Recreating, the Mammoth

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Maphusio

Sonny, I Watched the Vault Bein' Built!
Believe it or not, modern science looks to be rapidly approaching the decision to bring back an extinct species. Many of you may recall the Wooley Mammoth disappeared after the mass extinction event that nearly wiped out all life on earth, including humans.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/science/20mammoth.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin

I think we will see this plan bear fruit provided there is no intervention from the various intolerant organizations and political bodies.

How interesting it would be to bring back species that have long since been extinct? Jurassic Park of course ventured down this path but what if we are talking a smaller scale?

The science and technology have caught up with one another and now we have the potential to create life. Many would argue that's playing God but, so would any other life altering tool such as antibiotics.

What say you NMA? Yay or Nay? What else should we bring back? The Sabertooth Tiger also was destroyed in that cataclysmic event.
 
"Restoring" races which humans have destroyed seems like a good idea (but will also sent the wrong message to whalehunters and so one). I do however not see the gain and usefulness of a mammoth in modern world. a lot of resources would be needed to support this operation and the benefit seems to be history & groupsocialogy
 
Recreating a Mammoth is incredible, but I'm really waiting for the day that we'll recreate an Austrolopithecus, or an Neandertal. THAT probably would be incredible
 
I will support this idea if the military takes over the project and genetically engineers it to be a rabid mammoth killing machine.

Could you imagine setting an armored mammoth loose in Iraq? I would shit my pants if I saw that thing charging me. Even more so for the hadjis as many of them probably have no idea what a mammoth is :lol:


Anyways yeah sure 10 million honestly is not a lot of money for something on this scale. So no real complaints here from me.
 
The problem with restoring or bringing in a new species is not knowing how the environment will react to it.

They had this problem when some dude was modifying plants through selective breading to have natural pesticides. As a result it started killing off the monarch butterfly.

In Short, fucking with nature may result in a ecological imbalance.
 
They can't do it... the Mamoth isn't bread for this kind of climate. it's too friggin' hot. You put in antarctica, great, there is nothing down there to sustain it for food. you put it in Greenland, maybe, but then they have a summet time and the likelyhood of it roasting to death is significan'tly less but still there.
 
Why not just shave it?

Or better, yet. Get hold of an elephant, just say you shaved it and call it a mammoth.
Would save a ton of money.
 
Personally i think that siberia would fit well for the mammoth. Thing is mammoths DO need some kind of summer to get more fat for the winter...but not too hot summers ot theyll die.

Of course one could argue why waste time with mammoths and why not start making x-men ? :twisted:
 
alec says: "Yay!"

I'm totally pro. Let them re-create the Mammoth. And the Sabretooth Tiger. And the Squid People.

I see no harm in this. It's educational.
 
Bal-Sagoth said:
Ravager69 said:
Well, uh, what's the *point* of ressurecting mammoths? To have a few laughs? Really, this is waste of time and money, because benefits would be little.

Also, mulaalia, why the fuck you're throwing some nationalist's words on a topic regarding *mammoths*? Are you serious?
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I am done arguing with him about it on this thread, I figured at best if it continues a mod will take care of it.

I was also wondering the point of all this, I assumed it had something to do with scientist wanting to better study how they acted in the environment and what not.

It really does seem like a waste tho.
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If you can successfully ressurect one such specie you can maybe ressirect others that humanity have driven to exitinosion? To try to fix the errors of mankind is not a waste in my opinion anyway.

Also to have one of those mammuths stuffed and placed above the fireplace would be a totaly new type of awesome.
 
Loxley said:
Also to have one of those mammuths stuffed and placed above the fireplace would be a totaly new type of awesome.
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Mammoth safari! Oh man it would be wicked if they could get this cloning thing to down an efficient level and create an island where you could hunt once extinct animals.
 
Bal-Sagoth said:
Loxley said:
Also to have one of those mammuths stuffed and placed above the fireplace would be a totaly new type of awesome.
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Mammoth safari! Oh man it would be wicked if they could get this cloning thing to down an efficient level and create an island where you could hunt once extinct animals.
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Those ideas always go wrong, and end up with the hunter becoming the hunted.

That being said, anyone in this day and age that goes out to hunt a herbivore and is killed by it deserves to be.
 
I feel Jurassic Park becoming truth.

Ok, just kidding. I think it is kind of impossible for now to revive a dinosaur, since their fossils have little or no DNA because they're very old. Whatever, hunting extinct animals would be fun for sure, but if someone do this someday, I hope this person get prepared to have greenpeace running after him with torchs and rocket launchers
 
Animal rights activists might be very angry too, and organize marches and even start riots. and destroy the cloning companys property.


Freaking hippies!! I want to be able to kill innocent little mammoths with my .50 cal rifle in an secluded island . Is it too much to ask ?! :P
 
radiatedheinz said:
I feel Jurassic Park becoming truth.

Ok, just kidding. I think it is kind of impossible for now to revive a dinosaur, since their fossils have little or no DNA because they're very old. Whatever, hunting extinct animals would be fun for sure, but if someone do this someday, I hope this person get prepared to have greenpeace running after him with torchs and rocket launchers
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If I had it my way the Greenpeace and PETA fags would be the ones hunted on the island :P

I would settle for a mammoth tho.
 
Bal-Sagoth said:
Loxley said:
Also to have one of those mammuths stuffed and placed above the fireplace would be a totaly new type of awesome.
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Mammoth safari! Oh man it would be wicked if they could get this cloning thing to down an efficient level and create an island where you could hunt once extinct animals.
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An island? We will just use The Island. The country I mean. Think of it. It has the perfect temperature, a broken economy and lots of open land. We get to hunt for the trophie of trophies and they get lots of money. It is a win win situation. And what would they complain about. That we kill of an allready extinct species? Bah if it becomes a problem we will just bring it back again then.
 
mulaalia said:
As for mammoths they should stay dead,they are one of many losers in the evolutionary race.
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If you read my post you would understand that the Mammoths were killed off by a mass extinction event thousands of years ago. This very same event killed many species off and we were almost on that list.

To our knowledge this is why all humans (we've tested) can be traced back via their DNA to a group of several thousand Africans.

So in short, many species should be alive today if it were not for the meteorite impact and resulting nuclear winter.

radiatedheinz said:
I feel Jurassic Park becoming truth.

Ok, just kidding. I think it is kind of impossible for now to revive a dinosaur, since their fossils have little or no DNA because they're very old. Whatever, hunting extinct animals would be fun for sure, but if someone do this someday, I hope this person get prepared to have greenpeace running after him with torchs and rocket launchers
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Mammoths are not dinosaurs. They are only 10,000 years old. We have perfect specimens of their DNA that has been preserved/encased in ice and snow. If you read the article and do a little research, you will see that we are in the possession of hair, bone and even skin samples.

Edit: NY times article on the social political issues and practicality involved with this.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/opinion/23sun3-3.html
 
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