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Posted By socialexpert 1 year, 1 month ago in Science & TechnologyYou don ’t know this, but your life is empty and missing something important. You need a woolly mammoth in the living room, and on a leash to take shopping. There will be a range of sizes to choose from, mammoths to order from miniatures for condos to 17 ft tall behemoths that will live on your ranch.
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CRYMTYPHON1 year, 1 month ago
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I agree, - and then I don't.
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I desperately would love to see a mammoth, and a saber-tooth lion, and a dire-wolf, and a Short-Faced North American Bear (largest carnivorous mammal known) and a cave sloth.
Here is what my mind says:
1) Elephants are intelligent; with brains twice the size of a human's. It would not be moral to mess with them.
2) But people hunt and eat them and put them in chains and zoos anyway.
3) But that does not justify doing something else wrong.
4) But I want to see these extinct animals.
instructions: go to 1, proceed to 4; at 4 return to 1.
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Tangent0011 year, 1 month ago
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If you're gonna go for it, go for it!
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Pot-bellied pygmy mammoths! How's THAT for the hot new pet? Admittedly, a pygmy mammoth would still be about the size of a Volkswagen...
Anyway, it's seems appropriate that since human hunting likely wiped out the last of the North American mammoths about 11,000 years ago, we should be the ones to bring them back.-
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CRYMTYPHON1 year, 1 month ago
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Human involvement in the strange disapearance of the North American mega-fauna is still debatable.
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It wasn't just mammoths.
Possible some kind of comet-like explosion occurred (an ice and rock ball that did not leave a crater behind, - the kind that supposedly happened in Siberia a century ago ).
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lvrofwolves1 year, 1 month ago
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We have enough problems protecting the elephants we have now, from greedy poachers and trophy hunters, this is not the same land or world mammoths left (were driven away from)we would turn them into something they were never meant to be, manipulating. Just because you can do something doesn't always mean you should.
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As exciting and interesting as it would be, it's a NO-
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beavith11 year, 1 month ago
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check out
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene_Park
bring 'em back and plop them in the preserves.
i wish that i could recall where i saw it, but the hurdles to make/recreate mammoths are (wait for it....) mammoth. : -)
its one thing to collect the DNA for ID purposes, but the big one is assembling a functional cell from repaired DNA. plus elephants grow so darn slowly. its a project for the centuries.-
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lvrofwolves1 year, 1 month ago
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Even the preserves need to be patrolled and protected by men carrying machine guns, poachers go into those reserves.
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that show must have been on discovery channel or something like that, I remember seeing it too, but it was awhile ago Can't remember how many generations it would take to have the DNA closest to a mammoth, it wasn't first generation, not even 2nd I don't think..but who knows, science always coming up with stuff.........-
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beavith11 year, 1 month ago
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yeah. they have to back cross the 'elephant' out to leave just mammoth. a couple generations, but that means they'd also need a breeding population of individuals to start with. elephants take- what?- twenty years to get to breeding age? that or bring on the clones.
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it sure would be neat.
along with woolly rhinoceri, and eohippus.
very cool.
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