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Thread: De-Extinction

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    De-Extinction

    https://www.theguardian.com/science/...ion-scientists

    Its a common topic in the papers just now.

    Humans shouldnt play creator if you ask me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pacman1903 View Post
    https://www.theguardian.com/science/...ion-scientists

    Its a common topic in the papers just now.

    Humans shouldnt play creator if you ask me.
    Absolutely they should. If we have the ability to create a mammoth then why not. People view these subjects with skepticism and feel there is a moral obligation not to recreate something if nature destroyed it, however in the case of the mammoth, it was hunted to extinction rather than selected for extinction by nature. It will of course be a hybrid of some sort, but we have the scientific ability to do it, so we very well should do it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stupie82 View Post
    . It will of course be a hybrid of some sort, .
    That is why, as it wont be the real thing, it will be a makey uppy new version and I don't se the point

    A bit like sevco

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    This science is scary. You just don't know what they will create next.

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    Some scientist Pict will try the impossible and re- create an Aberdeen team that wins games. Mind you, they will have to re programme the rest of the league as three legged, hand webbed mo rons. Even then, it will be touch and go, probably winning on goal average.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Psaw View Post
    Some scientist Pict will try the impossible and re- create an Aberdeen team that wins games. Mind you, they will have to re programme the rest of the league as three legged, hand webbed mo rons. Even then, it will be touch and go, probably winning on goal average.
    I'd take that

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    Quote Originally Posted by Psaw View Post
    Some scientist Pict will try the impossible and re- create an Aberdeen team that wins games. Mind you, they will have to re programme the rest of the league as three legged, hand webbed mo rons. Even then, it will be touch and go, probably winning on goal average.
    Goal average was replaced by goal difference in the 70's around the same time your brain was replaced by jelly.

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    Ill chuck this in here

    20 years today since Dolly the Sheep came into being

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pacman1903 View Post
    Ill chuck this in here

    20 years today since Dolly the Sheep came into being
    Is it still alive?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stupie82 View Post
    however in the case of the mammoth, it was hunted to extinction rather than selected for extinction by nature.
    That's an arbitrary distinction and natural selection is a bit of a misnomer. Nature doesn't really 'select' animals for extinction. Animals either live long enough to pass on their genes to offspring or they don't. Simple as that really.

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