What? You don't have to register. What are you talking about?
I'm more excited at the possibilities of what we learn from them than just watching them.
then I must be seeing things... (http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c262/BlackNMild2k1/you_must_be_a_registered_member_of_.jpg)
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Post by: Stogi on November 25, 2008, 03:14:31 AM
That's crazy. Is that firefox?
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 25, 2008, 03:21:35 AM
yep. should i try it in ie?
edit: wierd, you dont needto register in ie. good thing Firefox has a ie tab plug-in :D
i agree that this might be most useful, and a project that will quickly pay for itself, many times over.
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And if the genome engineers wanted to conjure up something actually useful:
THE BIOFUELIFER ANTI-ARRHENIUS. Svante Arrhenius would never have invented the greenhouse effect if he’d heard of this cycad plant. It gulped in carbon dioxide and methane through its leaves and exuded streams of high-octane petroleum products through its bark as a defense against beetles. Not only that, it had bright red leaves that were good to eat. Though some said they tasted a little like herring. Florida was once the home of this herbaceous panacea. Converting the entire state to a plantation of these palm trees could solve a lot of problems.
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Post by: KDR_11k on November 25, 2008, 04:17:04 AM
That isn't the point...The point is that we need to be doing more to prevent our own era's species from going extinct than to bring back old ones...
Or we could let them die out and then bring them back using the magic of science!
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Post by: Mario on November 25, 2008, 07:43:08 AM
Let's all just kill ourselves then, we'll be brought back by science one day.
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Post by: Spak-Spang on November 25, 2008, 09:08:17 AM
How long until the Animal Liberation Front or PETA bombs the zoo to release these "endangered animals" into the world, and how long until we have proven all scientists wrong about the behaviors of dinosaurs because we successfully clone one?
Come to think of it...I don't think I would go see living dinosaurs in a zoo...I watched the movie I know its a bad idea.
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Post by: Stogi on November 25, 2008, 11:59:59 AM
That's why you don't clone something dangerous first. You clone the dumbest most harmless animal first.
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 25, 2008, 12:03:35 PM
How long until the Animal Liberation Front or PETA bombs the zoo to release these "endangered animals" into the world, and how long until we have proven all scientists wrong about the behaviors of dinosaurs because we successfully clone one?
Come to think of it...I don't think I would go see living dinosaurs in a zoo...I watched the movie I know its a bad idea.
But what if we miniturize them all & give them an abandoned hawaiian island? or give them strips of open land along the border to give us 24 hour border patrol?
Imagine the new reality show: Border Patrol - Velofficeraptors on the Loose
I would watch it
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Post by: King of Twitch on November 25, 2008, 12:12:29 PM
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How long until the Animal Liberation Front or PETA bombs the zoo to release these "endangered animals" into the world
I was thinking they would need a new acronym first, like People for the Ethical Treatment of Formerly Extinct Terrestrial Archosaurian Reptiles (PETFETAP)?
They would have a field day protesting with this stuff, then one by one, picked off by a hungry pterodactyl
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Post by: EasyCure on November 25, 2008, 12:53:58 PM
How long until the Animal Liberation Front or PETA bombs the zoo to release these "endangered animals" into the world, and how long until we have proven all scientists wrong about the behaviors of dinosaurs because we successfully clone one?
I'm sure PETA and the Animal Liberation Jerks would be eaten by whatever animal they save. In fact, letting them in to the wild could destroy the regular wildlife, so it'd be a generally bad move. Also, being proven right/wrong would be the whole point. Being wrong just gives you more to learn, and isn't that what science is all about?
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Post by: Stogi on November 25, 2008, 01:58:23 PM
Exactly. Being proven wrong is just as valuable as being prove right.
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Post by: UltimatePartyBear on November 25, 2008, 02:37:34 PM
Well they'd need ancient DNA from dinosaurs right? Can they get that from fossils?
If they have preserved skin, hair or bone marrow they can. most likely from a dinosaur that was trapped in a tar pit, or an insect encased in resin (tree sap)
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Post by: Stogi on November 26, 2008, 11:28:58 AM
DNA only lasts about 50,000 years.
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Post by: EasyCure on November 26, 2008, 11:41:55 AM
Here that folks, keep those tube socks well preserved if you plan on having your next-next-next etc of kin clone you.
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Post by: Stogi on November 26, 2008, 11:49:02 AM
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DNA lasts only 50,000 years or so, an eyeblink of evolutionary time, but genome engineers will eventually get so good at their job, one can surely assume, that they won’t need actual DNA; they will be able to calculate the DNA sequence of any known species by working backward from the genomes of their living descendants. Birds, for instance, evolved from dinosaurs. So put a few nips and tucks in a falcon’s genome and you could doubtless re-create that of a velociraptor. Let’s try resummoning these creatures from their rest in the fossil beds of extinction:
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Post by: RABicle on November 26, 2008, 12:02:55 PM
Some day, the Outback will bring out a side of mammoth ribs and tip my car over...
Nah, they get stringy when they get big. no RAB, that's asparagus. No! That's everything.
I'm looking forward to Sabretoothed tigers myself, but only so I can summon one like a power ranger.
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Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on November 26, 2008, 01:01:19 PM
LOL
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Post by: Mario on November 28, 2008, 07:32:30 PM
I reckon they'll just end up creating completely new things with all this DNA matching and guessing. Now I know why Nintendos R&D budget has gone up dramatically with no new console in sight, they are making Pokemon real.
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Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on November 28, 2008, 09:17:50 PM
I want to evolve some Tales monsters.
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Post by: Stogi on November 29, 2008, 05:56:05 AM
I reckon they'll just end up creating completely new things with all this DNA matching and guessing. Now I know why Nintendos R&D budget has gone up dramatically with no new console in sight, they are making Pokemon real.
Mmmmmmmm.....Pikachu stew *drools*
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Post by: nickmitch on November 29, 2008, 03:12:43 PM
