#bringbackthesabretooth
Pass…
There are about 2000 wild tiger left, I found this article from 2011 saying that they might be extinct in the wild by 2030.
So there might be 2000 ecological niches for smilodon to fill in 5 years. We better hurry then.
Everything outside of cities should be a nature reserve and we should clone extinct megafauna to put in zoos
Enjoy eating rocks, I guess?
Vertical farms to reduce wasteful agriculture practices
Maybe in 100 years, with how underfunded research in vertical farming is.
If we could just remove every parking lot and replace all major roads with trains, we would free up so much mammoth habitat.
I’ve said this a million times before, but if we’re playing gods anyway, can’t we make them dog sized also?
I would totally get one or maybe two.
If they’re like their cousins you don’t want a pet that smart. Especially with a trunk. Good luck mammoth proofing your house.
Even dog sized they’d probably weigh like 200Kg. Mammoths be thicc
Yeah you say that until you get a tusk in the crotch
They’ll be wearing stylish pool noodles on the tusks to minimize furniture and gonad damage.
Or we create them with softer tusks. Maybe that’s better, the. They’ll also be worthless to poachers.
I don’t want to live in a world that has wooly mammoths with floppy tusks. It just seems wrong.
What about that trunk though? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I hope whatever species that comes after us doesn’t bring us back
No! They did it! They blew it up!
And then the apes blew up their society too. How could this happen?
And then the birds took over and ruined their society.
And then the cows. And then…I don’t know, is that a slug, maybe?
Noooo!
This is hilarious.
So we’re talking about de-extinction at a time when 70% of the planet’s biodiversity has been lost in the last 50 years?
That just means we can kill them all now. We’ll just bring em back later at a safer time. Problem sloved
“We have no idea what happens next.”
Scientists: we know almost exactly what will happen.
This is cool, but are they really the beast we need to bring back? Where will they stay?
Who’s we?
They’ll probably stay in zoos or preserves.
Welcome to 1000 years ago park! 🏞️ We got 🐘 🦥 but bigger!
Poachers. Poachers are next.
We bringing poachers to extinction?
- Step 1: acquire genetic material
- Step 2: supplement material with closely related extant species <- We are here
- Step 3: Get an egg cell with your Frankenstein-DNA to survive and divide
- Step 4: Produce a healthy baby
- Step 5: Get a small population in a Zoo/Park
- Step 6: have a permanent wild population in a specific area
- Step 7: have enough of those areas to declare repopulation a success
Is fixating on the mammoths here first-world centrism? The article mentions 4 other species that have way better chances. Also, given how far we are from actual wild mammoths, that “it can solve climate change” argument is just wrong the way it’s been presented.
It’s mostly people-with-money-centric.
It’s amazing that people are still wasting resources on this kinda stuff while the planet burns.
I don’t know, bringing back some of the species that this burning caused to go extinct - instead of the celebs mentioned in the article - would be nice.
Not everyone can work specifically on the one thing you find most pressing. Some people are hairdressers, some people work in a supermarket, some people are learning about genetics, some people are actors.
The platform you’re posting on isn’t essential for saving the planet, should it still exist? The servers it uses create pollution.
Some degenerate gonna fuck that mammoth!
I really don’t wanna upvote this, but I can’t not
So, like totally the same feeling! 🤣🤣🤣
To be fair, I think research on mammoth cloning started a good while ago and, if scientific research is anything like a start-up (spitballing here, I have no clue), doing a massive reorientation mid-process ends up costing more in the long term.
Still MFW we’re cloning woolly mammoths on a boiling planet. Lol. Lmao, even.
I remember reading about this in 5th grade. 25 fucking years ago. I’ll believe it when I see it…
just like nuclear fusion, it was 10 years away 10 years ago, it’s 10 years away now and it will be 10 years away 10 years from now
What’s happening with the fusion then?
But now we have AI! Both and many more problems will be solved any time now…
You know what AI needs the most long term? Nuclear fusion…
Obligatory https://youtube.com/watch?v=_oNgyUAEv0Q
“Your Scientists Were So Preoccupied With Whether Or Not They Could, They Didn’t Stop To Think If They Should”
“Life, uh, finds a way.”
Hope they pay their IT guy well.
That’s crazy cause I think it’ll be here tomorrow
