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Is Extinction Only Temporary?

Posted by timothy on from the my-kids-will-be-my-clones dept.

Logic Bomb writes: "A group of researchers at a privately-owned Massachusetts company are trying out an experiment that could help solve some of earth's problems with endangered species. An article from the Washington Post details their project to create a cloned Asian Guar using a good ol' American cow as a surrogate mother. The new guar, 'Noah,' is due to be born next month -- in other words, the project is a success. The company sees great possibilities for earth's wildlife, because as long as an appropriate surrogate mother can be found -- of the same or another species -- there is hope for any endangered animal. The next project is to bring a species of Spanish mountain goat back from extinction(!). Giant Pandas are on the schedule too."

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  1. While we're bringing back things from extinction.. by Mr.+Neutron · · Score: 5
    Here are some suggestions for what they should bring back:

    Desktop environments that don't require a PIII 800 to run smoothly.

    Websites that aren't full of tables, frames, and layers that take two minutes to render.

    Newsgroups that aren't full of illiterates, flames, and spam.

    Those elegant, sturdy, indestructable IBM keyboards that you could spill coffee on and they would still work.

    /. polls that are interesting and enlightening, and actually tell us something about the current readership.

    JennyCam, back when Jenny was naked all the time.

    Local BBSes, back when they were cool and had real geeks on them.

    New Star Trek series that don't suck.

    That's about all that I can think of now. Anyone care to add to the list?

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  2. Habitat Timesharing by victim · · Score: 5
    Great! Now we can destroy most of the remaining habitat for commercially nonviable species and timeshare it. Say something like...
    • 2010-2040: gazelle, lions, elephants
    • 2040-2070: wildebeast, leopards, rhinos
    • 2070-2100: gnus, hyenas, buffalo
    • 2100-2130: repeat...
    I'm sure we can make it a big event, the changing of the beasts. Maybe switch over a different ecosystem every four years, sell tickets to the extermination of the previous tenant species and the release of the new creatures.