De-Extinction. Bringing back the passenger pigeon and the wooly mammoth

[sean miguel]

A 39,000-year-old female woolly mammoth, which was found frozen in Siberia, Russia is pictured upon its arrival at an exhibition hall in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, July 9, 2013

The passenger pigeon, the dodo and the woolly mammoth are just a few of the species wiped off the Earth by changing environments and human activities.


Now, advances in biotechnology could enable scientists to bring extinct animals back from the grave. But critics argue the practice would only hinder conservation efforts, by resurrecting creatures that could not survive in the wild.

http://www.nbcnews.com/science/how-bring-extinct-animals-back-life-8C10995683?ocid=msnhp&pos=4

It's definitely intriguing.

Forget the wooly mammoth we need to find T-Rex.

 

[sean miguel]

I know this doesn't qualify as politics or religion but I consider it a philosophical topic which would be above "Whose asshole would you lick?" in the talk forum.

 

[Philbert]

It's definitely intriguing.

Forget the wooly mammoth we need to find T-Rex.

Fuck T-Rex I want them to bring back Herman Munster and Lilly...
I mean, after he eats a few hundred fat people and crushes a few Nissans and Dodge pickups, what fun is there in having a brainless gigantic destructo-reptile with no sense of humor or timing? It would be like Mariah M without the cooking show...

The Munster Family, on the other hand...

 

[Jack Davenport]

Helpless people on subway trains scream to God as he looks in on them!

 

[sean miguel]

Mods, please move this to talk. This is getting weird.

 

[Philbert]

I know this doesn't qualify as politics or religion but I consider it a philosophical topic which would be above "Whose asshole would you lick?" in the talk forum.

That was quite an about-face.

 

[Philbert]

Helpless people on subway trains scream to God as he looks in on them!

As T-Rex the Dinosaur begins to crunch noisily on commuters, they scream in terror!
"Who the fuck thought it would be a good idea to bring back giant carnivorous reptiles? God Damn it...that was my best suit!"
"Oww! That's gonna leave a mark!"
"Could you at least eat some of the people from the other side of the car? Those are all lawyers on that end!"
The horror...the horror.

 

[Jack Davenport]

Haven't you heard Phil? Mariah Milano says that all people that live in Texas and North Carolina are slack jawed yokels that aren't afforded lifes luxeries like public transportation. My monthly bus pass is 1st class up by the driver.

 

[Philbert]

Haven't you heard Phil? Mariah Milano says that all people that live in Texas and North Carolina are slack jawed yokels that aren't afforded lifes luxeries like public transportation. My monthly bus pass is 1st class up by the driver.

Well, I ain't got NO class when I rides muh Git'er There Ghetto Express to whar I'm a-goin' mos' mornins...

It ain't all fancy like that Floridy place, Ah rekon, but Ahm jes fahn wit it...

thas me 13th from da left...

 

[Jack Davenport]

Now don't go a gettin to shittin there are some real nice folk down in Flori-duh! Girls sometimes paint their toenails in different colors that looks like a Rubiks cube and the dudes don't have chins but they are nice people. They paint their houses orange and have purple shutters and stucco too! I got me a real good deal on a house there because they are foreclosing more there than the 4th hour of a Monopoly game.

 

[Mr. Daystar]

Helpless people on subway trains scream to God as he looks in on them!

Helpless people on subway trains scream BUG EYED, as he looks in on them.

Personally, if it was slated for extinction by natural means...leave it. But, if it was due to man, then I can't see a problem with weighing the pros and cons, and thinking about it. But I feel it should be a decision that's not taken lightly.

 

[Mayhem]

"Suuuure, this is how it starts. "Ooooh", "Aaaaah". But then it's followed by screaming......and running." - Jeff Goldblum

 

[The Yak]

Haven't you heard Phil? Mariah Milano says that all people that live in Texas and North Carolina are slack jawed yokels that aren't afforded lifes luxeries like public transportation. My monthly bus pass is 1st class up by the driver.

We don't deserve to be put in the same category as Texas. NC is the happy medium of urban and rural where you can take in a showing of "Tosca" at the opera house while 10 miles down the road some guy is having sex with a pig.

 

[Philbert]

We don't deserve to be put in the same category as Texas. NC is the happy medium of urban and rural where you can take in a showing of "Tosca" at the opera house while 10 miles down the road some guy is having sex with a pig.

You're right there...you have some improving to do to be considered on a par with the Great State of Texas.

 

[Rey C.]

It's definitely intriguing.

Yes, it is! Great topic! :thumbsup: Hopefully the system will let me rep you.

Scientists are also studying ways to bring back the Tasmanian Tiger/Thylacine - that's assuming that they're really extinct. There exists a preserved pup from over 100 years ago that they're pulling DNA from, but trying to figure out how to clone a Thylacine seems a daunting task. I have no doubts that we will eventually be able to do this. I think the only question is "when?".

 

[D-rock]

They won't be able to bring back the T-Rex. All DNA from that era is so disintegrated, broken, and chopped up there is no way of getting it back to what the original animal had.

 

[HehehehehehehehehehahaHyena]

Isn't bringing back things like the dodo which we made extinct merely rectifying our mistakes?

Personally I want to know when they can genetically engineer a sparrow to see in the dark well enough to kill any mosquitoes going for me at night and when I forget something at home he could fly home and get it for me.

 

[HehehehehehehehehehahaHyena]

They won't be able to bring back the T-Rex. All DNA from that era is so disintegrated, broken, and chopped up there is no way of getting it back to what the original animal had.

In the same way that we grow and then re-absorb a tail, relict DNA is present in descendants of the dinosaurs.
With a little tweaking, a chicken embryo will grow teeth. Don't ask me why that's a good thing; teeth make for terrible blowjobs.