 Mah_Boi
Male, 18-29, Western US
 490 Posts
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Wednesday, February 04, 2009 5:19:03 AM
I call dibs on the first compsognathus. |
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 spazking
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
245 Posts
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Tuesday, February 03, 2009 6:55:14 PM
sweet, this means pandas and blue whales are coveredhippie: save the whales!
scientist: done
hippie:....really? |
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 gorgack2000
Male, 13-17, Europe
2426 Posts
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Tuesday, February 03, 2009 12:48:25 AM
Damn, that's pretty good news! I remember reading about this ibex and the attempts to clone it... I suppose this was a partial success at least.Roll on Woolly Mammoth ranches. |
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 mcflylives
Male, 30-39, Eastern US
177 Posts
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Monday, February 02, 2009 10:01:37 PM
lmao TKD. TWICE!
even though it was a fictional book made into a fictional movie, didn't anyone learn that the idea of cloning dinosaurs, like in Jurassic Park, IS A REALLY BAD ONE? |
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 Negative_One
Male, 30-39, Western US
2488 Posts
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Monday, February 02, 2009 8:11:10 PM
It died, haha. Why don't they clone something cool like this thing,
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 Sociophobic
Male, 13-17, Southern US
354 Posts
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Monday, February 02, 2009 2:23:19 PM
I understand cloning stuff we killed, (see dodo, tasmanian tiger, etc.) but it should stop there. I'm going to take the Ian Malcolm stance and say we shouldn't bring back things that we didn't kill, more power to the ibex thing, though. |
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 last_ninja
Male, 18-29, Western US
395 Posts
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Monday, February 02, 2009 1:11:01 PM
beternal, we already know that whenever something is cloned it will die. thanks for reminding us of the fact that YES, EVERY LIVING THING IS MORTAL. i don't think we could've known without you. it's not a half-and-half mix, it's just put into a goats body with ibex mother and father cells. they do it with people all the time. dad's sperm, mom;s eggs but put it into another body. they're just handing out PhD's now, aren't they? |
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 TKD_Master
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
1747 Posts
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Monday, February 02, 2009 5:35:03 AM
poor Ibex, its the first species in the history of the planet to go extinct...TWICE. |
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 ThatWasFunny
Male, 13-17, Southern US
633 Posts
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Monday, February 02, 2009 2:16:45 AM
"Everything that has ever been resurrected has died, everything that has been cloned has died. It's more trouble than its worth!"Most everything that has ever lived has died.
What do you have to say about that? o.O |
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 beternal
Male, 18-29, Europe
848 Posts
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Monday, February 02, 2009 1:13:21 AM
Doing my PhD in genetics... this is all a waste of time right now! Notice how they are putting the DNa into goats?! - that is they're hoping they can recombine (effectively means to cross) a goats DNa with an ibex. Basically means we'll get something half and half.Everything that has ever been resurrected has died, everything that has been cloned has died. It's more trouble than its worth! And the others are right, DNa has a very short shelf-life. There has been so much degredation over time, dinosaurs will never be brought back. At the very most, you'll end up with a hybrid thing that might look like a larger crocodile/ komodo dragon |
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 Okasen
Female, 13-17, Southern US
707 Posts
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Sunday, February 01, 2009 9:02:53 PM
First order of business when they clone dinosaurs:
drat yeah. |
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 _Perfection_
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
1749 Posts
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Sunday, February 01, 2009 8:57:33 PM
Apocalypse!!!! Apocalypse!!!! |
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AndrewST
Male, 18-29, Western US
183 Posts
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Sunday, February 01, 2009 8:31:33 PM
Going to do a little Crystal Balling here....I seen that in the future "Beware of Dog" signs will be replaced by "Beware of Dinosaur" signs....and shortly after that the USPS comes to a grinding halt due to a lack of Mail Men/Women to deliver mail....due to being eaten. |
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 wcclark
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
578 Posts
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Sunday, February 01, 2009 7:59:31 PM
It's good to know mankind is trying to fix the horrible drat ups they've made all their existence.Sadly, it will probably also be used to make more humans. That's just what we need. |
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 sixclaws13
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
2308 Posts
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Sunday, February 01, 2009 7:03:40 PM
I'll be happy when I can ride my triceratops to work. |
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 yellowsquare
Female, 18-29, Midwest US
1445 Posts
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Sunday, February 01, 2009 6:34:27 PM
jumper4saken, you're right. There is DNA in bone marrow, but there is no bone marrow in fossils anymore. Remember that fossils are "rock-ified" bone...it's just rock in the shape of bone.Actually, there's even DNA in bones (bones have cells! :D). And Hansbo, I'm not a paleontologist, and my expertise goes as far as Jurassic Park, but there might be legitimacy to the "extracting dinosaur blood from mosquitos preserved in amber" technique. ...maybe...
? |
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 SPrinkZ
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
1222 Posts
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Sunday, February 01, 2009 6:10:19 PM
It takes thousands/millions of years for our ecosystem to absorb the niches that were lost by the extinction of an animal/animals. |
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 Altaru
Male, 13-17, Eastern US
699 Posts
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Sunday, February 01, 2009 4:14:40 PM
Asspenny, I think he meant the Tasmanian Tiger, or whatever it is, that Bordered posted a picture of...And that thing is scary as all hell... Please don't let them clone it... NOW I'm actually scared of the cloning idea... |
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 Asspenny
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
1120 Posts
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Sunday, February 01, 2009 3:20:57 PM
since when are tasmanian devils extinct?man, opie you made me think of brontosaurus burgers, me want now |
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 Tikitac
Male, 18-29, Southern US
115 Posts
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Sunday, February 01, 2009 3:02:16 PM
My policy is sure resurrect species we killed recently and introduce them to their old homes but only bring back dinos and woolly mammoths for studying.Oh Opie I define recently as in the last 200-300 years because otherwise the ecosystem should have adapted around the animals lost. |
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 vicious_liar
Male, 13-17, Europe
973 Posts
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Sunday, February 01, 2009 2:53:30 PM
They're also trying to clone a tasmanian devil (no kidding here, because the tasmanian devil isn't just a cartoon) since they found one of them. Damn intresting if it works. |
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 jumper4saken
Female, 18-29, Canada
64 Posts
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Sunday, February 01, 2009 2:36:00 PM
"@jumper4saken
Humans are kind of dicks, arn't we?"Ya we're greedy f*ckers! "Don't really understand the science behind cloning dinosaurs. I mean, aren't there just fossils left? And since when did fossils have DNA?" I believe there's DNA in bone marrow or something... not sure, might be wrong. |
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 Hansbo
Male, 18-29, Europe
827 Posts
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Sunday, February 01, 2009 2:23:52 PM
Don't really understand the science behind cloning dinosaurs. I mean, aren't there just fossils left? And since when did fossils have DNA? |
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 opiebreath
Female, 18-29, Midwest US
14283 Posts
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Sunday, February 01, 2009 2:11:09 PM
I'm still waiting to be able to eat a hamburger that's made of cloned meat.WHERE'S MY BURGER OF THE FUTURE, HMM!? |
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yellowsquare
Female, 18-29, Midwest US
1445 Posts
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Sunday, February 01, 2009 1:38:48 PM
I am signing up to work on synthesizing wooly mammoth DNA. Immediately. |
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