Can you imagine how much certain people would pay to shoot one of those things so they could stand next to the carcass for a picture? And the ivory. People would be offing them for trophies and tusks as fast as we could breed them. I think all in all, mammoths would probably be happier if we left them extinct.
I thought that was already true. All they needed was DNA, and that wasn't too hard to find, what with all the thawing over the last few decades slowly revealing the frozen bodies. I watched one show where they cut an entire mammoth out of the tundra and slowly thawed it. Definitely some DNA in that carcass. Once they had DNA, it's a relatively simple process to insert strands of it into an elephant embryo, and viola: mammoths are back. I expected one to be born a few years ago, actually...so I'm wondering what the hold-up was. I know several other species are being considered too, like some giant cattle (I forget what they were called) they used to have in Europe until it went extinct a century or so ago. The things are massive, and would produce much more meat and such than ordinary cattle. Would I eat one? Definitely lol...It's not like it's contagious or something. I wonder what mammoth tastes like...mmmmmm, mammoth.
I just noticed the link in the OP. The carcass they mention in the story is probably the same one I mentioned above.
I want a mammoth! The first thing I'd do is train it to stomp the shit out of rimmer. Now that is how you make something go extinct.
Maybe we can clone George W. Bush, but this time we could give him a brain. Nah, he's too funny with the brain he has...when he isn't invading countries and such, that is. How about a million Sarah Palin's? Nah, with all that condescending nasal-resonant commentary they'd spew-out their collective mouths the suicide rate would jump exponentially.
Coincidentally, none of them would want to actually complete the original's term as Governor. "Too hard!", and whatnot.
How's all that "thawing" working out for you? LOL. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/03/1...-in-brutal-winter-unable-to/?intcmp=obnetwork
Something else that may interest you, clembo, as I know you're a lot like me, in that we both share a common interest in learning: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...pecies-cloning-deextinction-genetics-science/ One thing I know about "cloning", as it's currently being utilized, is that whatever is produced is a hybrid of what is being cloned, as they currently need a surrogate (female) for birth.
Imagine cloning him ? Hell on Earth. Imagine a tornado that wipes 'em all out? Hell on Earth...because they'd just clone more of him.
...then again, I'd probably take-up skeet-shooting... ...PULL!... Dang it, winged-'im. OK kids, grab your sticks and finish it off before it skitters away. Yeah...I guess it does have it's "plus"-side.
