Mammoth, anyone?

[kallend 2,027]

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Somehow this does not seem a good idea to me.

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[shropshire 0]

Playing god? What could possibly go wrong


Actually if that's a picture of a Mammoth ..... I've got one in my bath drain already...

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seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008413077_mammoth20.html

Somehow this does not seem a good idea to me.

Well Mammoths have been dead a long time but we could bring back Dodo's and Thylacines and Passenger Pigeons and Yangtze River Dolphins and Desert Rat Kangeroos and Nendo Tube Nosed Fruit Bats and Javan Tigers and Scicilian Dwarf Elephants and Quaggas and Labrador Ducks and Great Auks and Tahitian Red-Billed Rails and Pig-footed Bandicoots and...

[airdvr 210]

Jurrassic Park anyone?

Please don't dent the planet.

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Jurrassic Park anyone?

You beat me to it.

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[Andy9o8 2]

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Playing god?

Cripes, I've always hated that expression. Even assuming, for discussion, the existence of a FSM, She gave humans intelligence to be applied in practice, not merely held in reserve.

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Playing god?

Cripes, I've always hated that expression. Even assuming, for discussion, the existence of a FSM, She gave humans intelligence to be applied in practice, not merely held in reserve.

Exactly. I want my Dodo goddamit!

[Belgian_Draft 0]

I wonder if they taste like chicken?

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[Andrewwhyte 1]

OHHH, I get it now. The bible thumpers aren't saying that man walked the earth with dinosaurs. It's a prophesy.

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Playing god? What could possibly go wrong

How about accidently creating a FSM...I mean it seems pretty easy to skrew up some of the 400,000 sites....and from the looks of that picture in the article, it seems like thats exactly what they'd get....their very own FSM that they can marvel over and worship.

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I wonder if they taste like chicken?

I'm guessing that they'll taste like Elephant.
More to the point, is trading Mammoth-Ivory legal?...

And how soon can Sarah Palin get a Mammoth-Skin-Rug for her new office? Actually, cancel that last - she hasn't got a new office.

Mike.

Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable.

Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

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More to the point, is trading Mammoth-Ivory legal?...

I can see them producing some deformed ivory producing factory creature in the near future.

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More to the point, is trading Mammoth-Ivory legal?...

I can see them producing some deformed ivory producing factory creature in the near future.

Yes. They could call the creature some amalgamation of "Mammoth" & "Ivory"...

Something like: "Mammory"?

Mike.

PS: I'll let Y'all make your own jokes on this feed=line.

Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable.

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Somehow this does not seem a good idea to me.

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The same would be technically possible with Neanderthals

Personally I dont think they are really extinct here around here.

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[Darius11 12]

Well if you don’t like the religious reasons why it is not ethical, how about the natural reasons? Nature often will kill the weak for the good of the ecosystem. There is a reason why some animals have goon existent and fucking with the balance that nature holds is not a good idea.

No matter what set of laws you believe in we are violating them both.

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[BillyVance 34]

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Jurrassic Park anyone?

You beat me to it.

You got that right. Jurassic Park becomes reality? If they're gonna clone some of those extinct species, make sure they can't swim or fly, and just dump them on some isolated god-forsaken island.

Oh wait, they did in the movie.

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Well if you don’t like the religious reasons why it is not ethical, how about the natural reasons? Nature often will kill the weak for the good of the ecosystem. There is a reason why some animals have goon existent and fucking with the balance that nature holds is not a good idea.

Ah, now that may be a sensible reason. Kind of like introducing a non-native species into a habitat.

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I'll have mine medium-rare, please.

[Darius11 12]

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Kind of like introducing a non-native species into a habitat.

Yes exactly, I think we are a bit over confidant. I truly do not believe that we know the true implications of such actions, and introducing a new species that has been extinct might produce problems that we have not even thought about.

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No matter what set of laws you believe in we are violating them both.

Throughout history, we've discovered or created laws and then bent or broke them. It's something we're good at ...

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Kind of like introducing a non-native species into a habitat.

Yes exactly, I think we are a bit over confidant. I truly do not believe that we know the true implications of such actions, and introducing a new species that has been extinct might produce problems that we have not even thought about.

If you're talking about Pterodactyls, Iguanodon or even a Mammoth then maybe you have a point. But the Yangtze River Dolphin bcame extinct in 2006, Western Black Rhinoceros (2006), Sturdee's Pipistrelle (2000), Lord Howe Long-eared Bat (1996), Greater Short-tailed Bat (1988). Bringing those species back would just be undoing a recent fuck up, wouldn't it?

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Kind of like introducing a non-native species into a habitat.

Yes exactly, I think we are a bit over confidant. I truly do not believe that we know the true implications of such actions, and introducing a new species that has been extinct might produce problems that we have not even thought about.

Introducing wheat to North America was a good thing, no?
Admittedly not much good has come from introducing barley to the same.

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Bringing those species back would just be undoing a recent fuck up, wouldn't it?

If it is obvious that we made them extinct I agree, but if nature decided to kill something off then let it be.


Here is a question. Lets say they just cloned a river dolphin who would be its parent? How would you train or teach it what it would normally learn from its parents?

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[billvon 2,998]

>Lets say they just cloned a river dolphin who would be its parent? How would
>you train or teach it what it would normally learn from its parents?

In cases where orphaned animals are raised by humans for eventual release, they teach it survival behaviors (including, unfortunately, disliking humans) and then release it.