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Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years

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Re: Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years

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Post by derrida »

jimrandomh wrote: post #57
exch wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Playing the devil's advocate here but I believe humans do not need preserving. With 7 billion individuals and counting, it seems we're doing just fine. Regardless of how poor the living conditions are for many of us. For this particular species of insect however, having the last 24 remaining individuals of the entire species (presumably) be dependent on a single small shrubbery makes me think the effort put into this…

Humans are dying at a rate of 1.8 per second, and every human death is a tragedy of greater magnitude than the extinction of an insect species.

Saving an insect species is human life.

Re: Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years

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Post by sitkack »

astrodust wrote: post #39
fsniper wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even that, this means genocide for a species.

Nuclear weapons couldn't kill off even half of the rats on this planet.

Which is exactly why if we want to survive a nuclear war we need to start cross breeding with black rats and probably cockroaches.

Re: Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years

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Post by schiffern »

jimrandomh wrote: post #57
exch wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Playing the devil's advocate here but I believe humans do not need preserving. With 7 billion individuals and counting, it seems we're doing just fine. Regardless of how poor the living conditions are for many of us. For this particular species of insect however, having the last 24 remaining individuals of the entire species (presumably) be dependent on a single small shrubbery makes me think the effort put into this…

Humans are dying at a rate of 1.8 per second, and every human death is a tragedy of greater magnitude than the extinction of an insect species.

Destroying the results of a genetic program that's reached an optima after hundreds of millions of years seems like an incredible waste of biological knowledge.

When we can duplicate those results in an hour on a desktop PC, I'll agree with you. I'm not holding my breath.

Re: Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years

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Post by bluedanieru »

jimrandomh wrote: post #40

This seems to me like a case of empathy gone awry. All that work and effort to bring back a species of insects? There is no balance to preserve; they've been gone for almost a century. Those resources could be spent preserving human life.

What resources? Are you suggesting we should force entomologists to attend medical school or whatever you're on about instead? Are you sure social programs of that sort wouldn't decrease the quality of human life anyway? Have you given any of this any thought? Do you give anything any thought, or do you just drift through life as a collection of anthropomorphized knee-jerk reactions?

Re: Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years

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Post by y8af3 »

jimrandomh wrote: post #57
exch wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Playing the devil's advocate here but I believe humans do not need preserving. With 7 billion individuals and counting, it seems we're doing just fine. Regardless of how poor the living conditions are for many of us. For this particular species of insect however, having the last 24 remaining individuals of the entire species (presumably) be dependent on a single small shrubbery makes me think the effort put into this…

Humans are dying at a rate of 1.8 per second, and every human death is a tragedy of greater magnitude than the extinction of an insect species.

Why do you believe that ONE human life is more important than the extinction of an entire species?

Re: Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years

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Post by sitkack »

Another option which they probably explored was creating more habitat for them on Ball's Pyramid. Maybe somewhere far away from the original area or increase the cricket supply?

I do not envy being in that situation, where a mistake seals the fate of a pretty awesome bug.

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