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0x0 ,

Ah yes, yet another case of Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.

adespoton ,

What happens next? A short burst of mammoth steaks followed by re-extinction.

finickydesert ,
@finickydesert@lemmy.ml avatar

Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.

PassingThrough ,

What happens next? A wave of even worse disregard for things.

After all, if we can bring back the mammoth, who cares if we off <insert species here>, they’ll just bring it back next rotation. /s

Rhaedas ,

The first Jurassic Park quote applies here, a few have used a variation of that idea of doing something just because you can. The other quote follows it, "Dinosaurs and man, two species separated by 65 million years of evolution have just been suddenly thrown back into the mix together. How can we possibly have the slightest idea what to expect?"

These aren't dinosaurs and are a lot closer to us in the timeline, but definitely reintroducing them in a large scale would have some effect to the environment they're put in. Perhaps we only make a few...seems kind of pointless though to bring back a species but keep them at extinction levels. And can they even survive as they were in a warming planet? We might not even be able to, and we're younger and current.

hex ,

Imagine how confused that mammoth is going to be.

transientpunk ,
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I don’t have to imagine. I’m just as confused

PowerCrazy ,

The genetic science is cool, the consequences of the science are non-existent. The consequences of using them as bio-engineering agents is obviously an open question, but a distraction at this point of time since governments around the world have no appetite for environmental science that doesn’t directly make someone money.

As for “what happens next,” it either becomes commercially viable and wolly mammoths are seen as mundane and numerous in the next few decades, or it becomes a one-off like Dolly the sheep and the herd population of woolly mammoths stays <10 plus maybe a few zoos.

twinnie ,

I don’t fucking care, I want woolly mammoths and dodos.

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