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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?"
We use this technology to colonize other galaxies with giant wooly mamoths. That would be so cool.
Getting ahead of ourselves, arent we?
Why don't we check out the 400 billion stars in our own galaxy first?
Or is it you don't know what a galaxy is?
(Sorry, is that too many rhetorical questions?)
That's why this type of research needs to continue to push forward.
We could be eating fresh prime rib almost every day without worrying about ethical issues concerning the raising of animals in inhumane conditions, and we'd be cutting down on the methane as well as not having to pump our meat full of hormones and antibiotics. It's much easier to grow a mass of muscle cells and raise them to maturity than it would be to grow an entire animal from scratch. I'll gladly be a guinea pig as I don't care of the meat looks like a softball so long as it tastes good.
Ice Age 3: Attack of the Clones
I've already seen much comment by fanatical vegans on the Internet that even meat from lab-grown cells is deplorable.
But those are vegans. Us vegetarian-types would buy up lab-meat by the ton.
Changa hates change.
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.
Many vegans have the righteous "anti-establishment" mentality while refusing to understand that humans are omnivores and have been engineered to eat meats and plants. We need plants for minerals and meats for amino acids.
A funny post to be sure, but from accounts ~400 years ago we already know it tastes rather fowl.
Quick, while his DNA is still warm!