Comments on: Scientists Successfully Clone Mammoth

By: Wemustrepent Lookmeup

Wemustrepent Lookmeup — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:30:47 +0000

I also just thought of another thing i’d like
to add, on the same level:

TUNE OUT, TURN OFF, AND DROP IN
(and accept the consequences of your prudence)

a REAL cool alternative to:

“…tune in, turn on, and drop out…”
Timothy Leary, scientist/ recreational drug promoter

By: Wemustrepent Lookmeup

Wemustrepent Lookmeup — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:26:53 +0000

I just thought of an idea for doing, or not doing things:

IF IT FEELS WRONG – DON’T DO IT

(and accept the consequences of your prudence)

Seriously though.

By: Charles Hamel

Charles Hamel — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:50:22 +0000

Adamius

I totally agree with you. Our world is very adaptable, the argument that they are gone for a reason is mute to me. Our world could handle a mammoth being alive again. Now I might have a different opinion on a T-Rex though, but with the might that humans have, they probably wouldn’t be a problem either.
Great comment.

By: Adamius

Adamius — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:24:21 +0000

I want to know where they’re at with this these days. I am definitely all for cloning them. All animals, including these, should be treated with respect and given the best life possible, while still using them productively, but not cruelly. We could learn a lot, and you never know what that might include. We might find a gene in them that we can use in the fight against cancer, or learn something that revolutionizes our understanding of the eye, and if nothing else, we might just get to see a huge heaving furry magnificent wooly mammoth, which is reason enough alone…and my proof is, those of you that oppose the idea, if the rest of us went ahead and did it, would you stand on your principles and refuse to look at it, or would you admit you’re dying to see it and come take a look with the rest of us?

By: michelle

michelle — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 05:42:06 +0000

After reading the cave bear saga of Jane Auel’s, I would have to say I am more than willing to look upon these magnificent creatures. I truly believe we can learn much from them them. On the other hand where do we draw the line? i’m on the fence.

By: dan

dan — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:10:55 +0000

There is a private herd of buffalo (bison) near my town, and they sell the meat in the supermarkets. It’s pretty good. I’m thinking the mammoths might be tasty as well. Furthermore those tusks are huge and could be sold for quite a bit in asia. In short, revived mammoth herds could save modern elephants from extinction by poaching for their tusks. Plus the mammoths could live on ranches in the northern less populated areas of Siberia, Alaska, and Canada.

By: Mitchell Jones

Mitchell Jones — Wed, 06 May 2009 21:51:28 +0000

After reading the comments here I have to say that it is very refreshing to find a blog about a niche where the topics stay on point about the industry. I’m not everything, but the majority is on point and beneficial. Keep it going.

By: science nerd

science nerd — Mon, 04 May 2009 17:48:38 +0000

This is awesome, it will be interesting to bring back the mammoth and see how it livs, what it ate, its daily habits, its complete geonome, its reproductive cycle, family interations, and the habits of the present day elephant might be more akin to the mammoth than we think, who knows we might be raising mammoths for pets, their long hair to make coats, rugs, erc., their meat and milk as well as their ivory, very intersting, who knows we might have an ice age park as well as a jurassic park, would love to visit both, ca’t wait

By: DMPA

DMPA — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:59:10 +0000

Hm…Interesting article. I can see the pros and cons of it all, and believe that “God” has anything to do with us. Well, on the one side it’s amazing that we can finally bring back that what we ourselves (the human kind) have destroyed, but then on the other hand with such an enormous human population that grows by the minute, and expands their living grounds as if though there’s no limit will bring the question of “What land will the “new-old” animals occupy, and will it effect our living grounds?” “Will we be able to expand as much?” “How much risk is involved in it all for the human kind?” and so on and so forth. Keeping a mammoth at a zoo would be cruel, “unnatural” and potentially dangerous. Although I would LOVE to see all the animals our ignorant race has destroyed come back, but I think the mammoth would only last as another “Fad”, or would be harvest for its fur and tasks, and the large quantity of meat. As for the other extinct animals being “revived”, the scientists must first study where these “new-old” animals will live, and whether or not they will disrupt the already living communities of animals.

By: James J

James J — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:25:46 +0000

I believe its very much possible. Remember, the progress of science is not linear, it is logarithmic. For example from Archimedes attempts at flight, to the Wright brothers was some 2100+ years, but from Kittyhawk to the Moon was just 66. Likewise, Craig Venter was told it would be impossible to decode the human genome, as it would take (by the estimates of the day) centuries. Venter said 15 years. After 7 years, they had completed just over 1%. In the next 6 years they decoded the remaining 99%. We can expect to make more progress in genetics in the next 15 years than we have in all of history to this point.