Is this a company and not a research lab doing this? What's the economic imperative for funding this?
They're a foundation working on "de extinction". They want to hatch dodos.
I'm holding out hope we can get the moa birds back in my lifetime.
Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens
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#13This article is so strange. It is written by the company, but written in a way that an outsider would write. > Colossal has not released its hatch rate for the 26 chickens, which limits direct comparison to prior shell-free systems. The announcement was also made without an accompanying peer-reviewed paper or publicly released dataset, meaning independent scientists have not yet been able to evaluate the underlying m…
It says at the bottom:
> This story is based on original reporting by Christina Larson for National Geographic. Read the full feature on National Geographic
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/artificia...
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#14This article is so strange. It is written by the company, but written in a way that an outsider would write. > Colossal has not released its hatch rate for the 26 chickens, which limits direct comparison to prior shell-free systems. The announcement was also made without an accompanying peer-reviewed paper or publicly released dataset, meaning independent scientists have not yet been able to evaluate the underlying m…
Also, that is the kind of corporate PR articles that are made to be quasi copy/pasted by journalists.
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They're a foundation working on "de extinction". They want to hatch dodos.
Yes, yes. Dodos. The endgame of this is Dodos.
Yes, first they'll focus on normal dodos. Then, they'll try very large Dodos. After that, very, very ancient dodos. Followed by island dodos. Then they might set up a whole island that people can visit, full of all kinds of dodos. They'll do tours with self driving cars so people can see all the dodos from a safe distance.
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#16Is this a company and not a research lab doing this? What's the economic imperative for funding this?
A velociraptor skeleton is worth around $10 million. Hatch a few dozen per year and you’re making great money.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, yes. Dodos. The endgame of this is Dodos.
Yes, first they'll focus on normal dodos. Then, they'll try very large Dodos. After that, very, very ancient dodos. Followed by island dodos. Then they might set up a whole island that people can visit, full of all kinds of dodos. They'll do tours with self driving cars so people can see all the dodos from a safe distance.
Scientific consensus is that dodos cannot open doors so it’ll be very safe as long as visitors stay in their cars.
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#19I've just started listening to the book "Brave new world" (no spoilers please!) and this is literally how the book begins (but with humans) - what could possibly go wrong!
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Yes, yes. Dodos. The endgame of this is Dodos.
Yes, first they'll focus on normal dodos. Then, they'll try very large Dodos. After that, very, very ancient dodos. Followed by island dodos. Then they might set up a whole island that people can visit, full of all kinds of dodos. They'll do tours with self driving cars so people can see all the dodos from a safe distance.
They shall spare no expense.