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Resurrecting Extinct Species......

JayhawkerJayhawker Posts: 18,355 Senior Member
Saw an article in National Geographic about it....While I can see all kinds of down sides to it, I've always thought Mega-Fauna were kind of neat....It would be kinda cool to see Wooly Mammoths, Irish Elk, and Longhorn Bison roaming the plains...(Giant Sloths not so much)but while I was thinking about it, I had an epiphany...while they're at it, they could cook up a bunch of saber-toothed cats and a few packs of Dire Wolves and turn them loose in Chicago.....Bingo! Gang problem solved!
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  • bullsi1911bullsi1911 Posts: 12,419 Senior Member
    I always wondered what Ddo Bird tasted like...
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  • CHIRO1989CHIRO1989 Posts: 14,840 Senior Member
    bullsi1911 wrote: »
    I always wondered what Ddo Bird tasted like...

    Chicken.
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  • zorbazorba Posts: 25,279 Senior Member
    How about a T-Rex?
    -Zorba, "The Veiled Male"

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    )O(
  • JermanatorJermanator Posts: 16,244 Senior Member
    I soooooo want them to resurrect the Irish moose.... so I can kill one.
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  • JayhawkerJayhawker Posts: 18,355 Senior Member
    zorba wrote: »
    How about a T-Rex?

    A large toothy lizard...Meh....but he probably tastes like chicken...
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  • zorbazorba Posts: 25,279 Senior Member
    Yea, but it would be an excellent choice for gangbangers everywhere....
    -Zorba, "The Veiled Male"

    "If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
    )O(
  • gunrunner428gunrunner428 Posts: 1,018 Senior Member
    zorba wrote: »
    Yea, but it would be an excellent choice for gangbangers everywhere....

    Maybe, maybe not. Chicago streets would be quite limiting to a predator the size of T-rex. Cool factor and intimidation off the charts, but them 'bangers know the territory and soon would be hiding in buildings either too high for the 'rex to get to or behind heavier walls.

    Now turn a pack of velociraptors loose, and I'd love to watch! I suspect even if gunfire became involved, the gangs would be hard-pressed to survive any encounter with a like number of raptors. And they're small enough to have all sorts of advantages in an urban environment!
  • zorbazorba Posts: 25,279 Senior Member
    You have a good point, and Velociraptors could be fun!
    -Zorba, "The Veiled Male"

    "If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
    )O(
  • BigslugBigslug Posts: 9,858 Senior Member
    As long as you're gene-splicing, I still like my plan better - hyperintelligent leopards with opposable thumbs.

    I went to see a dinosaur exhibit at a museum recently to catch up on the latest paleontology. It seems that the scientists now feel that the old dinosaurs are close enough to the birds we know that they repeatedly referred to birds as "modern avian dinosaurs" in the exhibit. I got a kick out of this - there's a certain machismo in being able to say you're cleaning your shotgun in preparation for the September 1st dinosaur opener.:jester:
    WWJMBD?

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  • samzheresamzhere Posts: 10,923 Senior Member
    On a fairly realistic basis, it would be a blast to re-create animals like the sabretooth or mammoth, and it's actually possible.

    Dinosaurs, probably impossible, as the DNA has degraded too much. Biologists have actually examined it (aka Jurassic Park) and there simply isn't proper DNA available. But more recent animals like from the sabretooth era, yeah.
  • zorbazorba Posts: 25,279 Senior Member
    samzhere wrote: »
    Biologists have actually examined it (aka Jurassic Park) and there simply isn't proper DNA available.
    So ya fill the gaps with frog DNA. What could possibly go wrong?

    Leopards with opposable thumbs - intelligent or not - scare the bejesus outta me!

    But the REAL question here is: Would said leopards shoot a .270?

    *HIDES*
    -Zorba, "The Veiled Male"

    "If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
    )O(
  • farm boyfarm boy Posts: 1,001 Senior Member
    zorba wrote: »
    So ya fill the gaps with frog DNA. What could possibly go wrong?

    Leopards with opposable thumbs - intelligent or not - scare the bejesus outta me!

    But the REAL question here is: Would said leopards shoot a .270?

    *HIDES*

    I know cougars that have moved beyond the .270. I think a leopards would too.
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  • zorbazorba Posts: 25,279 Senior Member
    farm boy wrote: »
    I know cougars that have moved beyond the .270. I think a leopards would too.

    Snort! :rotflmao:
    -Zorba, "The Veiled Male"

    "If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
    )O(
  • Big ChiefBig Chief Posts: 32,995 Senior Member
    The dinosaurs planned this, it has happened several times in the past. Look at all the "Lost Civilizations" superhighways/technologies unearthed in remote regions of the world. Every time we get too big/smart fer our britches and start playing God dabbling in stuff we shouldn't and get so far technologically advanced we create (recreate) something that eats us, almost wipes us out, sets us back to prehistoric times.

    A few million years from now, as man climbs his way back up from being driven back to caveman days he will dig up millions of laptops and scientific instruments and ponder who made it and what happened to them....AGAIN :jester::rotflmao::rotflmao:
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  • zorbazorba Posts: 25,279 Senior Member
    There's a lot of wisdom in your post there, Big Chief.
    -Zorba, "The Veiled Male"

    "If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
    )O(
  • bisleybisley Posts: 10,815 Senior Member
    I tend to favor the extinction theory that many, if not most of the pre-historic creatures were wiped out gradually by plague and insects. If that is correct, it seems inevitable that rejuvenating them from imperfect DNA samples found in chunks of amber would surely result in unexpected consequences, like new plagues and insect infestations.

    Of course, many of the prehistoric insect species survived, anyway, so maybe they would be a less well-adapted species, that would breed with present day insects and actually degrade their ability to survive.
  • orchidmanorchidman Posts: 8,435 Senior Member
    If they resurrect dinosaurs.........I am soooooooooo getting a T-rex or velociraptor as a pet.......
    Still enjoying the trip of a lifetime and making the best of what I have.....
  • JLDickmonJLDickmon Posts: 1,726 Senior Member
    zorba wrote: »
    So ya fill the gaps with frog DNA. What could possibly go wrong?

    alright.. I'll play that game...
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  • shotgunshooter3shotgunshooter3 Posts: 6,112 Senior Member
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  • dlkdlk Posts: 419 Member
    If you ask me the imbeciles running our governments today can barely keep the species we have from going extinct, what are they gonna do with more of them?
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  • KSU FirefighterKSU Firefighter Posts: 3,249 Senior Member
    dlk wrote: »
    If you ask me the imbeciles running our governments today can barely keep the species we have from going extinct, what are they gonna do with more of them?

    That's obvious, tax them.
    The fire service needs a "culture of extinguishment not safety" Ray McCormack FDNY
  • orchidmanorchidman Posts: 8,435 Senior Member
    That's obvious, tax them.

    After first taking their guns away..............
    Still enjoying the trip of a lifetime and making the best of what I have.....
  • Dr. dbDr. db Posts: 1,541 Senior Member
    zorba wrote: »
    So ya fill the gaps with frog DNA. What could possibly go wrong?

    Leopards with opposable thumbs - intelligent or not - scare the bejesus outta me!

    But the REAL question here is: Would said leopards shoot a .270?

    *HIDES*

    The question is would the coyotes have thumbs. I understand that a .270 is an adequate coyote rifle.
  • zorbazorba Posts: 25,279 Senior Member
    JLDickmon wrote: »
    alright.. I'll play that game...
    Ah yes, Dilophosaurus.
    -Zorba, "The Veiled Male"

    "If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
    )O(
  • TeachTeach Posts: 18,428 Senior Member
    While they're busy cloning extinct species, I wonder if they can find some DNA from a few Americans back when some of us still had some balls? It seems the whole country has turned into a bunch of dummycrap wimps!
    Jerry
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