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| Deleted User | Jul 10 2007, 06:36 PM Post #1 |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6284214.stm![]() A baby mammoth unearthed in the permafrost of north-west Siberia could be the best preserved specimen of its type, scientists have said. I find this very exciting. |
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| Aimee Wilbury | Jul 10 2007, 06:56 PM Post #2 |
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STOP CHANGING THIS ADMINS
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Its...scary! |
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| Sandra | Jul 10 2007, 08:21 PM Post #3 |
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What an astonishing find. |
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| Jeep Girl | Jul 10 2007, 10:14 PM Post #4 |
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Makes you wonder if they'll be successful in cloning one.? <_<
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| ogoble | Jul 10 2007, 10:19 PM Post #5 |
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Neat!
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| Rose | Jul 11 2007, 12:25 AM Post #6 |
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Well, here's another clue for you all, the Walrus was Paul...
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What a great discovery! |
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| Dorfliedot | Jul 11 2007, 03:04 AM Post #7 |
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That is so wonderful. Poor thing. |
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| JeffLynnesBeard | Jul 11 2007, 09:49 AM Post #8 |
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Am I the only one here who is seeing a dead elephant? No? I'll get my coat. |
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| MannyDavvi | Jul 11 2007, 11:12 AM Post #9 |
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Cloning the poor animal (If possible) would only be cruel. In my opinion |
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| Deleted User | Jul 11 2007, 12:05 PM Post #10 |
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They wouldn't dare!
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| Dorfliedot | Jul 11 2007, 04:31 PM Post #11 |
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I think cloning one would be neat. why, not. they look same as a elephant. I think over kill played a part of them being killed off. |
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| Deleted User | Jul 11 2007, 05:12 PM Post #12 |
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Why not? Where do I begin? If it's inability to survive wasn't enough, what about all the biological repercussions? I would call it selfish to start cloning for our own entertainment but our environment and existence would be endangered as well. Bad things happen when people meddle. The world changes constantly and things either adapt or perish. You can't just smack a dinosaur or saber tooth in the middle of the 21st century, especially if crossbreeding were to enter people's minds which I'm sure, if they're willing to go as far as cloning, it would. I know they're awesome creatures but as you can obviously tell, they're still with us in the form of an animal we call an elephant. The reason they don't look like they used to is because they cannot. They have developed to fit the current state of things as everything must, including us. We have to accept the course of nature and have a little faith in it. DNA is being collected from critically endangered animals in the foreseeable event that they become extinct due to hunting, deforestation, etc. I reluctantly support that effort so long as the animals' reintroduction occurs immediately after it's demise and that it be only a response to human stupidity and not the winds of change. Anything later than that I think we'd have to count our losses and learn from our mistakes. It does concern me that if it's successful we might start to think we have an excuse to continue destroying everything in our path but, frankly, it's for our own good. I hope that is realized one day. |
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| BlueMolly2009 | Jul 11 2007, 05:16 PM Post #13 |
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Have you seen the movie Jurassic Park, Dotty? Just the thought of them cloning anything makes me very nervous. Nature doesn't need to be cloned, someone could clone something for something bad. Cloning this mamouth doesn't seem right, IMHO.
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| beatlechick | Jul 12 2007, 12:58 AM Post #14 |
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Fiona, nicely said. We should never meddle in areas that could really damage an already sensitive ecological structure. We may have scientist who can do all kinds of things but why tamper with mother nature. There is only one nature that is already on the brink of being destroyed. Why do we think that just because we know the dna factor, that we have to build our own living model? Why? Seeing that wooly mammoth is really very very cool and quite the find. You look at the picture and you can almost get the feel of what that animal was about to do before death interrupted it's cycle. |
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| iscreamer1 | Jul 12 2007, 01:48 AM Post #15 |
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"Some scientists hold out hope that well preserved sperm or other cells containing viable DNA could be used to resurrect the mammoth lineage. Despite the inherent difficulties, Dr Agenbroad remains optimistic about the potential for cloning." Looks like they are already planning to. |
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| Jeep Girl | Jul 12 2007, 02:48 AM Post #16 |
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That's what I was thinking... :wacko: |
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| Dorfliedot | Jul 12 2007, 04:50 AM Post #17 |
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there not like those dinosaurs. They once roam with man. and man killed them for there tusk. |
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| Dorfliedot | Jul 12 2007, 04:52 AM Post #18 |
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Like I said, mammoth are not dinosaurs. They once roam with humens. and were killed off for their tusk.. |
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| beatlechick | Jul 12 2007, 06:23 AM Post #19 |
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Dotty, actually the mammoths were not around humans that much and apparently a good deal of them died towards the end of the last ice age. I think the Jurassic Park reference has more to do with cloning than with the dinosaurs. |
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| harddaze | Jul 12 2007, 06:47 AM Post #20 |
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Too late to complain - it's already been cloned... we are going to need these mammoths to replace cars after the world runs out of oil...![]() |
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| JeffLynnesBeard | Jul 12 2007, 09:22 AM Post #21 |
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Well said, that professor.
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| Deleted User | Jul 12 2007, 12:14 PM Post #22 |
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I think if they get started on this, there will be a huge social backlash.
Thank you, N.
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| Aimee Wilbury | Jul 12 2007, 12:16 PM Post #23 |
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Isn't a mammoth just a very hairy elephant? |
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| Dorfliedot | Jul 12 2007, 03:19 PM Post #24 |
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Yes, and a little bit larger. |
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| Dorfliedot | Jul 12 2007, 03:26 PM Post #25 |
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well, I heard that japan made Godzilla and he destroyed part of their town. There been reports that they stop at making them in the 1980's for the bidget was getting to much for them to re- bulid. They dedided to instead make a 8 million man who be faster them the six million man that the American made. |
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| Deleted User | Jul 12 2007, 03:46 PM Post #26 |
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I wonder which way they will taste better, roasted or barbecued? |
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| Sandra | Jul 12 2007, 11:05 PM Post #27 |
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Exactly. Well said Fiona.
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| Dorfliedot | Jul 12 2007, 11:15 PM Post #28 |
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I think you are wanting a Bar-B- Que tony. |
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| Dorfliedot | Jul 12 2007, 11:16 PM Post #29 |
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Wrong! If people never meddle into things half cures in the world would have not been found. |
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| Sandra | Jul 12 2007, 11:29 PM Post #30 |
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I take your point Dorothy but in this case nobody is looking to find a cure for anything it would just be meddling. |
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| beatlechick | Jul 13 2007, 01:11 AM Post #31 |
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Tony, you say that with a picture of 3 vegetarians right underneath. Dotty, there are some things that man should never touch or meddle in. One of them is cloning. Scientists were supposed to have had the knowledge on human cloning a long time ago. You know who one of the subjects they were to clone was supposed to be? Adolf Hitler! Now you want us to start cloning? |
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| Deleted User | Jul 13 2007, 01:27 AM Post #32 |
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I am all for cloning extinct animals. Perhaps they hold the answers to some of our problems. Imagine these mammoths could have the secret cure for cancer in their ivories. Whose to say? Besides the meat might very well taste great and be less filling! |
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| beatlechick | Jul 13 2007, 02:04 AM Post #33 |
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Tony you are still talking about meat with 3 vegetarians in that picture in your signature. Yes I know Lisa Simpson is not real but for an animated figure, she is a vegetarian. |
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| beatlechick | Jul 13 2007, 02:07 AM Post #34 |
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How can anyone be for cloning? It is like when you breed an animal, you don't necessarily get the characteristics you want. With each new generation, the original dna suffers and breaks down. What was once a docile animal could turn out to be a wild predator down the line. |
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| Dorfliedot | Jul 13 2007, 04:07 AM Post #35 |
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yeah, I understand all your points too. I just always thought mammath as cute.
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| JeffLynnesBeard | Jul 13 2007, 10:16 AM Post #36 |
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You know what else are cute? Those ickle Raptors.
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| Deleted User | Jul 13 2007, 01:04 PM Post #37 |
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Don't get upset. That's what he wants.
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| iscreamer1 | Jul 13 2007, 03:13 PM Post #38 |
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I know it's wrong but you've got to admit it would be fasinating. And no I didn't see Jurassic park but I will be going on the ride at Universal Studios next week!
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| Dorfliedot | Jul 13 2007, 06:37 PM Post #39 |
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No there not. They look like lizards |
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| beatlechick | Jul 14 2007, 08:35 AM Post #40 |
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Cuteness is in the eye of the beholder. I like lizards and snakes, they have a beauty about them as do frogs. |
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| MannyDavvi | Jul 14 2007, 08:35 AM Post #41 |
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If they were to clon the animal, where would they put it? Large part of its ecosystem is long gone, they'd have to place them in some lonely cage re-creating its environment. Didn't it live in cold climate areas during the ice age? The way things are going right now, the world lacks sufficiently large areas to sustain an animal of such proportions. Where would they put them? Canada? Alone and in Canada....... Great fun....... Sorry my Canadian fellows, I'm just joking but you get my point
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| Dorfliedot | Jul 14 2007, 09:58 AM Post #42 |
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Caurse they do. I love snakes too. but, I had nice big lizard. female mind you. who happen too like males then women bite me on the face for no reason.. |
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