Cloning the Wolly Mammoth

[Archbob]

So, a couple of years ago in scientific American, a couple of scientists wanted to clone a Mammoth by impregnating a female Asian elephant. They want to inject the Mammoth Embryo into an Elephant egg to get a pure Mammoth in one shot instead of the slow way of just fertilizing a Egg with Mammoth sperm and slowing producing a Mammoth over many generations.

Do you guys think this will ever work?

On a greater question, why do we want to bring back this thing anyways?
Didn't it become extinct for a reason, would it just die again?

Edit: Crap, I spelled Woolly wrong in the title.

 

[DNK]

I think it became extinct because we killed it a lot.

I'm all for it. I want to see some Canadian mammoths.

Will it work is just a matter of biology. Assuming they can get decent DNA, I'm hopeful.

Maybe they could clone a Neanderthal while they're at it?

 

[CaptainF]

I wanna see mammoths roaming around Oregon.

 

[Archbob]

Don't we have enough trouble keeping what animals we currently have alive? Do we really need to bring back the Dead.

 

[woody60707]

Don't we have enough trouble keeping what animals we currently have alive? Do we really need to bring back the Dead.

All the more reason.

 

[Bill3000]

Don't we have enough trouble keeping what animals we currently have alive? Do we really need to bring back the Dead.

That's precisely the reason why we should be cloning extinct animals, cuz we're making 'em extinct anyway.

 

[DNK]

So, I have a big question...

Is cloning a Neanderthal cloning a human or cloning an animal?

 

[Bill3000]

So, I have a big question...

Is cloning a Neanderthal cloning a human or cloning an animal?

Neither, it's cloning a sapient animal. Neanderthals arn't human, biologically speaking, though they are of the homo genus.

 

[Archbob]

I think I'm to clone a Megladon and let it loose in the ocean by the beach.

 

[West 36]

Clone it, if possible! Most of Canada and Siberia is just wasted space anyway!

 

[woody60707]

So, I have a big question...

Is cloning a Neanderthal cloning a human or cloning an animal?

Humans are animals too.

But no, Neanderthals aren't human. But do seem to be self-aware.

Yes, this would open a moral can of worms.

 

[DNK]

That was my point. I love cans of worms, they're so fun...

Can I be put in jail for killing a cloned Neanderthal then? Or would I just face a fine for destruction of property?

 

[Ecofarm]

I'm looking forward to the WoolyMan!

Experiments to create Britain’s first embryos that combine human and animal material will begin within months after a government watchdog gave its approval yesterday to two research teams to carry out the controversial work.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article3204128.ece

Yea, strawmanbearpig was all funny, till it became real...

That's precisely the reason why we should be cloning extinct animals, cuz we're making 'em extinct anyway.

You realize that clones are so unstable, that it is basically sabatoging the species to use them for anything except experimentation or display? Then there's the lack of genetic diversity... No species will be saved by cloning. Stop the techno-koolaid.


EDIT: ps, You can correct the spelling in the title. Go to the OP\edit\advanced, you can edit the title from there.

 

[Archbob]

You realize that clones are so unstable, that it is basically sabatoging the species to use them for anything except experimentation or display? Then there's the lack of genetic diversity... No species will be saved by cloning. Stop the techno-koolaid.

Spontaneously combusting Woolly Mammoths could be the U.S. Military's new secret weapon.

 

[Bill3000]

You realize that clones are so unstable, that it is basically sabatoging the species to use them for anything except experimentation or display? Then there's the lack of genetic diversity... No species will be saved by cloning. Stop the techno-koolaid.

Yeah, I know that cloning absolutely sucks in its current state. And I also know that genetic diversity would be a problem if it was actually used as a method without anything else used.

That is, however, besides my point. There is no such thing as "techno-koolaid", by the way, only nutty environmentalist koolaid.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

It would be five kinds of awesome if they brought them back, but it is very unlikely to work.

Also, it was Flavor Aid.

 

[Swedishguy]

We can replace the panda with it.

 

[brennan]

...have I missed something? Where are we getting Mammoth sperm from?

 

[bhsup]

Well we'd better bring back sabre-tooth as well so we have something in nature to deal with the buggers.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Considering that we managed to wipe them out completely the first time using only spears, I think our current weapons are more than enough to deal with them.