwise been sold.
Scientists aim to resurrect mammoth - Page 5
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whiteguycash
United States476 Posts
The Tusks could be used to fashion luxuries sold at a high price, which the proceeds could be used to counteract the financial loss from giving away the meat that could have otherwise been sold. | ||
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RoosterSamurai
Japan2108 Posts
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Necosarius
Sweden4042 Posts
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Elegy
United States1629 Posts
I'd be much more worried about cloning small insects or more niche animals that don't have natural predators. If, years from now in some weird sci-fi scenario, mammoth populations began covering the planet it'd be simple to kill them off, but insects and small animals (rabbits in Australia) can be impossible to deal with. | ||
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Electric.Jesus
Germany755 Posts
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ComplaiNT
United Kingdom17 Posts
On January 19 2011 04:50 Electric.Jesus wrote: Quick question? Why is everybody convinced that mammoths will taste good? Played too much age of empires? From what I have found out on the internet, elephant meat is "not repulsive" which is not what I would be looking for in meat, to be honest. http://www.wowhead.com/item=34736/chunk-o-mammoth Doesn't that look tasty? Well, if it was cooked? | ||
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BritishBeef
United Kingdom372 Posts
Haha i guess technically since we are made in gods own image we are mini wana be god's ? oh wait the worst sin of all is pretending to be god ... | ||
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Piste
6183 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. On January 18 2011 21:14 ZerGuy wrote: Jurassic Park? Also, the methods they plan to use aren't new or anything (at least I believe so). What's the point? Do we want to make mammoths walk the surface of earth, or is it for making steps forward in genetics? From what I've read it's new breaktroughs in genetic science that makes this more possible. Sure they've known other methods earlier. | ||
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BuuGhost
Netherlands340 Posts
On January 19 2011 05:20 BritishBeef wrote: Haha i guess technically since we are made in gods own image we are mini wana be god's ? oh wait the worst sin of all is pretending to be god ... If it works then it does, If it doesn't try harder. If we stopped making new discoveries or advanced our technology we'd still be without televisions and computers. The guy who invented the wheel probably is considered a God because if it never got invented imagine the pain in the lower back, the dead bodies. the long travel distances. Ect I think its good they try. But i hope they have prepared for everything that possibly could go wrong. It might turn out 100x stronger than they thought and a city may fall. Ugh i'm probably fantasying about it again. | ||
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xlep
Germany274 Posts
On January 19 2011 04:12 whiteguycash wrote: I can't wait until the Tusks are commercialized and the meat harvested to feed thousands. think about how many kids wouldn't go starving if there was a healthy population of Mammoth to provide meat to them and their families. The Tusks could be used to fashion luxuries sold at a high price, which the proceeds could be used to counteract the financial loss from giving away the meat that could have otherwise been sold. There's no way that something like this would be used in a way to "help" other people  You'd also have to feed the Mammoth until it's grown up, so you'd probably pay much more than you can get out of selling the stuff | ||
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a176
Canada6688 Posts
On January 19 2011 00:06 Jstor wrote: You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could...you never stopped to think if you should ![[image loading]](http://cghm.org/wow/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/ian_malcolm.jpg) ![[image loading]](http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsA/667-10106.gif) Condors, if I were to clone a flock of condors, you wouldn't have anything to say! | ||
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proot
United States126 Posts
The DNA also isn't as straight forward as many people that learn about cloning believe. There are factors(epigenetics) a lot of scientists don't understand, particularly with age. The mammoth may be born as a baby, but the nuclear DNA in the cells of the mammoth will still be as old as the mammoth it was derived from. This will be sufficient enough to learn enough about a single mammoth, but it won't be enough to bring back mammoths as a species. | ||
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Half
United States2554 Posts
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 Man what is wrong with you. They're doing it because cloning Mammoths is COOOOOL. I mean, that's what drives science, at heart. Atom theory or early Space research wasn't initiated out of immediate benefit, they were done out of curiosity alone. Psh...they of all people should have learned the lessons of Jurassic Park, throughout history humans have destroyed and threatened to extinct most of the ambient lifeforms on this planet because of interfering and trying to control nature. The evolution of life on this planet Is like a billion years old, whenever "scientist" go about changing the biological eco system with gene manipulation thinking they can predict the result they end up with unpredictable unwanted results they can't rectify and all hell breaks lose. Feel like a lot of people here needs to read this and get some perspective. http://dresdencodak.com/comics/2009-09-22-caveman_science_fiction.jpg | ||
BisuDagger
Bisutopia19307 Posts
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dantroid225
United States56 Posts
![[image loading]](http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/ff447/dantroid225/800px-JP-IanMalcolm.jpg) No hold on, this is not some species that was obliterated by deforestation, or the building of a dam. Mammoths, uh, *had* their shot, and nature *selected* them for extinction! | ||
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SpoR
United States1542 Posts
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