Reviving a woolly mammoth

[Bigfoot3814]

Wrong. They are drowning because they have to swim further and further for food resources. Or at least thats the allegation.

They don't have as much food around because there's less pack ice around. Setting a bunch of woolly mammoths free in the arctic wouldn't do TOO much.

 

[Stormrage]

Mammoths go to the john too. Think of all the methane.. Our fragile ozone can`t handle mammoths taking dumps everywhere

Seriously, we need to work on cloning, science has to go forward!

 

[Simple Simon]

I was operating on the assumption that he did something to deserve it, in which case it is perfectly natural that he got himself killed.

I see. So if the murder of those who behave like extended-back-holes is natural, why is it forbidden in most countries?

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Society is unnatural.

 

[Lillefix]

Society is unnatural.

That's deep. What is natural then?

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

The word "natural" has no meaning. What is, is.

 

[Lillefix]

Good point. I agree.

 

[BSmith1068]

What about resurrecting Neanderthals?

http://www.slate.com/id/2205310/

 

[Loppan Torkel]

What about resurrecting Neanderthals?

http://www.slate.com/id/2205310/

Not sure. It would be interesting, but what status would they have? Would they be entitled to human rights? If they do - are they going to be treated in any other way than a lesser race? Are they our responsibility to take care of in today's society? Could we do medical testing on them?

 

[civvin449]

Not sure. It would be interesting, but what status would they have? Would they be entitled to human rights? If they do - are they going to be treated in any other way than a lesser race? Are they our responsibility to take care of in today's society? Could we do medical testing on them?

I don't think they will get a place in our society. Probably, they will be viewed as some kind of experiment or something. Human rights? Scientists don't even know if they could speak, so I doubt it. But again, they don't know.
But why not? It would be fun after all

 

[Lillefix]

They would definetely get human rights. I think they would have an average intelligence very close to our own.

 

[holy king]

Not sure. It would be interesting, but what status would they have? Would they be entitled to human rights? If they do - are they going to be treated in any other way than a lesser race? Are they our responsibility to take care of in today's society? Could we do medical testing on them?

we made them, we own them.

 

[Loppan Torkel]

we made them, we own them.

That's what I was thinking, but you know the liberals will make a big fuzz about it. Think of the possibilities... a harem full of neanderthals...

 

[BSmith1068]

^^ I suppose - if you like that sort of thing... (big and hairy that is...)

 

[El_Machinae]

By the time we're technologically capable of cloning a Neanderthal, I'd imagine that they'd be protected with regards to rights.

 

[West 36]

Reviving Neanderthals would be like reviving a man from 50,000 BC, humans have changed since then and may not have the same abilities modern man does. I'm speaking out of my ass but it's something that came to mind.

Bring on the Woolly Mammoth though, and anything else that's cool and extinct. Screw Jurassic Park in that respect.

 

[holy king]

Don't you see the danger, John, inherent in what you're doing here? Genetic power is the most awesome force the planet's ever witnessed, yet you wield it like a kid that's found his dad's gun.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Maybe we can put them in Hollywood movies.

 

[TheLastOne36]

About the Neanderthals.. how was the average Neanderthal women?

 

[West 36]

Maybe we can put them in Hollywood movies.

See, they pay for themselves, let's get on it already.