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- Em Adespoton ( @adespoton@lemmy.ca ) 17•17 days ago
What happens next? A short burst of mammoth steaks followed by re-extinction.
- Evil_Shrubbery ( @Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ) 8•16 days ago
“You are alive again, no need to thank us. Now go out and play, it’s winter and 40°C, you’ll love it!”
- twinnie ( @twinnie@feddit.uk ) 7•17 days ago
I don’t fucking care, I want woolly mammoths and dodos.
- 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘 ( @01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ) English7•16 days ago
The science is very neat, but should likely be focusing on solving current issues instead of creating new ones.
- threeduck ( @threeduck@aussie.zone ) 5•16 days ago
Scientists have been edging us with woolly mammoths for decades.
- 0x0 ( @0x0@programming.dev ) 5•17 days ago
Ah yes, yet another case of Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
- Dae ( @DaedalousIlios@pawb.social ) 4•16 days ago
“We have no idea what happens next.”
I’m pretty sure there’s a movie about this.
- PowerCrazy ( @PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml ) English3•17 days ago
The genetic science is cool, the consequences of the science are non-existent. The consequences of using them as bio-engineering agents is obviously an open question, but a distraction at this point of time since governments around the world have no appetite for environmental science that doesn’t directly make someone money.
As for “what happens next,” it either becomes commercially viable and wolly mammoths are seen as mundane and numerous in the next few decades, or it becomes a one-off like Dolly the sheep and the herd population of woolly mammoths stays <10 plus maybe a few zoos.
- t�m ( @finickydesert@lemmy.ml ) English3•17 days ago
Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
- hex ( @hex@programming.dev ) 2•17 days ago
Imagine how confused that mammoth is going to be.
- Swedneck ( @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ) 3•16 days ago
man i wish that’s how genetics worked
- hex ( @hex@programming.dev ) 1•16 days ago
I was just thinking about Elephants and how intelligent and social they are. A lone mammoth would be sad.
- Swedneck ( @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ) 1•16 days ago
i mean they’d be birthed by elephants, presumably they’d also live with elephants at first.
start with making sure the things actually stay alive, then move onto making them act like mammoths properly.
- hex ( @hex@programming.dev ) 2•16 days ago
Hmm good point. For some reason I just assumed they’d grow it in a tube.
edit: you’re right, this is from the article:
To produce the calves, Colossal scientists will first identify the genes encoding the woolly mammoth’s most emblematic physical traits, such as shaggy hair, curved tusks, fat deposits and a dome-shaped cranium. They will then insert these genes into the genome of closely related, and therefore genetically similar, Asian elephants (Elephas maximus).
So they’re basically gonna create a new type of mammoth (basically) by gene editing an existing species…
- HumanPenguin ( @HumanPenguin@feddit.uk ) English1•13 days ago
What happans next?
McDonalds releases a new burger!