vegeta@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago'Closer than people think': Woolly mammoth 'de-extinction' is nearing reality — and we have no idea what happens nextwww.livescience.comexternal-linkmessage-square37fedilinkarrow-up119arrow-down10cross-posted to: science@lemmy.ml
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minus-squareStenSaksTapir@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6 months agoI’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.
minus-squaremakyo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoYeah you say that until you get a tusk in the crotch
minus-squareStenSaksTapir@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-26 months agoThey’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.
minus-squareThreeme2189@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoI don’t want to live in a world that has wooly mammoths with floppy tusks. It just seems wrong.
minus-squareRecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoWhat about that trunk though? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
minus-squareSpruceBringsteen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoIf they’re like their cousins you don’t want a pet that smart. Especially with a trunk. Good luck mammoth proofing your house.
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.
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 ͡°)
If they’re like their cousins you don’t want a pet that smart. Especially with a trunk. Good luck mammoth proofing your house.