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Modern Day Noah's Ark Dying

Posted by Hemos on from the down-into-the-great-blue-under dept.

hype7 writes "The Sydney Morning Herald is running a story about the Monash Institute of Reproduction and Development's Gene Bank, which appears to be running out of funding. It seems a terrible shame, because the Bank has managed to accumulate thousands of Australian and foreign endangered species; a kind of modern day Noah's Ark. At the moment it's in limbo, using funds diverted from other projects to keep it in ER, but the prospects aren't looking good."

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  1. Noah's Ark by Mattcelt · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hey, Noah only had to house the animals for forty days and forty nights, right? That seems like a waaaay smaller budget than these guys!

  2. lies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    it's getting closed not because of the lacking of money but because the director of the institute got caught importing "Grand Theft Auto 3" (original version) and making lil' some'ng some'ng on the side.

  3. Silent running... by wowbagger · · Score: 2, Funny

    We just need to build a large fleet of spacecraft, and place all these seeds in orbit around Saturn....

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  4. Endangered project? by colmore · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, if the research is in danger, perhaps we could just take the DNA from all of the scientists involved and store them in some sort of bank. Then when society comes to its senses we could clone them and start the project over.

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  5. Re:Frozen Zoo by Aexia · · Score: 2, Funny

    Are you sure that's not Ted Nugent's freezer?