Thanks Renfield.
Posted on 07/14/2013 8:08:58 AM PDT by Renfield
The idea would make headlines around the world and bring tears of joy to the planet's journalists. An adorable baby woolly mammoth, tottering on its newborn legs, is introduced to the media. Cloned from a few cells scraped from the permafrost of Siberia, the little creature provides the latest proof of the might of modern science and demonstrates the fact that extinction has at long last lost its sting.
It is a fascinating prospect, one that was raised again last week when the most recently discovered carcass of a mammoth was revealed to the public in Yokohama, Japan.
The female, thought to have been around 50 when she died, had lain frozen in the ground for tens of thousands of years. Yet she still had hair, muscle tissue, and possibly blood. Samples have now been sent to South Korea, where scientists say they are planning to use them to clone a mammoth, though the proposal is considered to be highly controversial.....
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Mammoths went extinct because they tasted so damn good
Like Mom always said; you feed it and clean up after it!
I have no moral problem with cloning animals, present or past, but not people.
I am concerned that cloning extinct animals, plants, insects, etc. could reintroduce dangerous, extinct pathologies.
Just how big is a woolly mammoth tick filled with a pint of blood?
What?
I am sure I saw one presiding over the Zimmerman trial.
Bring back T-Rex and the Saber Toothed Tiger, too.
Hardee's.
McD's is too "organic/healthy-eating/make-Michelle-happy" focused to advertize a Mammoth Burger these days.
I remember that show!
Whether we "should" or not is irrelevant in that context.
Why not? I am a capitalist—if it will make money and make people happy—why not? But, first lets bring back the pasenger Pidgeon. Then the Dodo bird. We need not make many of these trowbacks —Imagine Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Baily Circus with a trained Mastadon act? It would be gold on four legs.
I’d actually like to see the Wooly Mammoth brought back from extinction, presuming they could breed and repopulate, but we’d have to get Canada or Finland on board as the habitat for these creatures. If they don’t agree, it’s just not going to work.
There was more variety then with only three channels than there is now with 1000.
I miss those days, before they got rid of all the rural shows and started ramming their agenda down the pipe.
Absolutely. And set it loose in the Capitol building. I'd love to see a gored Harry Reid being flung across the rotunda.
This would certainly be a mammoth undertaking.
Clone the mammoth then release it in Tokyo as bait for Godzilla and a new movie.
Mammoth told me there’d be days like this.
Wow- that velociraptor is about to eat that girl with the huge knockers!
Hopefully “they” would distract and confuse the raptor into drooling...like me.
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