I remember reading about this in 5th grade. 25 fucking years ago. I’ll believe it when I see it…
just like nuclear fusion, it was 10 years away 10 years ago, it’s 10 years away now and it will be 10 years away 10 years from now
But now we have AI! Both and many more problems will be solved any time now…
You know what AI needs the most long term? Nuclear fusion…
So we’re talking about de-extinction at a time when 70% of the planet’s biodiversity has been lost in the last 50 years?
That just means we can kill them all now. We’ll just bring em back later at a safer time. Problem sloved
Nothing bad will happen, as long as they spare no expense.
And everyone knows not to mess with the raptor fences
Your financial problems are not my concern!
It’s all fun and games until you’re being chased down in your Jeep by a dodo.
The lesson there is: Spare no expense on your IT budget!
This is cool, but are they really the beast we need to bring back? Where will they stay?
Who’s we?
They’ll probably stay in zoos or preserves.
I have an idea: Mammoth burgers
Worked in the docudrama “the Flintstones”
It’s amazing that people are still wasting resources on this kinda stuff while the planet burns.
Not everyone can work specifically on the one thing you find most pressing. Some people are hairdressers, some people work in a supermarket, some people are learning about genetics, some people are actors.
The platform you’re posting on isn’t essential for saving the planet, should it still exist? The servers it uses create pollution.
I don’t know, bringing back some of the species that this burning caused to go extinct - instead of the celebs mentioned in the article - would be nice.
Some degenerate gonna fuck that mammoth!
I really don’t wanna upvote this, but I can’t not
So, like totally the same feeling! 🤣🤣🤣
To be fair, I think research on mammoth cloning started a good while ago and, if scientific research is anything like a start-up (spitballing here, I have no clue), doing a massive reorientation mid-process ends up costing more in the long term.
Still MFW we’re cloning woolly mammoths on a boiling planet. Lol. Lmao, even.
That’s crazy cause I think it’ll be here tomorrow
I’ve said this a million times before, but if we’re playing gods anyway, can’t we make them dog sized also?
I would totally get one or maybe two.
Even dog sized they’d probably weigh like 200Kg. Mammoths be thicc
If they’re like their cousins you don’t want a pet that smart. Especially with a trunk. Good luck mammoth proofing your house.
Yeah you say that until you get a tusk in the crotch
They’ll be wearing stylish pool noodles on the tusks to minimize furniture and gonad damage.
Or we create them with softer tusks. Maybe that’s better, the. They’ll also be worthless to poachers.
I don’t want to live in a world that has wooly mammoths with floppy tusks. It just seems wrong.
What about that trunk though? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Everything outside of cities should be a nature reserve and we should clone extinct megafauna to put in zoos
Maybe in 100 years, with how underfunded research in vertical farming is.
Enjoy eating rocks, I guess?
Vertical farms to reduce wasteful agriculture practices
If we could just remove every parking lot and replace all major roads with trains, we would free up so much mammoth habitat.
But why? We have no iceage anymore.
Obviously for the local petting zoo
Plus, mammoth burgers
Does anyone else feel like this is irresponsible? Like, I get it, humans have been destroying the ecosystems of endangered and extinct animals for awhile now. But the world is actively warming up. And even if this is successful, how do we create enough of them to survive and procreate with defects etc. And where the hell will they live? I just have some concerns.
Nope, seems cool to me.
Nearly every species ever has gone extinct. What you see around you are those few species that made it to the present. So, yes, on one hand it doesn’t matter. On the other hand, a new population of elephants isn’t going to affect the world and we can appreciate them.
It is likely that we humans or our ancestors were responsible for the extinction of most of the megafauna around the world, so we would only be undoing our own damage I guess.
We’d first have to undo all the damage we did to the rest of the Earth which, even if we wanted, we couldn’t do.
As far as I understand, the whole “de-extinction” thing is just a huge flex on our part.
I hope whatever species that comes after us doesn’t bring us back
No! They did it! They blew it up!
And then the apes blew up their society too. How could this happen?
And then the birds took over and ruined their society.
And then the cows. And then…I don’t know, is that a slug, maybe?
Noooo!
This is hilarious.
#bringbackthesabretooth
Pass…
There are about 2000 wild tiger left, I found this article from 2011 saying that they might be extinct in the wild by 2030.
So there might be 2000 ecological niches for smilodon to fill in 5 years. We better hurry then.
I hope they have put a substantial amount of thought into potential problems that could arise. (Not that it will actually be like JP)
