They want to introduce them to the Arctic environments… poor Mammoths are being brought back just in time to be among the first mass extrinctions of climate change
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If they’re basically hybrids of mammoths and tropical Asian elephants, they might be able to tolerate a greater range of environments than their parent species.
Some line of humans have held a grudge against mammoths for millennia because one of them killed their ancestor's mother.
They're going to bring them back just to make them extinct again.
Have we learned nothing from Jurassic Park? Why not get started on the T virus next so we can have giant mutant zombies too?
I don't care any more. It's not like the world could be more fucked. Wooly mammoths, I'm here for it.
Seriously though, between climate change's heating, the tornadoes and the wildfires a lot of species are toast. And if we want to bring carbon back under control at this point (with the sea now releasing it instead of containing it), we'll need some kind of genetically engineered plants. So, given all these things, there's no reason to say no to mammoths, bring it.
Would the re-introduced species be the intellectual property of Colossal? Would breeding mammoths be patent infringement?
@AbouBenAdhem you can patent how you make rats and knock out mice, so kind of, yes. But not necessarily the living organism. The mice have been genetically altered to “knock out” genes (strings of dna that code for a protein). The organisms - the mice with the knocked out genes- are licensed as research materials. That is my understanding.
Notwithstanding all of that, creating clones of woolly mammoths is a spectacularly bad idea and probably unethical. WTF are you going to do with one if you succeed?
@btaf45
IMO our overriding priority should be maximizing earth’s remaining biodiversity. While I’m not convinced that resurrecting extinct species is the most effective way to do it—or that this case is how it should be done—I’m not ready to declare it a bad idea in principle. Especially if we’re talking about a relatively recent extinction caused by human overhunting.
I mean if nothing else it seems better to start with a hairy elephant than fuckin' dinosaurs..
Spared no expense. Except for IT.
The only thing worse than hiring Newman for IT would be letting Kramer "help" him.
Is it weird I want to eat one?
Dude those burgers are gonna slap.
Mammoth is up there with triceratops on my "I wanna eat that" list. It's not weird.
It's all fun and games until they come back meaner and more bloodthirsty than history could even imagine.
Well, it was supposed to be humor... I guess next time I won't forget the /s.
Finally we’ll get to find out if they really sound like Ray Romano!
My take: They only want to make them so they can sell mammoth steaks and burgers
They want to recreate an ice-age mammal during record global warming. That’s smart.
This is of course after numerous attempts to use both pig and elephant DNA simultaneously and well, we all know the deal with that.
I heard there is a song.
When will we be able to ride them?
Not soon enough