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Scientists Bring Back Extinct Animal After 10,000 Years

Gordy327 said:
Bringing back extinct species would likely be easier to contain or control than viruses. Putting down Manny the Mammoth would be a simpler task than developing new vaccines for viruses.
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There may be some upsides to this...

It's possible, especially if we ever get over our completely destructive effect on the environment and can re-introduce extinct species but even then...

Those ecosystems have changed and adapted to the lack of that animal.

There are many unforeseen upsides and many unforeseen downsides, this is playing god and the way our world is turning out, do I trust big companies with the ability to bring species back to life using DNA?

The trepidation I feel about it, I believe is warranted.

 
Jetboogieman said:
There may be some upsides to this...

It's possible, especially if we ever get over our completely destructive effect on the environment and can re-introduce extinct species but even then...

Those ecosystems have changed and adapted to the lack of that animal.

There are many unforeseen upsides and many unforeseen downsides, this is playing god and the way our world is turning out, do I trust big companies with the ability to bring species back to life using DNA?

The trepidation I feel about it, I believe is warranted.

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Yep, just because something can be done, doesn’t make it a good idea to do so.
 
Jetboogieman said:
There may be some upsides to this...

It's possible, especially if we ever get over our completely destructive effect on the environment and can re-introduce extinct species but even then...

Those ecosystems have changed and adapted to the lack of that animal.

There are many unforeseen upsides and many unforeseen downsides, this is playing god and the way our world is turning out, do I trust big companies with the ability to bring species back to life using DNA?

The trepidation I feel about it, I believe is warranted.

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I doubt unextincted animals would be produced in sufficient numbers to significantly affect an ecosystem. It's probable few specimens might be brought back as a scientific curiosity and contained within a controlled environment like a zoo.
 
Let's be a little more constructive.
Scientists, business, and politicians don't give a shit (for the most part) about wolves and saber-toothed tigers... they are primarily interested in experiments in genetics.
Throughout its history, humanity has been in an evolutionary key, the strong survive, the weak die and do not give offspring.
Now the situation has changed... and this affects humanity, those who 200 years ago would not have lived to adulthood, now live safely and leave offspring. And there is no way here without the intervention of geneticists, and scientists need experience.
 
Jetboogieman said:
There may be some upsides to this...

It's possible, especially if we ever get over our completely destructive effect on the environment and can re-introduce extinct species but even then...

Those ecosystems have changed and adapted to the lack of that animal.

There are many unforeseen upsides and many unforeseen downsides, this is playing god and the way our world is turning out, do I trust big companies with the ability to bring species back to life using DNA?

The trepidation I feel about it, I believe is warranted.

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I was going to post that scene. So fitting here.
 
iliveonramen said:
I was going to post that scene. So fitting here.
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Kinda love that as a kid it all went over my head, just wanted to see dinosaurs eat people lol.

Now as an adult it’s actually a pretty profound and interesting scene in an otherwise run of the mill (but still great) summer blockbuster.
 
Gordy327 said:
Bringing back extinct species would likely be easier to contain or control than viruses. Putting down Manny the Mammoth would be a simpler task than developing new vaccines for viruses.
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A fair point, but still unknown what unintended side effects the introduction of that extinct species would bring.
 
eohrnberger said:
A fair point, but still unknown what unintended side effects the introduction of that extinct species would bring.
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We won't know until we try. Science is exciting like that.
 
Gordy327 said:
We won't know until we try. Science is exciting like that.
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I'd just as soon not release another pandemic onto the world.
Seems like you are not worried about that.
This causes me to worry.
 
eohrnberger said:
I'd just as soon not release another pandemic onto the world.
Seems like you are not worried about that.
This causes me to worry.
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This isn't virology or creating viruses. It's closer along the lines of cloning. And no, I'm not worried.
 
After collecting the DNA, what is the next laboratory step to creating a living being?
 
Bum said:
Dire wolves have not walked the planet for nearly 10,000 years. But thanks to advancements in science, the long-extinct canine has been brought back to existence.
On Monday morning, genetic engineering company Colossal Biosciences announced that it had successfully brought back the dire wolf from extinction using a process that included extracting DNA from two fossils and making different 20 edits to the genetic code of a gray wolf – the species’ closest living relative – to replicate the DNA of a dire wolf.



Ooooookay. 😐
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Cool.

The Stark family celebrates!
 
Gordy327 said:
First, dire wolves. Next, wooly mammoths.
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Woolly Mammoths might have been more useful in Game of Thrones - at least north of the Wall

(on the other hand, you probably don't want some undead woolly mammoth charging at your wall. Leave that to dragons)

the pups look cute, tho, as all pups do

 
Bum said:
Dire wolves have not walked the planet for nearly 10,000 years. But thanks to advancements in science, the long-extinct canine has been brought back to existence.
On Monday morning, genetic engineering company Colossal Biosciences announced that it had successfully brought back the dire wolf from extinction using a process that included extracting DNA from two fossils and making different 20 edits to the genetic code of a gray wolf – the species’ closest living relative – to replicate the DNA of a dire wolf.



Ooooookay. 😐
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Except they didn't. These are not dire wolves, these a gray wolves with some edited genes.
 
"Bring back dire wolf" is a bit of an overstatement.
 
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