Scientists on Verge of Creating Hybrid Woolly Mammoth-Elephant Embryo

[yuiyoshida]

[mdbl]

1. my only question is....

why??

[yuiyoshida]

2. Oh that's easy

The Republicans need A FRESH update of their GOP Symbol.

[mdbl]

3. ROFL!

Along those lines I figured it could be to get DNA to make their small parts bigger.

[DetlefK]

7. Because no research is an island.

Einstein's General Relativity has yielded several theories for a faster-than-light Warp-Drive, the first in the 1990s by Miguel Alcubierre.

The missile-research of the Nazis eventually brought mankind to the Moon.

NASA-research eventually yielded Teflon.

The particle-research-center CERN developed the original internet for better data-sharing among scientists, from where it metastasized until it engulfed the whole world.

Research into the GMR-effect yielded hard-drives for computers (which replaced tapes and are in turn being replaced by solid-state memory).

Research into electron-lithography yielded the knowledge to build smaller and smaller computer-processors.

Research into interface-effects and metallo-organics yielded LED-screens that are bendable.

[yuiyoshida]

8. You forgot one...

NASA'S research on what Astronauts need in space brought us TANG!

[Cattledog]

4. So humans are causing extinction on an unprecedented scale,

but we spend resources on this?

[DetlefK]

6. Yeah! Undoing extinction is bad... somehow.

[mdbl]

9. There is a reason they are extinct

and I don't think man caused it that time. There is barely enough areas left for the poor african elephants, much less a wooly mammoth.

[yuiyoshida]

10. JURASSIC PARK! JURASSIC PARK! JURASSIC PARK!

[Quixote1818]

11. I think it is cool! Would love to see what they would have looked like.

As Emerson once said, "All life is an experiment, the more experiments the better!"

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

13. Pictures work for me - otherwise I dont get the attraction of having

a living animal (or several) outside of the context of the environment they evolved to fit into and be a part of. Seems rather cruel to me... what a sad and lonely existance.

Oh - there are some actual specimens on display in British Museum - found intact with fur, tusks etc. also other extinct gigantic mammals. Now THOSE were cool to look at! .Theseothers will just be genetic freaks made to resemble a mammoth.

[Quixote1818]

15. Genetic freaks?

The genes are there inside all elephants. They will just be turning those genes back on. If the climate were to get cold again or if regular elephants were placed in Siberia those genes would naturally turn back on and you would virtually have the same genetic animal.

Jack Horner explains the process of turning a chicken back into a dinosaur by turning old genes back on and others off:

Just looked at the photos of the mammoths you talked about and they look shriveled up and missing half there fur. I will take the real thing.

[democratisphere]

5. republiCONs want to take US back to an earlier time.

Jurassic Park on deck.

[johnnyrocket]

12. Could we...or should we?

[yuiyoshida]

14. This!!

Jurassic Park! Jurassic Park! Jurassic Park! Jurassic Park! Jurassic Park! Jurassic Park!

[GaYellowDawg]

16. Watch out!!

Fictional Luddite strikes!!