Genetic secrets from Tassie tiger (new talk on bringing extinct thylacine back to life)

BBC News ^ | Jonathan Amos

[pcottraux]

That would be dragonblustar.

[FreeManWhoCan]

Thanks for the story presidio9! Hey guys! Crypto ping!

[presidio9]

This thread has footage of the last captive thylacine in the Hobart Zoo. However, the airheaded author of the article blames the extinction on white people, saying the hunter-gatherer aborigines never had a problem with them. This is typical wishful thinking BS, as the aborigines brought their dogs with them when they came to Australia 40,000 years ago. Some of those dogs went ferrel and became dingos. The dingo took the place of a wolf in Australia, formerly occupied by the thylacine. When white men started to settle Australia in the 1780's, after tens of thousands of years of dingos, all the shite men did was become the final staw. That's why the thylacine, which had existed for millions of years had so little genetic diversity at the end.

[presidio9]

Convergent Intelligent Design.

Thanks for my new favorite term. Another example of CID would be John Kerry and the Sleestacks.

[sionnsar]

Another example of CID would be John Kerry and the Sleestacks.

Intelligent design????

Oh. I see. Something like Ogden Nash:

God in his wisdom made the fly
and then forgot to tell us why

[presidio9]

Exactly. The malaria virus is also a product of Intelligent Design.

[dragonblustar]

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[SERKIT]

Let’s clone Ronaldus Magnus and reinvent the Republican Party. Lord knows we need it in Illinois.

[dragonblustar]

That is one creepy looking critter.

[presidio9]

Let’s clone Ronaldus Magnus and reinvent the Republican Party.

Genetics don't make the man. The only one of his children worth a damn is adopted.

[SERKIT]

Treu. I was going along the lines of a non-evil version of “Boys from Brazil”.

[sionnsar]

Amen.

[presidio9]

I was watching a program about horses recently, and a successful breeder was arguing that cloning Secretariat right now probably wouldn’t be worth the cost, because a lot more went into making a great racehorse than just the genes. Personally, I have no idea how he could know this. And if they do decide to clone secretariat, tell me where to go to place my bet on him. But that’s what he said.

[Erasmus]

And they'd better build the cages ten times stronger than they think they'll need.

≤}B^)

[Zionist Conspirator]

Thanks for the ping!

[NellieMae]

Maybe it's a relative to the chupacabra.

[JoeProBono]

Thylacine: footage of the last Tasmanian Tiger / Wolf 1933

[djf]

It would not be surprising if some survived.

The ares that were considered it’s original habitat are some of the most remote, inaccessible, god-awful places on Earth.

Mangrove swamps, jungles where the sunlight simply never even hits the ground, that sort of stuff.

[djf]

This one is pretty convincing, but it needs to be slowed down and photo enhanced.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy0wfGoHD88&feature=related

[TribalPrincess2U]

I was thinking the same thing. Sure resembles it.