I don't know, the dodo was appearently fowl tasting.
A single phrase renders Christianity a delusional cultObviously you can't reintroduce these species to the wild, but absolutely we should clone extinct animals if we ever get the resources to do that. Aside from the Rule of Cool I think it's important that we help preserve the awesome kinds of life on Earth, what with us being the only ones who can.
Damn Bears aren't going to step up to the plate. THEY don't have the balls to teabag mother nature like we do!
And let us pray that come it may (As come it will for a' that)Yes, we probably should clone extinct animals, but for obvious reason (invasive species), we can't release them into nature.
If you want any of my avatars, just Pm me I'd truly appreciate any avatar of a reptile sleeping in a Nice Hat Read Elmer Kelton booksI fully support cloning terror birds
. Just because I think it would make life more interesting.
We should bring back the Hyracotherium
. They were like fox-sized horses. Adorable!
I'm not really sure. Cloning them for research abilities would be nice to increase our understanding of evolution, but then you've got unfortunate moral implications to deal with. Cloning them and releasing them into the wild would be... well, awesome, but it'll wreak havoc on the present natural ecosystem where animals wouldn't normally need or have adaptations necessary to deal with animals from millions of years ago.
but the future refused to change. the miracle never happen.Who says that we'd have to release the clones into the wild?
Thinking of ideas to use with a literary work that is meant to be WikiWalked through.What about extinct animals which relied on wildly different environmental conditions?
For example, who would not love having dragonflies with a 75 cm (2.5 ft) wingspan
flying around? But on the other hand, it is doubtful whether such an organism could even survive in an atmosphere with the current oxygen concentration: its respiratory system, like most insects', was rather primitive...
Yeah, I agree with the article. Cloning mammoths within five years seems fairly unrealistic. Give it twenty more years, at least.
edited 6th Dec '11 11:17:42 PM by Carciofus
But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.So we just keep the dragonfly in a room that's having extra oxygen pumped in and let visitors view it through a window.
Thinking of ideas to use with a literary work that is meant to be WikiWalked through.Yes to cloning animals that went extinct because of humans (Which is almost everything that went extinct in the past 50000 years, including almost all ice Age species: everything alive today is an Ice Age survivor anyways), no to anything else. But since almost everything if not everything that can be cloned has gone extinct due to humans, I say do it.
And speaking of animals that went extinct naturally...if we ever do it, they'd better be locked up.
edited 1st May '15 7:38:01 AM by Bk-notburgerking
What value exists in cloning back into existence a species no longer capable of being sustained by its habitat? Why bring things back just so they can die again - or worse, become an invasive species of a new habitat and wreak untold ecological disaster?
edited 1st May '15 9:30:46 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.What are we talking about here- the cloning of a few individuals for scientific purposes, or re-introducing a species into the wild? The former I could see, even support enthusiastically (who doesn't want to see a real Woolly Mammoth?) The later? Absolutely not, that's an ecological catastrophe waiting to happen.
Nice thread necro, by the way.
I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.

Or to eat them. I'm sure extinct species are the most delicious, that's why they got eaten.
Fight smart, not fair.