[bitt]

see also

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/northern-tuskers-scientists-one-colossal-step-closer-de/

Northern Tuskers: Scientists One Colossal Step Closer to ‘De-Extinction’ of the Wooly Mammoth – But Why?

Paul Seran

[gov_bean_ counter]

Haven’t we seen this movie before???

[Carry_Okie]

“It will walk like a Woolly Mammoth, look like one, sound like one, but most importantly it will be able to inhabit the same ecosystem previously abandoned by the Mammoth’s extinction,” the company said.

That way, the "Royal We" won't need those nasty tribal people to manage disturbance. And said "We" will then be able to extract resources uncontested.

[Repeal The 17th]

“Pleistocene Park”

[VanShuyten]

I’d rather pay to de-extinct mammoths than fund $1 million homosexual s&m parties.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Let me guess; they will be classified as an “endangered species,” and people will lose their property rights wherever they are released.

[Sacajaweau]

And all the diseases they may possess. Sorry...dangerous.

[CIB-173RDABN]

They think the movie JURASSIC PARK was an instruction manual but evidently did not stay to see the end. /s

As someone else ask “WHY?”

[READINABLUESTATE]

Just because we can doesn’t mean we should.

[Lion Den Dan]

The woolly booger went extinct for a reason. We need the varmint to return like we need 4 mor years of Joe Bidenbama.

[simpson96]

Just what the world needs.... /sarc

[Bob434]

awesome! Wooly Mammoth burgers are delicious!

[null and void]

Big deal. Bring back the Republican elephant.

[G Larry]

Could they get Reagan spun back up for 2028?

[pierrem15]

Just think what the safari and taxidermy fees would be. :-)

[gundog]

[Blood of Tyrants]

Global warming killed the woolly mammoth but allowed humans to thrive on a much larger area.

[EnderWiggin1970]

I recall reading about efforts to bring back the mammoth while I was in high school back in the 80's. That's how long this sort of thing has been floating around.

One problem the journalists don't address is that it's not enough to find a strand of partly decayed DNA and repair it with sections of elephant DNA or their best guesses. You then need proteins (basically cellular machinery) that are precisely matched up to execute the DNA blueprint.

Sticking mammoth DNA into an elephant cell without also modifying the proteins will be like walking into a Corvette factory with the blueprints for a Camaro, trying to get the latter built. Without modification of the equipment along the assembly line such a task will prove impossible, even if the vehicles share many similarities.

[jagusafr]

That you can does not mean you may. That you may does not mean you should.

What justifies this manipulation?

[Flatus I. Maximus]

> “It will walk like a Woolly Mammoth, look like one, sound like one,

But will it *taste* like one?