Does anyone else feel like this is irresponsible? Like, I get it, humans have been destroying the ecosystems of endangered and extinct animals for awhile now. But the world is actively warming up. And even if this is successful, how do we create enough of them to survive and procreate with defects etc. And where the hell will they live? I just have some concerns.
we have no idea what happens next
Make a variant with multiple butts
Or make is exactly the size on the picture, where the mammoth fits in a petri dish.
but with five butts
- Step 1: acquire genetic material
- Step 2: supplement material with closely related extant species <- We are here
- Step 3: Get an egg cell with your Frankenstein-DNA to survive and divide
- Step 4: Produce a healthy baby
- Step 5: Get a small population in a Zoo/Park
- Step 6: have a permanent wild population in a specific area
- Step 7: have enough of those areas to declare repopulation a success
Is fixating on the mammoths here first-world centrism? The article mentions 4 other species that have way better chances. Also, given how far we are from actual wild mammoths, that “it can solve climate change” argument is just wrong the way it’s been presented.
It’s mostly people-with-money-centric.
Poachers. Poachers are next.
I hope they have put a substantial amount of thought into potential problems that could arise. (Not that it will actually be like JP)
Nothing bad will happen, as long as they spare no expense.
Your financial problems are not my concern!
And everyone knows not to mess with the raptor fences
It’s all fun and games until you’re being chased down in your Jeep by a dodo.
The lesson there is: Spare no expense on your IT budget!
That’s crazy cause I think it’ll be here tomorrow
It’s amazing that people are still wasting resources on this kinda stuff while the planet burns.
To be fair, I think research on mammoth cloning started a good while ago and, if scientific research is anything like a start-up (spitballing here, I have no clue), doing a massive reorientation mid-process ends up costing more in the long term.
Still MFW we’re cloning woolly mammoths on a boiling planet. Lol. Lmao, even.
Not everyone can work specifically on the one thing you find most pressing. Some people are hairdressers, some people work in a supermarket, some people are learning about genetics, some people are actors.
The platform you’re posting on isn’t essential for saving the planet, should it still exist? The servers it uses create pollution.
I don’t know, bringing back some of the species that this burning caused to go extinct - instead of the celebs mentioned in the article - would be nice.
Some degenerate gonna fuck that mammoth!
I really don’t wanna upvote this, but I can’t not
So, like totally the same feeling! 🤣🤣🤣
I have an idea: Mammoth burgers
Worked in the docudrama “the Flintstones”
I’ve said this a million times before, but if we’re playing gods anyway, can’t we make them dog sized also?
I would totally get one or maybe two.
Even dog sized they’d probably weigh like 200Kg. Mammoths be thicc
If they’re like their cousins you don’t want a pet that smart. Especially with a trunk. Good luck mammoth proofing your house.
“We have no idea what happens next.”
Scientists: we know almost exactly what will happen.
Articles about deextinction often reference the Pyrenean Ibex that died 7 minutes after birth. Why has nobody tried that one again?
But why? We have no iceage anymore.
Obviously for the local petting zoo
Plus, mammoth burgers
So we’re talking about de-extinction at a time when 70% of the planet’s biodiversity has been lost in the last 50 years?
That just means we can kill them all now. We’ll just bring em back later at a safer time. Problem sloved
Yet another thing we have entire books and movie series about what will go wrong, and probably how. Yet somehow a way will be found to make it go wrong in exactly those ways.
