Wooly mice to wooly mammoths. Incredibly cool or incredibly stupid?
I’ve been hearing about this idea: https://apnews.com/article/colossal-biosciences-woolly-mammoth-b381f6f48eeed0828535cf9604263140 and personally, I love the science and the idea of developing a greater understanding of extinct genomes in general, but I have some concerns about the possible abuses of this kind of tech.
This is not straight across the board cloning, it involves some rather dramatic jiggery-pokery with existing species.
Would Michael Crichton cheer or groan?
Your take?
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It scares me but right now, maybe unleashing the woolly mammoths and dinosaurs would be a good thing?
OMG! I think it’s a fabulous idea!
I think they would be less scary than snakes. Snakes are slithering and sneaky. You would hear a Wolly Mamoth coming from a long way off.
And think of the fabulous sweaters that could be made!
They should do that to humans. They have been hideous skinwalkers for far too long.
I don’t want to say this….but the above answers made me think of how great a full fur jacket would make me feel in 15 degrees.
No shirt underneath, puffing a cigar.
Sorry, but leave it to humans to immediately jump to “What can we get from them?” : (
That premise is exactly where Jurassic Park went wrong.
My daughter said they look like hamsters.
Michael would think it’s a Lost World.
I would like to see a Sabertooth Squirrel.
I still have the mammoth wool coat that my dad wore, when he crossed the Bering land bridge. ;-0
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