did anyone else figure we would have cloned wooly mammoths by now?

[Gato Moteado]

or am i the only one?

after they cloned the sheep, i figured some scientists would work on bringing wooly mammoths, dodo birds, passenger pigeons, thylacines and other recently extinct species back to life. i figured by now we would be able to go to a cryptozoo and see mammoths in real life. and once they did that, i figured it wouldn't be to much longer before they brought dinosaurs back ala jurrasic park.

what the hell is taking them so long?

[DS1]

1. The beef industry is suppressing the research and buying out cell lines

[Kali]

5. ...

:spray: :rofl:

:thumbsup: :patriot:

[underpants]

2. AND we could have trained them to chaffeur us around in our flying cars

but no we have to sit around and wait for our "alcoholic" attention whore cousins in the oil industry run in yelling "Wait wait wait I want to do this..." and so forth like always and we all have to stop what we were doing until they get THEIR WAY because we have to appease them you know :eyes:

[Twillig]

3. I figured they would have cloned Secretariat by now.

That sounds like something useful. (i.e., $$)

[Gato Moteado]

4. well, why stop there....let's clone michael jordan

imagine an NBA team with 5 michael jordans (all wearing number 23). who could beat them?

[Twillig]

6. Who could beat them?

A clone of the 1992 Portland Trailblazers!

With Big (Clone) Bill Walton at Center backed up by Oden!

That's who!

(Go Beav's, go Blazers; drop dead, Ducks.)

[Gato Moteado]

9. not on their best day

five michael jordans could beat ten bill waltons.

[Twillig]

11. Only one Bill Walton, how many 6'4" Jordans can play center?

none

:beer:

[Gato Moteado]

15. like i said....not on their best day

bill walton was great, but michael jordan changed the nba. look at some of the centers the bulls had on their championship teams. they had luc longley for chrissakes and they were winning 70 games a year and sweeping teams in the playoffs. it didn't matter who they had at center on those teams....you or i could have played center on those teams, a broomstick with a head and no arms could have played and it wouldn't have made much of a difference. so, yeah, 5 michael jordans could beat any team you put up against them and it wouldn't even be close.

[MonkeyFunk]

12. The Harlem Globetrotters would beat 'em

those guys never lose.

[Crabby Appleton]

7. I was going to clone some, but global warming would just make them

go extinct again.

[THUNDER HANDS]

8. how can you clone an extinct animal?

wouldn't you need at least one of the extinct species, at least a female one, to birth it?

[Gato Moteado]

10. probably a modern day elephant could carry the cloned embryo....

...and there's plenty of mammoth dna around as they find them thawing out from time to time near the arctic circle.

[mainegreen]

13. Hell, I'm still waiting for them to create the cloned Lenin Marching Band.

x(

[Lisa]

14. passenger pigeons would be interesting ...

Their egg incubation period was even shorter than a chicken's (2 weeks compared to 3). Of course, one would have to hand-feed the first generation of squabs for a few weeks, but the diet for that can be mixed up with the ingredients found in most kitchens (and all pet stores have formula that would work).

With large areas of the east coast returning to forest, there might even be habitat for them. The absence of the American chestnut (killed off by disease in the last century) might be an issue,since it provided part of the diet, BUT I hear that a resistant variety of the tree has been bred. And there are always acorns and beechnuts!

[pitohui]

16. where would you put a wooly mammoth? EOM

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[Joe Fields]

17. Isn't Robin Williams a cloning experiment gone horribly wrong?

[Fire Walk With Me]

18. They're working on this huge-mouthed charmer instead:

http://tasmanian-tiger.com/

If you like the subject of cloned mammoths, try the John Varley book "Mammoth". Heck, read all of his books.