Nothing bad will happen, as long as they spare no expense.
It’s all fun and games until you’re being chased down in your Jeep by a dodo.
The lesson there is: Spare no expense on your IT budget!
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.
#bringbackthesabretooth
“Your Scientists Were So Preoccupied With Whether Or Not They Could, They Didn’t Stop To Think If They Should”
But why? We have no iceage anymore.
Obviously for the local petting zoo
Plus, mammoth burgers
I hope whatever species that comes after us doesn’t bring us back
The world they lived in is long gone along with the food they ate and the rest of their species. It seems almost cruel to bring them back.
Not that long gone—the last relict population on Wrangel Island only died out about 4000 years ago. That’s (barely) within historic time. There are probably islands in the Canadian and Siberian Arctic that could still support them (and have no or few human inhabitants).
I see two big issues. First of all, not all knowledge among elephants is transmitted genetically, and I expect mammoths were the same. Who will the new ones learn from? They’ll have to redevelop best practices for dealing with their environment from scratch.
Secondly, global warming. This seems like about the worst possible time to bring back an ice-age-adapted critter. We’d be better off transferring the effort spent on this project into de-extincting the thylacine, a more recent loss which doesn’t have that specific issue.
I’m fairly certain they are working on the thylacine as well?
Different group, I think, and not as close to success. The thylacine has a better chance at long-term survival if we do bring it back, though—it isn’t an ice age creature, and it was surviving despite competition from other creatures in a similar niche until humans started aggressively hunting it down.
I think the mammoths have a really good shot actually. Siberia seems like it will be perfect for them
It’s not that long gone. There were still mammoths around when the pyramids were built. Plus there’s still huge swaths of tundra and taiga that they could live on, with a lot of the same plants, even if it’s quite a bit warmer.
In the grand scheme of things the pyramids were built relatively recently, but I’d still consider it quite long ago
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
But now we have AI! Both and many more problems will be solved any time now…
“We have no idea what happens next.”
Scientists: we know almost exactly what will happen.
Does anyone else feel like this is irresponsible? Like, I get it, humans have been destroying the ecosystems of endangered and extinct animals for awhile now. But the world is actively warming up. And even if this is successful, how do we create enough of them to survive and procreate without defects etc. And where the hell will they live? I just have some concerns.
Nearly every species ever has gone extinct. What you see around you are those few species that made it to the present. So, yes, on one hand it doesn’t matter. On the other hand, a new population of elephants isn’t going to affect the world and we can appreciate them.
It’s amazing that people are still wasting resources on this kinda stuff while the planet burns.
we have no idea what happens next
Make a variant with multiple butts
Or make is exactly the size on the picture, where the mammoth fits in a petri dish.
- 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.
Everything outside of cities should be a nature reserve and we should clone extinct megafauna to put in zoos
Enjoy eating rocks, I guess?
If we could just remove every parking lot and replace all major roads with trains, we would free up so much mammoth habitat.
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
