Posted on 12/06/2011 12:40:09 PM PST by Fractal Trader
Stay out of Cuyahoga County.
I’m in Summit, but Cuyahoga is just a few blocks away. Where did these things come from? I didn’t see them all Summer, but now that the heat is on, they’re showing up.
One hit my windshield, and it was a hellova mess. Guess I’ll stay down here in the conservative part of the state.
Do you think the Elephant, the pride of the GOP is a purposeless beastie? The Mammoth is it’s older bro with a wooly coat so it can move lumber in Alaska as well as the tropics.
How do you know it can be trained? The people of India have spent 1000s of years training elephants. African elephants, not so much. How do we know if Wooly Mamouths can be trained at all?
Think of the tremendous cost that this project would entail,if it is successful. Why? We have bulldozers and other moving machines that can move anything in Alaska that we need moved.
It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature.
Even the scientist who cloned Dolly says that it is not practical to clone animals. Hundreds of attempts had to be abandoned because of deformaties, and even the ones that were successful had to be put down early because they aged at a rapid rate.
It’s hard and expensive to move bulldozers to Alaska, never mind parts for repairs etc. Move a mating couple of wooly beasties up there and you don’t need to move anymore.
How do you know the wooly mammoth wasn’t trained? Somebody had to help Fred Flinstone. The people of India are not the only ones with a history of training elephants and Hannibal may have been using African elephants since he was from north Africa. It has been over 30 years since I took vertebrate zoology but my prof for the course was a paleozoologist and we had many conversations about the mammoth....I’ve been fascinated by elephants, old style and new since early childhood when I had my first ride on one.
Wow. Well, I may be in the minority here, but I think a *living* Woolly Mammoth would be the coolest thing ever!!!!
But forget about trying to train it as anything. The bleeding hearts will never allow that. Heck, they probably wouldn’t even want to see it in a zoo — only a special high-$$$$ sanctuary. And they probably wouldn’t even allow visitors in to see it because it would upset the mammoth. Sheesh!
“Even the elephant was used to cross the Alps by Hannibal”
Apparently those were a small North African variety that no longer exists.
But, just think of the compost pile posibilities!Take DNA from the clone(s), and then slice into that an elephant Y chromosome, and use that second generation....
Wonder if they would eat salt cedar or kudzu?
Whatever else you may do, do NOT resuscitate.
Yes. Wait till the enviros free them.
Whoops.
imagine the size of the bucket of slaw...
On a side note I'm kinda glad they went extinct. 'Mammoth Bill Cody' doesn't have the same ring to it as Buffalo Bill Cody ;-)
Just because they supposedly ‘can’ doesn’t mean they should. Didn’t work out so well for Dr. Moreau.
p.s. I have ‘Jeepster’ on my Ipod.
I have been predicting this turn of events for at least five years.
No doubt we will have herds of woolies on the Great Plains in our future.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Actually, I think it would be fascinating to see a real live woolly mammoth. Clone away! It’s the next best thing to a time machine. Bring the past here to us, rather than travelling back into it. What a thrill. A new form of exploration of the past.
Now dinosaurs, not so much .......
When I think of the money that is going to be spent on this impractical research, most of it probably coming from the taxpayers in one way or another, I wish everyone would curb their enthusiasm for making fantasies real.
Head mounts in the den. You are going to need a bigger den:)
I thought you were going to ask me to donate some DNA for this worthy project Mr Ranch?
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