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Frozen Mice Cloned
m0rphin3 writes "Japanese scientists have cloned mice whose bodies were frozen for as long as 16 years and said on Monday it may be possible to use the technique to resurrect mammoths and other extinct species. Could we finally see Jurassic Park become a reality, or perhaps use this for colonizing other galaxies?"
I had in the last BBQ would also need cloning!
Maybe Computers will never be as intelligent as Humans.
For sure they won't ever become so stupid. [VR-1988]
Who keeps dead mice in their freezer for 16 years? Remind me not to have the Brunswick stew at their house.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
We use this technology to colonize other galaxies with giant wooly mamoths. That would be so cool.
Now that mice ice-cream factory I was planning will work _very_ well.
Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
(Sorry, is that too many rhetorical questions?)
I don't know, was that a rhetorical question?
Ice Age 3: Attack of the Clones
16,000 or 160,000,000 years. While this may be "just engineering" to some, it's still a big just as there's still a lot of DNA degradation that happens over the course of millennia. There's a lot of reasons this might not work for a species we've never seen develop.
That's why you plug the gaps with frog DNA. Nothing could possibly go wrong!
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
I mean, I'm all for freezing polar bears and other endangered species so that we can revive them when the weather is better (kind of like that grain vault) but shouldn't it be regulated so that it isn't creating awkward scenarios?
Like what, a long extinct animal suddenly appearing at a dinner party, causing everybody to spit out their drinks?
Negative moral value of force outweighs the positive value of good intentions.
We know someone is going to make a real-life Jurassic Park someday, let's decide right now where it should be.
We need a really isolated island, let the voting begin!
Reply with your choice and for which reasons.
Could we finally see Jurassic Park become a reality
Yea we should totally do that, because it worked out so well in the movie.
How about the dodo.
Admit it you want to know how it tastes!
Yes. Pretty soon the galaxy will be full of spaceships carrying frozen telephone sanitizors.
The frog DNA turns out to be a third fail-safe that Crichton did not mention: If the lysine dependence and all-female population fail-safes did not stop the dinosaurs, the frog DNA should guarantee their extinction from fungus, habitat loss, and [possibly] man-made climate change.
During the sentencing of John Doe for the killing and eating of albino baby seals, the judge calls John up to the stand, and quietly asks him: "Out of sheer curiosity, what did they taste like?"
To which John replies: "Sort of like a cross between bald eagle eggs and emperor penguin."
A funny post to be sure, but from accounts ~400 years ago we already know it tastes rather fowl.
....with TWO frozen mice?
I don't think colonizing other galaxies with frozen mice is such a great idea. Live mice aren't too bright, let alone frozen ones.
He talks about killing all hippies and gets modded insightful? I know that some people on slashdot have trouble recognizing a joke when they see one...but seriously...insightful???
What little trace of faith I once had in the slashdot moderation system is now completely gone.
And yes I am kinda new here.
...on Monday it may be possible to use the technique to resurrect mammoths and other extinct species.
Why Monday? Does he have something against doing it on Tuesday or Wednesday?
"Maybe I'll start writing sports stories, and attribute everything I don't understand to the infield fly rule, since I don't really understand it. No matter if the story is about football."
And it's fifteen-love-all, Godspeed You! Black Emperor coming up the inside straight, tacking to windward and about to haul the spinnaker, but oh no what's this, the referee's calling a line-out, leg before wicket, straight to the solar plexus and his king's in check. Respawn, quad damage, but can he get a triple-word score on the centre square. Yes he can, he's cleared the sand trap, an eagle under par at silly mid off and what a finish, what a finish. Straight to Alpha Centauri. Magnificent.
You are not a brain: http://books.google.com/books?id=2oV61CeDx-YC