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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Nuclear1 on January 17, 2011, 11:51:29 am
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110117/wl_asia_afp/japansciencemammoth
TOKYO (AFP) – Japanese researchers will launch a project this year to resurrect the long-extinct mammoth by using cloning technology to bring the ancient pachyderm back to life in around five years time.
The researchers will try to revive the species by obtaining tissue this summer from the carcass of a mammoth preserved in a Russian research laboratory, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported.
"Preparations to realise this goal have been made," Akira Iritani, leader of the team and a professor emeritus of Kyoto University, told the mass-circulation daily.
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lol **** u, god
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I'm skeptic about this. Sure, whatever the outcome of this experiment, conclusions will be drawn and science will move forward, though I highly doubt the first attempt will be successful. Cloning sheep and "resurrecting" a mammoth like this are two different things.
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This will end with a mutated giant mammoth/spider hybrid terrorisng the planet Cloverfield style if you ask me.....
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This reminds me of a book called Ilium by Dan Simmons...
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mutated giant mammoth/spider hybrid
This.
A thousand of these.
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lol **** u, god
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It's getting old. Stop.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110117/wl_asia_afp/japansciencemammoth
TOKYO (AFP) – Japanese researchers will launch a project this year to resurrect the long-extinct mammoth by using cloning technology to bring the ancient pachyderm back to life in around five years time.
The researchers will try to revive the species by obtaining tissue this summer from the carcass of a mammoth preserved in a Russian research laboratory, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported.
"Preparations to realise this goal have been made," Akira Iritani, leader of the team and a professor emeritus of Kyoto University, told the mass-circulation daily.
If any nation other than Japan was doing this, I wouldn't be worried. :P
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As something with a biology several million years out of date with current bacteria, I wonder if there'll be a pool on how long before they all die of something ;)
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:yes: AWESOME. :yes2:
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lol **** u, god
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It's getting old. Stop.
baw-haw-haw
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As something with a biology several million years out of date with current bacteria, I wonder if there'll be a pool on how long before they all die of something ;)
The woolly mammoth went extinct around 4000 years ago.
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They should probably clone more than one, just so that their genetic eggs aren't all in one basket.
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They should clone a bunch and then make Mammoth Island and then give the mammoths rocket launchers
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They should clone a bunch and then make Mammoth Island and then give the mammoths rocket launchers
That's the smartest thing you've ever posted :yes:
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No no no. They need to strap a pair of tank cannons onto each of them so we can have Mammoth Tanks.
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As something with a biology several million years out of date with current bacteria, I wonder if there'll be a pool on how long before they all die of something ;)
The woolly mammoth went extinct around 4000 years ago.
For some reason I read "dinosaur" :nervous:
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Oh no there goes Tokyo. Go go woolie mammoth.
Wait that's not right.
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As something with a biology several million years out of date with current bacteria, I wonder if there'll be a pool on how long before they all die of something ;)
The woolly mammoth went extinct around 4000 years ago.
For some reason I read "dinosaur" :nervous:
there was a comment along the lines of fitting weapons to a T-rex (or some such) not long ago
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No no no. They need to strap a pair of tank cannons onto each of them so we can have Mammoth Tanks.
Win right here.
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This might actually be feasible since mammoths do have distant relatives still alive.
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This might actually be feasible since mammoths do have distant relatives still alive.
they'll have to return their inheritances
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Kaiju Defense Force had better be up on their game this time.
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wow, second page and no jerassic park reference?
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Really spectacular, spared no expense.
(http://www.genetologisch-onderzoek.nl/wp-content/image_upload/mammoth.jpg)
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wow, second page and no jerassic park reference?
We think the author's a hack with his "man cannot play god" message, what did you expect?
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As something with a biology several million years out of date with current bacteria, I wonder if there'll be a pool on how long before they all die of something ;)
Breaking News: Mammoths extinct... :cough: ... again (?)
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In other news, Bob Hope briefly came back to life today only to die shortly in a horrible motorcycle accident...
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So we're going to bring an arctic animal back alive when the arctic is diminishing to the extent polar bears for instance are at risk, therefore, re-introduced mammoths will be at risk. Unless we keep them in Zoos. But thats just weird... created an extinct animal for the sole purpose of viewing pleasure. "You there mammoth, see, you're not designed to live. You're designed to be Live!"
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So we're going to bring an arctic animal back alive when the arctic is diminishing to the extent polar bears for instance are at risk, therefore, re-introduced mammoths will be at risk. Unless we keep them in Zoos. But thats just weird... created an extinct animal for the sole purpose of viewing pleasure. "You there mammoth, see, you're not designed to live. You're designed to be Live!"
The Cynic in me is wondering how long it would take until someone wants to "hunt" them. lol.
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You can only hunt them in the traditional way of driving them off a cliff with a spear.
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You can only hunt them in the traditional way of driving them off a cliff with a spear.
Groups of twenty with stone axes. The survivors win.
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This will end with a mutated giant mammoth/spider hybrid terrorisng the planet Cloverfield style if you ask me.....
No, that's the next SyFy original movie.
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I believe they were hunted with a rather long spear, but I could be mistaken.
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So we're going to bring an arctic animal back alive when the arctic is diminishing to the extent polar bears for instance are at risk, therefore, re-introduced mammoths will be at risk. Unless we keep them in Zoos. But thats just weird... created an extinct animal for the sole purpose of viewing pleasure. "You there mammoth, see, you're not designed to live. You're designed to be Live!"
That's what I was thinlking. With a diminishing habitat, where are they going to live? It's like we bring them back from extinction so that we can watch them become extinct a second time.
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You can only hunt them in the traditional way of driving them off a cliff with a spear.
Groups of twenty with stone axes. The survivors win.
If they're all average people, that would probably be none.
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So we're going to bring an arctic animal back alive when the arctic is diminishing to the extent polar bears for instance are at risk, therefore, re-introduced mammoths will be at risk. Unless we keep them in Zoos. But thats just weird... created an extinct animal for the sole purpose of viewing pleasure. "You there mammoth, see, you're not designed to live. You're designed to be Live!"
That's what I was thinlking. With a diminishing habitat, where are they going to live? It's like we bring them back from extinction so that we can watch them become extinct a second time.
I think it's more likely that they're being brought back to secure fame and funding. 'Made-a-mammoth' will look great on their resume.
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I believe they were hunted with a rather long spear, but I could be mistaken.
Correct, the driving off a cliff thing was Bison, or Buffallo, at least, something that began with 'B'.
Ironically enough, it's often believed that the over-hunting of the Mammoth by the Environmentally friendly Native Americans was a large contributor to their extinction, in fact, it's also believed that it was that which prompted them to adopt a more symbiotic role towards nature.
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Am I the only one who wants a Mammoth burger now?
I mean...bison is WAY better than cow, and this is even bigger.
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[average modern people-mode]
I want a rocking chair made out of these strange white things coming out of that hairy cat.
[/average modern people-mode]
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Mammoths with frickin' lasers on their heads.
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One step at a time. First the cloned version with rocket launchers then the cyborg version with a laser shooting trunk.
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Somehow, responding to all of this with "Snuffleupagus" is unusually appropriate...
:p
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Somehow, responding to all of this with "Snuffleupagus" is unusually appropriate...
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Teeheehee, poll added :D
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I'd totally give anything to see a live snuffleupagus. o_o
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Wonder how old Dee-Dee is nowadays :nervous: a Snuffy would bring her running to me<3
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This could be the premise of Ice Age 25.
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*sigh* there's a reason why we undergo evolution. Seriously, researchers, stop trying to play God :rolleyes:
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I dunno. Playing God, if necessary precautions are taken, is pretty cool. This is even almost as amazing as creating life.
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*sigh* there's a reason why we undergo evolution. Seriously, researchers, stop trying to play God :rolleyes:
Evolution is blind and has no predictive ability, and may do away with species that have useful traits now which did not then. In other words, woolly mammoths may well be the cheaper and less polluting alternative to cows by tonnage of usable animal product.
And we really do need one.
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mmmm... tasty mammoth...
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What the heck would mammoth even taste like?
I assume no ones ever tasted elephant meat...
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my ass pull guess, would be it tastes like beef.
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my ass pull guess, would be it tastes like beef.
If not, the corporations would probably find a way to make it taste like beef and find some way to imply it's beef without crossing any laws. People fear change.
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More interesting as a "because we can" application of reproductive cloning than any real practical significance. Cloned animals in general do not fare all that well (epigenetics says no!).