What’s the line from Jurassic Park? “They were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should”
If you could make jurassic park with actual zoo architecture and technology that would be pretty cool.
Entrepreneur plans to resurrect woolly mammoths
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
But we all want Jurassic Park though. And we likely will get it in the next few decades, just like we will likely also get Westworld park full of virtual beings that you can seduce (and we probably have something near equivalent in VR now.)
I really doubt people want to seduce sexbots in a public park. If we get realistic west world sexbots, expect them to follow the business model of hookers.
>I really doubt people want to seduce sexbots in a public park
Have you watched the show? It's "public", but it's so huge that the guest concentration closer to rural town than disney world.
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#13WHGs next.
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#14This sounds more like dog breeding with elephants and gene editing than Jurassic Park. They are trying to make a cold weather adapted elephant
I suppose that begins to ask the question of what it means to be a wooly mammoth.
If it fills the ecological niche of an , and it looks like and has many of the same genes as an , is it not an ?
There's a bit of sci-fi fun in Neal Stephenson's wonderful "Seveneves"[0] where people are trying to re-populate the earth with animals after a planet-wide extinction event. They originally tried to make exactly the same wolves and lynx and rabbits and so on, but eventually realized they could just make "big pack dog animal" and "stalking cat animal" to fill the niches and let evolution do the fine tuning for them.
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#15For the purpose of climate change I believe it would be enough to breed elephants that adapt well to could climates and populate the area with them.
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#16I remember reading a cryptozoological theory that there could still be some mammoths left, hidden in the vastness of Siberia. Absurd, obviously, but I always thought you could make a great film about a ragtag crew searching for the last remaining mammoth tribe in the wilderness.
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#17I think this is considerably more difficult than they think, genomes are more than just throwing genes together. It’s a finely tuned symphony made by evolution, epigenetic silencing and signaling, gene position. I suspect it doesn’t work at all but if they got something it would be more like the centaurs in Fallout. I also think there are ethical questions whether that baby “mammoth” being born would ask to be created in that failed way.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
I really doubt people want to seduce sexbots in a public park. If we get realistic west world sexbots, expect them to follow the business model of hookers.
>I really doubt people want to seduce sexbots in a public park Have you watched the show? It's "public", but it's so huge that the guest concentration closer to rural town than disney world.
Oh ok, that's not weird then.
Re: Entrepreneur plans to resurrect woolly mammoths
#19Can the modern Arctic environment really support herds of new mammoths? I know they used to roam the tundra 5,000 years ago, but they've been absent since. Wouldn't their reappearance displace the creatures that have taken their place in the ecosystem? Perhaps moose and arctic ox would suffer a decline?
It seems really reckless to me to resurrect long dead creatures and to call that "healing the earth". I don't think these people have the systems in place to model the ecosystem accurately enough to know whether introducing a new hybrid into the environment would be beneficial for any creature on Earth (except themselves of course ... I'm sure they'll have a great Instagram post about it).
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#20Eh, it's hard for me to not be cynical about this given the number of times I've heard this exact headline throughout my life. When I was a little kid I saw on a TV program that "these scientists are working on bring back wooly mammoths and experts agree that we could see living wooly mammoths in the next 3 years". > Can mammoths really reverse climate change? > Colossal say that they want to 'rewild extinct species…
> > It is argued that the giant herbivores such as mammoths maintained these open grasslands by keeping encroaching forests at bay, and as a result helped cool the planet.
> That seems like pure nonsense and perhaps a way to market their goofy experiment to gullible journalists.
The effect of mammoths can be true AND it can be "a way to market their goofy experiment to gullible journalists". We've seen significant changes caused by the near extinction of the American Bison for instance.