Japanese Attempt To Clone Mammoth

EvyMetal wrote:

MetalGuy71 wrote:

Did these people learn nothing from watching 'Jurassic Park'? No good can come from this. They are extinct for a reason.

Let's work on time travel and flying cars instead. Or one of those teleportation doo-hickeys from Star Trek. Something I can use.

I don't think you want one of those teleportation things, wasn't it explained that it creates a carbon copy of yourself with same memories, and destroys the old you? So you actually get killed, but everyone else thinks it's the same you. So if that's what is really happening, then they've already figured out the cloning process.

Well of course there are going to be some kinks in the system that need to be worked out. And that carbon-copy thing is just a theory. That's why you never buy the first version of anything Steve Jobs or Bill Gates puts out. I figure if they make a teleporter that works, we should field test it on prisoners or homeless people for a few years before they are mass marketed.

Look how long it took from the time the Wright Brothers took flight for all of 12 seconds till the first commercial airline. Progress takes time. But for something as grand as a teleporter, I'm willing to wait. What good is a wholly mammoth gonna do me?

Maybe mammoths are tasty.

tohostudios wrote:

Maybe mammoths are tasty.

Since I mentioned the dodo, that thought has crossed my mind, but I'm going to assume that their closest living relative is the elephant and we don't eat those either. Not in this country anyway. China probably has a recipe for elephant dong soup or something.

However, if we started eating elephant burgers, then maybe the next logical step would be breeding mammoths for mass consumption. But the feeding and containment of such great beasts would be cost prohibitive, I think. And it might ruffle some PETA members to discover that we've cloned extinct animals just to bar-b-que them. So until that time comes, I'm gonna pass on the genetically engineered mammoth burger.

http://congocookbook.com/soup_and_stew_recipes/elephant_soup.html

tohostudios wrote:

http://congocookbook.com/soup_and_stew_recipes/elephant_soup.html

See, that's in the congo. They probably have recipes for human soup too.

MetalGuy71 wrote:

tohostudios wrote:

http://congocookbook.com/soup_and_stew_recipes/elephant_soup.html

See, that's in the congo. They probably have recipes for human soup too.

I'd do a google search for that but I don't want to set off the security alarms here at work.

tohostudios wrote:

MetalGuy71 wrote:

tohostudios wrote:

http://congocookbook.com/soup_and_stew_recipes/elephant_soup.html

See, that's in the congo. They probably have recipes for human soup too.

I'd do a google search for that but I don't want to set off the security alarms here at work.

Ditto. I have pretty lenient internet rules, work-wise, but I don't want a visit from the FBI thinking I'm raising my children like veal for dinner.

I found this interesting.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080309170009AARnUCC

tohostudios wrote:

I found this interesting.

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I'm sure Ted Nugent has a recipe for grilled elephant steaks too.

I liked this part of the review...

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The closest thing I can compare it to is "stringy" Moose or Elk meat or even Buffalo..It tasted somewhat "gamey" but it wasn't repulsive.

It wasn't repulsive, you say? Well, sign me up, Captain!

I'm not saying I wouldn't eat elephant or mammoth. I'll try just about anything if it's cooked right. Alligator, deer, pheasant, rabbit, moose, buffalo, shark and ostrich have all passed down my gullet at one point. I eat Chinese take-out, so you could probably add pigeon and alley cat to the list. Hell, I've even eaten snails and they looked like something I sneezed out. But to go through all the expense and hours of lab work to resurrect an extinct creature just for dinner seems like a waste of funds.

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What the heck is that avatar SM74?

Brianna took the head of her Lord Vader Christmas ornament and temporarily replaced it with a silly-putty head. I thought it was hilarious, and, the rest is history. I imagine him saying "Give me all of your jelly beans!"

I am wondering that if they actually cloned a mammoth, where would they put it? It's an animal from the planet's ice age days, when most of the earth was covered in ice. If they were to successfully reignite the mammoth species, they'd have to throw them out onto Antartica or somewhere in the arctic circle. However, they could be destroying environments that have lived peacefully for so long.

Not only that but what if the mammoth DNA carries an extinct disease? Something humans have never needed to develop immunity to because it never existed at the same time as people. Diseases don't often jump species but if this one has never existed with humans, who knows what could happen?

tohostudios wrote:

Not only that but what if the mammoth DNA carries an extinct disease? Something humans have never needed to develop immunity to because it never existed at the same time as people. Diseases don't often jump species but if this one has never existed with humans, who knows what could happen?

I'm pretty sure Humans were the main cause for the Woolly Mammoths' extinction