Topic: Scientists wants to clone a mummified mammoth from 39000 years ago

[Lelygax]

As the title says, anyone else thinks that it can in many ways go wrong? First mammoths, then dinosaurs and we will die xD

http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/19/4537160/yuka-39000-year-old-frozen-woolly-mammoth-on-show-in-japan

[Mooning Freddy]

Cientists Cientists Cientists Cientists Cientists Cientists

That Mitchell and Webb Look Series 4 - Episode 1 (Grammar Nazi)

 

Seriously though, cloning thousands-of-years old materia is probably impossible. The DNA should be all broken and shit.

[Lelygax]

It took almos 3 minutes to me understand where is the error, fixed xD
Its because we call it "cientistas" here, so I forgot the "S", +1 for the video.

About cloning, maybe its not impossible if they are so interested like that.

[Ahasverus]

[Dracula9]

Assuming they're actually capable of pulling it off (which they might be if they're going the route of impregnating a living elephant with a cloned egg), I have the strongest instinctual note that there a billions of ways it can go horribly, horribly wrong.

But the rest of me wants to see a hairy monster wrecking shit in Japan. Mammothra would be a sight to see.

[Lelygax]

"They are coming for us, run!"

[TheouAegis]

Dinosaurs didn't destroy the world. The problem is they cloned raptors and tyrannosaurs. Brachiosaurs and cerapods were tranquil enough.

But what if they mixed up smilodon DNA with the elephant/mammoth DNA? Saber-Toothed Wooly Mammoth!

[Lelygax]

Well, at last if they clone dinosaurs and all go wrong, we only need to throw another meteor at Earth hahaha... OMG we are doomed

[X]

Humans are far more dangerous then any cloned carnivorous dinosaur. Why? They only have sharp teeth and claws. We have toxic waste, nuclear waste, chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, guns, explosives and other such hell-raising shit that can literally induce a mass extinction 100 times over.

As long as the mammoth's DNA is largely intact they will no-doubt try to impregnate a elephant's egg since the two species are genetically linked. I've even heard about how soft tissue was accidentally discovered on a fossilized T-Rex leg bone 

[Mooning Freddy]

Genetic manipulation is always a potential for fu**ing up nature. First humans breed a sort of a fish to reproduce much faster to boost the food industry. Then the fish accidentally finds its way into the rivers, driving other sorts to extinction thanks to its improved capabilities. Fighting that sort of unnatural hazard is really difficult.

[Shiroi Koumori]

We are also losing a lot of crop varieties due to genetic manipulation and the preferences of people for certain varieties over others.

We have toxic waste, nuclear waste, chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, guns, explosives and other such hell-raising shit that can literally induce a mass extinction 100 times over.

Or make a kaiju. 

[Lelygax]

A mammoth IS a mini kaiju lol

[Ratty]

Sounds like a cool idea to me. Let's do it. Who knows, maybe this'll help us find out how to cure a disease in the future. I mean it's not like they're gonna release it into the wild or anything.

[Gecko]

Seriously though, cloning thousands-of-years old materia is probably impossible. The DNA should be all broken and shit.

If they move on to dinosaurs, they could fill in the broken parts of the DNA with frog DNA. Then they could make them all female, to avoid the problem of sexual reproduction.
I see no way this could go wrong. 

[Lelygax]

this can be wrong if a error in cloning makes them assexuated, them they can lay eggs without a partner