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Baby Mammoth Found Intact
knoll99 writes "Scientists unveiled the discovery Wednesday of a baby mammoth found in the permafrost of north-west Siberia. The remains of the six-month-old female mammoth were discovered in a remarkable state of preservation on the Yamal peninsula of Russia in May, a Reuters report said. The specimen is believed to be the best of its kind to date."
some scrambled T-rex eggs, but then again I'm just that type of mutha fuckin balla.
The Jurassic Park-esque cloning talk is definitely going to be the focus of most of the discussion, but have any of the articles mentioned how well the tissues, organs, and fluids are preserved? This seems like an extraordinary chance to find hard evidence on what caused their extinction.
Let's start a petition: I promised my kids a baby Mammoth ride.
It seems the the Siberian mammoth population has tripled in the past 6 months...
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whenever mankind shows up, the slowly reproducing, tasty giant beasts and megafauna disappear, sometimes pretty quicky
off the top of my head, it happened to
the auroch
the irish elk
the moa
steller's sea cow (wiped out in 30 years, go progress!)
i'm sure slashdotters here could pull out a couple of dozen other examples
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
-- In the beginning was the WORD, and the WORD was UNSIGNED, and the main(){} was without form and void...
In either case, the important question to be answered after having encountered the finest example of something we've never seen before is, "Will it Blend?"
*Note: I am not in any way affiliated with that site. I just want to see more crap go into blenders and be filmed.
Mod me down and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!
not at all, humans killed off mammoths in the first place, brining them back would be righting a wrong of sorts.
Of course, what I _really_ want to see brought back is the giant ground sloth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatherium
Imagine a huge furry clawed creature the size of a bull elephant wandering around on its hind legs towering over 20 feet tall. I can't wait.
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The MAFIAA is a bunch of mindless jerks who will be the first up against the wall when the revolution comes
Oven Preparation Instructions:
1. Place on large spit.
2. Build really big fire.
3. Keep Ugg, Son of Hoogah and his Sister Dimbo, away from fire.
Microwave Preparation Instructions:
(Hey, do you think we're stoopid? Cavemen didn't HAVE microwaves. They only had rotisserie cookers.)
Microwave Mammoth NOT RECOMMENDED.
For delicious mammoth recipes, write: Creation Science Cooking Institute, Atlanta, Georgia.
TFA has a typo, its 4000 years old not 40,000. The mammoth will soon take its rightful place next to the Jesus horses at the Creation Museum.
To be fair, the purpose isn't to "mess with nature." It's not like scientists are saying, "Let's screw up the natural order of things," right? The point of doing this, if it's even possible, would be some combination of these closely related reasons: (1) satisfying our curiosity about what these things were like, (2) giving a species a second chance to live, (3) creating something interesting that no living human has seen, and (4) profiting from building an Ice Age Park. Aren't any of those legitimate reasons?
Revive the Constitution.
I feel like death on a soda cracker.
The next intelligent species will find us and be amazed at how many human corpses they've found lying around next to an artifact with what seems to be a mice-shaped object in their hand. It might take them a while to guess what we were doing,
I think what it has in its other hand will be a significant clue.
"Ladies and gentlemen, my killbot features Lotus Notes and a machine gun. It is the finest available."
The point of doing this, if it's even possible, would be some combination of these closely related reasons: (1) satisfying our curiosity about what these things were like, (2) giving a species a second chance to live, (3) creating something interesting that no living human has seen, and (4) profiting from building an Ice Age Park. Aren't any of those legitimate reasons?
It's a question of perspective. We can't possibly mess with natural order since we're part of nature. If we separate ourselves from the rest of the animals, then absolutely everything we do messes with natural order, even breathing air in and out (we're stealing oxygen that belongs to nature!).
There's a simpler guide: if we do it, would it result in a better (or neutral) situation for nature, and us, or worse?
- Artificial ingredients in food that harms us: don't do it.
- Artificial ingredients in food proven to not harm us: do it.
- Genetically engineered food: it's again a case-per-case basis, no ultimate stance.
- Revive ancient beasts: sounds like fun, what could go wrong? Are they gonna multiply overnight and take over the world?