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I did not read the article but the title of this post begs the question “Why?”. While I can understand the value of entertainment , I think it would be better to have robotic replicas of dinos rather than the real ones. Just my 2 cents.
I remember in the 90s, when they cloned Polly (or Molly? I don’t remember), people predicted crazy future where we keep cloning animals and one day maybe humans. I don’t hear much about cloning recently. What happened?
The sheep was named Dolly, after Dolly Parton, because the cell used for cloning was taken from a mammary gland. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_(sheep)
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Sounds like you didn't read the article. Hendrik Poinar, the director of the McMaster Ancient DNA Centre, said "Will we ever find a dinosaur that has viable DNA? I’ve learned to never say never." And then a footnote associated with that statement said "Last March, researchers founHed evidence of preserved cartilage cells and DNA in a 75-million-year-old baby dinosaur fossil."
Your other points make sense, but only to a degree. Sure, dinosaurs-as-a-whole probably wouldn't do too well naturally in our environment, but how sure can we be that a few species wouldn't be able to survive? And isn't it plausible that an artificial habitat could be constructed that could allow even more to survive? After all, we have ways to keep pretty much any animals (including humans) alive in artificial habitats that are kept in environments the animals wouldn't normally survive in (see: zoos, aquariums, space stations).
The dinosaurs lived in an incomprehensibly different world. From the food and nutrition to the very air they were breathing which we only have vague ideas about. That means the first several generations at the very least would suffer and die from various nutrition, toxicity and environment issues. Even after all that got figured out the dinosaurs would likely have be confined to some small controlled environment righ…
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Pretty unlikely that we would be able to find a complete DNA of a single species of dinosaur. More likely we would have to patch it together and while we're at it might as well modify it allow them to survive under current conditions. Just speaking hypothetically here but that seems like the more probable scenario.
It seems like more than an issue of DNA to create a 50 ton dinosaur that could survive in a modern climate. Dinosaurs were able to reach their sizes precisely because of the oxygen-rich environment, not just their DNA.
What about not bringing back dinosaurs but changing the dna of say a chicken to resemble that what we'd consider to be a dinosaur without it actually being any historically known dinosaur?
That's also when we can debug consciousness, given that our simulation is accurate enough. I have no idea how many years we'll have to wait. Maybe 50 years?
The dinosaurs lived in an incomprehensibly different world. From the food and nutrition to the very air they were breathing which we only have vague ideas about. That means the first several generations at the very least would suffer and die from various nutrition, toxicity and environment issues. Even after all that got figured out the dinosaurs would likely have be confined to some small controlled environment righ…
The dinosaurs lived in an incomprehensibly different world. From the food and nutrition to the very air they were breathing which we only have vague ideas about. That means the first several generations at the very least would suffer and die from various nutrition, toxicity and environment issues. Even after all that got figured out the dinosaurs would likely have be confined to some small controlled environment righ…
birds are dinosaurs. I’m not sure how much they evolved from their ancestors but I don’t think it’s much. If I were to guess Dinosaurs will live fine on the current earth.
Bringing back dinosaurs is a lot like using regular expressions: Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll bring back dinosaurs." Now they have two problems.
Suddenly, I am very curious about what problem could possibly inspire bringing back dinosaurs as a potential solution...