Did anyone see the TV program cloning the mammoth..
It was like science fiction..puppys with bright green claws as a marker..(dog cloning sounds like re-pet clone your dog)
I must admit it made me think about what the future holds!
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M. Gregg
It was like science fiction..puppys with bright green claws as a marker..(dog cloning sounds like re-pet clone your dog)
I must admit it made me think about what the future holds!
Regards
M. Gregg
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They didn't explain how they got round the genetic aging problem with cloning. For dumbed down TV science it was very interesting. Can't see them successfully cloning one tho. Best you would have is a fat, furry elephant, which has some charm if you could get it past the ethics committee.
Just last week we (+ two grand-kids) saw new the "Mammoths and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age" at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
https://www.cmnh.org/visit/exhibits/Mammoths-and-Mastodons
I learned that they ate different foods (one at grass the other ate tree products) they sometimes grazed the same fields at the same time in North America.
https://www.cmnh.org/visit/exhibits/Mammoths-and-Mastodons
I learned that they ate different foods (one at grass the other ate tree products) they sometimes grazed the same fields at the same time in North America.
In the program they said,
This could be an answer to global warming..they said the idea was to have herds of them on open grasslands.
the re-pet bit was cloning dogs however they modified the DNA so the clones could be told apart from the normal animals with green claws.
They found what they said was blood and intended to try to clone a mammoth..or use the DNA from the dead mammoth to engineer a mammoth.
The manipulation of the DNA for the marker had an effect on me making some of the scifi films have possibilities..a bit scary..
If you can clone a dog a cat a sheep..I wonder if they have cloned a person..I guess we would not know.
I assume it would have green nails.. perhaps the eyes would be another possibility.
I found this:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x94q58_cloned-fluorescent-dog_news
I guess its another take on the same thing..The adds are such a pain on dailymotion.
Regards
M. Gregg
This could be an answer to global warming..they said the idea was to have herds of them on open grasslands.
the re-pet bit was cloning dogs however they modified the DNA so the clones could be told apart from the normal animals with green claws.
They found what they said was blood and intended to try to clone a mammoth..or use the DNA from the dead mammoth to engineer a mammoth.
The manipulation of the DNA for the marker had an effect on me making some of the scifi films have possibilities..a bit scary..
If you can clone a dog a cat a sheep..I wonder if they have cloned a person..I guess we would not know.
I assume it would have green nails.. perhaps the eyes would be another possibility.
I found this:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x94q58_cloned-fluorescent-dog_news
I guess its another take on the same thing..The adds are such a pain on dailymotion.
Regards
M. Gregg
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This looks similar,
Russian scientists: We have a "high chance" of cloning a wooly mammoth
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M. Gregg
Russian scientists: We have a "high chance" of cloning a wooly mammoth
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M. Gregg
I have no idea why they think that. The problems with the Tundra is the permafrost melting. Why a mammoth will help with that I have no idea.
mammoths grazed the tundra during the last ice age. Why would putting them back in a warming period make the slightly bit of difference to greenhouse gasses? All sounds a bit mediabitch science soundbite rather than result of any serious analysis. Same sort of argument that gave Australia the Cane toad.
I think I've seen this or a similar program a few months ago. It certainly raises a lot of interesting questions. Seems quite plausible, not sure why we'd pursue the recreation of a naturally extinct species when there are so many extant already in trouble though? Other than that mammoths are cool 🙂 I recall an eccentric russian who was trying to recreate the stone age flora and fauna in a remote part of Siberia, Pleistocene Park - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I know that there is interest in trying to bring back the Thylacine (a few others too). Always feel a bit despondent when I see footage of the last thylacine pacing around in a zoo 🙁
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odswge5onwY
I know that there is interest in trying to bring back the Thylacine (a few others too). Always feel a bit despondent when I see footage of the last thylacine pacing around in a zoo 🙁
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odswge5onwY
Let's imagine the logic - it was cold when mammoths died out, so if we bring them back to life it will cool off...good grief.
Perhaps the mammoth has an anti greenhouse gas fart!😀
woof..Perhaps I should say ozone emission..
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M. Gregg
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Perhaps the mammoth has an anti greenhouse gas fart!😀
Perhaps I should say ozone emission..
Regards
M. Gregg
I heard about this on NPR - Wait, Wait, Don't Tell me over the weekend - I almost choked on my high mountain organic chai tea, and couldn't resist "passing" on :
http://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=AwrT...for-that/RK=0/RS=bv2kaMZPVIEgHHwfIVaXCr8bMXQ-
Typical sensationalized BS.
I wish these people would think through what the ramifications would be of introducing such a species into modern culture.
(1) what would be the advantage of re-introducing this species?
(2) What might be the negative consequences of such an introduction?
What a bunch of under thought BS.
We've screw up enough things without introducing another species which couldn't adapt 30000 to 50000 years ago.
I wish these people would think through what the ramifications would be of introducing such a species into modern culture.
(1) what would be the advantage of re-introducing this species?
(2) What might be the negative consequences of such an introduction?
What a bunch of under thought BS.
We've screw up enough things without introducing another species which couldn't adapt 30000 to 50000 years ago.
I was always fascinated with the mammoths of Wrangel island, they managed to hold on until 2000BC.
Just out of curiosity but what is 'chai tea'?
In russian and a number of other languages chai simply means tea and in India you can get Masala chai (tea flavoured with ginger, cardamon, cinnamon, pepper and other spices) so I am still at a loss what 'chai tea' means.
It's tautology. To me (Indian wife) it means Indian tea, boiled to death, milky and gingery. I'll make it, but I won't drink it.
However the great think about English is that it evolves. So for now 'chai tea' is a mislabling by a new age tea company, but in the future it may mean something completely different
However the great think about English is that it evolves. So for now 'chai tea' is a mislabling by a new age tea company, but in the future it may mean something completely different
post 14 - mega fauna just about all toasted (actually frozen) before we got here
Personally I like mammoths. So if there's any chance that at some point we could bring them back, or something reasonably akin, count me as in favour. We're very good at wiping things out; it'd be nice, given our moderately advanced status in scientific terms, if we could do a minor amount of reversal.
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