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Scientists aiming to bring back woolly mammoth create woolly mice (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 5 points 2 years ago (8 children)

What do you want the geneticists to do? They are educated in their domain, you can't just plop them into another field

The applications of their work is likely plenty in medicine and bioengineering

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    I want them to stop pretending that resurrecting a cold adapted species into an ecosystem that is rapidly melting will do anything productive.

    If they want to be helpful they can work out how to engineer humans that can survive 40 degree heat and breathe co2.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    If they want to be helpful they can work out how to engineer humans that can survive 40 degree heat and breathe co2.

    That's what they're fucking doing by bringing back the mammoth...

    They'll run when they're ready, but right now they're learning to crawl. Or to put it differently, let them cook.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    I was being sarcastic, I don't want bio-engineered humans adapted for extreme heat, I want us to not let our planet get to that point in the first place.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Well that's great and all, but what if that doesn't happen? Would you rather be dead or living comfortably in a warmer climate?

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    It's not going to happen. Genetic experiments on humans is banned in many countries and even if that weren't the case you're talking about an enormously expensive social program of intervening in an entire generation at conception. Maybe a few billionaires would do it, but they can afford to live comfortably anyway and they don't care if a few serfs die of heat exhaustion.

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