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SplashJackson ,

I hope whatever species that comes after us doesn’t bring us back

atrielienz ,

Does anyone else feel like this is irresponsible? Like, I get it, humans have been destroying the ecosystems of endangered and extinct animals for awhile now. But the world is actively warming up. And even if this is successful, how do we create enough of them to survive and procreate with defects etc. And where the hell will they live? I just have some concerns.

werefreeatlast ,

Welcome to 1000 years ago park! 🏞️ We got 🐘 🦥 but bigger!

MonkderVierte ,

But why? We have no iceage anymore.

Zron ,

Obviously for the local petting zoo

Plus, mammoth burgers

StenSaksTapir ,

I’ve said this a million times before, but if we’re playing gods anyway, can’t we make them dog sized also?

I would totally get one or maybe two.

makyo ,

Yeah you say that until you get a tusk in the crotch

StenSaksTapir ,

They’ll be wearing stylish pool noodles on the tusks to minimize furniture and gonad damage.

Or we create them with softer tusks. Maybe that’s better, the. They’ll also be worthless to poachers.

Deceptichum ,
@Deceptichum@quokk.au avatar

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmy_mammoth

StenSaksTapir ,

Those are closer to horse-sized, but it’s a good start.

kandoh ,

Everything outside of cities should be a nature reserve and we should clone extinct megafauna to put in zoos

MonkderVierte ,

Maybe in 100 years, with how underfunded research in vertical farming is.

shottymcb ,

Enjoy eating rocks, I guess?

https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia1.tenor.com%2Fm%2F30uxbAJi3lEAAAAC%2Frockbiter-gourmet-rocks.gif

kandoh ,

Vertical farms to reduce wasteful agriculture practices

simplejack ,
@simplejack@lemmy.world avatar

Obligatory Jurassic Park Melodica Theme

technocrit ,

It’s amazing that people are still wasting resources on this kinda stuff while the planet burns.

Hydra_Fk ,

Some degenerate gonna fuck that mammoth!

thefartographer ,

I really don’t wanna upvote this, but I can’t not

lemmeBe ,

So, like totally the same feeling! 🤣🤣🤣

essteeyou ,

Not everyone can work specifically on the one thing you find most pressing. Some people are hairdressers, some people work in a supermarket, some people are learning about genetics, some people are actors.

The platform you’re posting on isn’t essential for saving the planet, should it still exist? The servers it uses create pollution.

daddy32 ,

I don’t know, bringing back some of the species that this burning caused to go extinct - instead of the celebs mentioned in the article - would be nice.

latenightnoir ,

To be fair, I think research on mammoth cloning started a good while ago and, if scientific research is anything like a start-up (spitballing here, I have no clue), doing a massive reorientation mid-process ends up costing more in the long term. At this point, it’d be easier to just finish figuring stuff up with mammoths then adjusting and applying the process on other entities/purposes.

Still MFW we’re cloning woolly mammoths on a boiling planet. Lol. Lmao, even.

socsa ,

I choose to use my individual agency to focus on mammoth cloning and not climate change. Are you going to arrest me and force me to do the science you want?

TheRealCharlesEames ,

That’s crazy cause I think it’ll be here tomorrow

sentient_loom ,
@sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works avatar

This is cool, but are they really the beast we need to bring back? Where will they stay?

Paraponera_clavata ,

Who’s we?

They’ll probably stay in zoos or preserves.

Nomecks ,

Nothing bad will happen, as long as they spare no expense.

Telorand ,

It’s all fun and games until you’re being chased down in your Jeep by a dodo.

Nomecks ,

The lesson there is: Spare no expense on your IT budget!

Reverendender ,

And everyone knows not to mess with the raptor fences

Semi_Hemi_Demigod ,
@Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world avatar

I have an idea: Mammoth burgers

7U5K3N ,

Worked in the docudrama “the Flintstones”

TomMasz ,
@TomMasz@lemmy.world avatar

The world they lived in is long gone along with the food they ate and the rest of their species. It seems almost cruel to bring them back.

BirdyBoogleBop ,

Well pumpkins and avocados still exists at least and apparently they were grazers.

Semi_Hemi_Demigod ,
@Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world avatar

It’s not that long gone. There were still mammoths around when the pyramids were built. Plus there’s still huge swaths of tundra and taiga that they could live on, with a lot of the same plants, even if it’s quite a bit warmer.

illi ,

In the grand scheme of things the pyramids were built relatively recently, but I’d still consider it quite long ago

nyan ,

Not that long gone—the last relict population on Wrangel Island only died out about 4000 years ago. That’s (barely) within historic time. There are probably islands in the Canadian and Siberian Arctic that could still support them (and have no or few human inhabitants).

I see two big issues. First of all, not all knowledge among elephants is transmitted genetically, and I expect mammoths were the same. Who will the new ones learn from? They’ll have to redevelop best practices for dealing with their environment from scratch.

Secondly, global warming. This seems like about the worst possible time to bring back an ice-age-adapted critter. We’d be better off transferring the effort spent on this project into de-extincting the thylacine, a more recent loss which doesn’t have that specific issue.

Reverendender ,

I’m fairly certain they are working on the thylacine as well?

nyan ,

Different group, I think, and not as close to success. The thylacine has a better chance at long-term survival if we do bring it back, though—it isn’t an ice age creature, and it was surviving despite competition from other creatures in a similar niche until humans started aggressively hunting it down.

Reverendender ,

I think the mammoths have a really good shot actually. Siberia seems like it will be perfect for them

AbouBenAdhem , (edited )

Not advocating for restoring the mammoth, but this is a dangerous line of argument.

With climate change and ongoing mass extinctions, many current species are or will soon be in the same situation that re-introduced mammoths would be—and you could use the same argument to say that trying to preserve them is cruel so we should kill off any current species facing environmental stress.

Paraponera_clavata ,

They were here pretty recently, their food is still here. It was cruel that we extincted them.

mjhelto ,

It’s worse when you consider the state of the world and the warming. They’d have about 20 sq\km of land capable of supporting them and they’d have to share it with those psychos, polar bears.

vegeta OP ,

I hope they have put a substantial amount of thought into potential problems that could arise. (Not that it will actually be like JP)

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4a307cae-812d-4bf8-b50e-78dc9d4efd95.gif

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