"We have no idea what happens next."
Scientists: we know almost exactly what will happen.
this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2024
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Yet another thing we have entire books and movie series about what will go wrong, and probably how. Yet somehow a way will be found to make it go wrong in exactly those ways.
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
Make a variant with multiple butts
Or make is exactly the size on the picture, where the mammoth fits in a petri dish.
but with five butts
Articles about deextinction often reference the Pyrenean Ibex that died 7 minutes after birth. Why has nobody tried that one again?
I hope it's pet pygmy mamoths
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.
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...
Fun fact: faster computers allowed tokamak reactors to get a net positive power output, because it allowed them to quickly optimize the magnetic containment field.
You know what AI needs the most long term? Nuclear fusion...
"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.
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