I think this is doable. It will take time, however they have an increasing number of frozen mammoths, and even more mammoth tusks (I do not know if the tusk has a 'root' as a tooth does. By sequencing all these sources they have a good shot at crafting the full genome. As a mammal, the closely related species of elephant they have found should be able to provide viable eggs that can be renucleated with mammoth DNA based starters with the correct initiators to render them viable. They have the ability to make the eggs in the lab, fertilize them and see how they progress through numbers of divisions. Once they reach that point, they can try implantation, or even artificial wombs that has been done for mice - will it scale?
Their timeline of ~~6 years also seems viable, and it may be faster or slower.
Man has caused many extinctions, they say mammoths are one of them - perhaps others we extincted can be saved as well, if suitable source material can be found, such as earlier races of man that might be as good or better than man?
I am amazed that the bio establishment does/has not do/done/tried this - leaving it to entrepreneurs?
Entrepreneur plans to resurrect woolly mammoths
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Re: Entrepreneur plans to resurrect woolly mammoths
#62Because we can definitely fix things better than evolution can.
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#63Because we can definitely fix things better than evolution can.
Uh, mammoths are extinct because of prehistoric human overhunting. Say we broke this particular issue.
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#64What’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”
Why do the dinosaurs always escape in Jurassic Park? Is it because the mathematics of chaos theory dictate that life always finds a way? Or is it because nobody pays to see a movie where a couple of brats go on an uneventful vacation to a dinosaur zoo? It's definitely the latter, but through the power of repetition people started to believe it was the former.
It's because the scriptwriters tried selling a script where nothing much happened, and didn't even get past the receptionist.
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#65> Is returning mammoths to the wild a viable solution to climate change?
No. I can say this unequivocally. What a stupid question.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
The most reckless part is resurrecting highly intelligent social creatures. The problem becomes apparent if we look at African elephants - if the matriarch is killed before passing on her knowledge, the herd often dies or disbands. Now imagine just popping a small group of mammoths into existence who never roamed the Arctic tundra and expect them to just "know" how to mammoth. It takes many generations to achieve tha…
Definitely brings up images of aliens cloning humans after we've gone extinct, then placing us in groups with food and hoping they recreate human civilization. I think the result would be more sad and pathetic than Lord Of The Flies. That said, presumably they'd rear the baby mammoths with elephants and at least develop social skills, even if they can't develop environmental skills; and then support the animals as th…
Ya reminds of the (awesome but at the same time horrific) post apocalyptic film Threads: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0090163/?fc=2&ft=29&fm=1
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#67What’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”
Why do the dinosaurs always escape in Jurassic Park? Is it because the mathematics of chaos theory dictate that life always finds a way? Or is it because nobody pays to see a movie where a couple of brats go on an uneventful vacation to a dinosaur zoo? It's definitely the latter, but through the power of repetition people started to believe it was the former.
Isn't it almost always that the safeguards in place are poor? Either poorly maintained or the caretakers don't care at all.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
>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.
I watched the original, which was awesome. Newer one didn't appeal to me. It's a cute idea but that would be stupidly expensive. It would be difficult to compete with the nearby hotel that includes 10 robo-whores complementary with each night at 1/100th of the price; or a giga-chad sex machine that you can just purchase for home use. For sex, or, actually, just as a worker to do real labor because that's a hugely val…
I think you've summed up the biggest immersion breaker in that program for me. At some point a character mentions a cost of $40,000/day, which seems like a huge amount until you look at how much staff is needed to keep the park running (including apparently an entire private army), and the amount of damage done on a daily basis which then needs fixing.
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#69Gee, what could possibly go wrong?
Given our long string of eco system manipulation success stories I mean...
And this time we're not even limited to existing species, exciting times indeed.