De-extinction – the science of reviving species that have been lost – has moved from the realm of science-fiction to something that is now nearly feasible. Some types of lost mammals, birds or frogs may soon be able to be revived through de-extinction technologies.
But just because we can, does it mean we should? And what might the environmental and conservation impacts be if we did?
Phys.org: Deciding whether to bring back extinct species
There's the standard Jurassic Park rhetorical which starts every bumfuck article when they're not too busy writing complaints about Daylight Savings Time.
De-extinction technology is a poofy cop to cover the fact their resurrections are only partial and come through merging an extinct genome with that of some current species. It works great for movies but there's no evidence anywhere of conservation the state won't immediately destroy so these resurrection efforts really don't mean anything anyway.
Ed: I'm sick of your negativity!
Thanks for that fresh air and sit the fuck down until you get the point.
There's no point in playing a genetical version of "Dancing with the Stars" since there are much more important problems to solve in genetics and in music. One of the problems is the sell-off of federal land since who knows how many endangered creatures will be threatened mortally by that.
Ed: what's the problem with DWTS?
It just makes stars; it doesn't make musicians. Almost all are just singers and most sing someone else's lyrics. It's the same with politicians reading speeches someone else wrote. They're just mouthpieces.
Ed: so the geneticists who talk of resurrection are just wannabe stars too?
Roger that. However, the geneticists can at least read the musical notation.
Ed: scientists aren't musicians!
Rubbish. The secondary MOS for any scientist is frequently music.
Note: MOS = Military-Oriented Specialty and the letters are burned into the ROM for some of you.
Here's another tingle of that nature which geezers may remember in the Army mantra that your secondary MOS is always 11B30, Infantry. That's all except for flag officers who send their secretaries instead. (I didn't look that up; some things you never forget.)
The reason this tiresome science keeps returning is puzzling but possibly there's a vested interested. As a willful state wipes out this creature or that one, it permits the sop, "Don't worry about a thing since we can just resurrect them if necessary."
Ed: no chance for seeing liberals again?
Zero. We're extinct.
Ed: you're not dead
You don't know that. Scheduling articles to appear in the future is no trouble at all and I do it all the time.
Ed: are you really this hostile with people?
I'm never this hostile with people; I just don't like them. I have located some humans but, for the rest ... (shrug). If there were evidence of sentience in their interests, I might like them, but that isn't apparent when they ignore whatever they deem untruthful even when it's not. You can see that in the article just now about early Australians living below current sea level. They won't read it.
Ed: they might like you if you didn't fuck with them
I might like them if they were not such thickwits (shrug). I do respond to charm and can bring quite a bit myself but the net doesn't convey charm, only boobies.
Speaking of boobies, if you're not clear about a thickwit, watch the happy weather from a TV forecaster.
Ed: the thickwit is her?
Negatory. The thickwits are those who watch.
For the humans I have located, if anything happens to Ithaka, the primary link to it will be modified to point to another one somewhere else. If you know My Duck Soup then you know how that works and you won't have to change anything to discover the new one. I don't want to renew the license for My Duck Soup because I don't want to spend the money but I plan to do it in coming days expressly for that purpose.
Ed: is that single message why you started writing again?
Yep. It's for Mystery Lady most of all.
I thought it was obvious I would create a blog called someasshole.blogspot.com but that name was already taken so fall back here and do it via My Duck Soup instead. There mustn't be any smoking hole.
I did try putting something into the Ithakanov blog but that would only play to the idiotic Red-baiting going on just now and I want no part of it.
Ed: wtf are you doing?
Looking for peace, man, but that will only come with those who want it too.
But just because we can, does it mean we should? And what might the environmental and conservation impacts be if we did?
Phys.org: Deciding whether to bring back extinct species
There's the standard Jurassic Park rhetorical which starts every bumfuck article when they're not too busy writing complaints about Daylight Savings Time.
De-extinction technology is a poofy cop to cover the fact their resurrections are only partial and come through merging an extinct genome with that of some current species. It works great for movies but there's no evidence anywhere of conservation the state won't immediately destroy so these resurrection efforts really don't mean anything anyway.
Ed: I'm sick of your negativity!
Thanks for that fresh air and sit the fuck down until you get the point.
There's no point in playing a genetical version of "Dancing with the Stars" since there are much more important problems to solve in genetics and in music. One of the problems is the sell-off of federal land since who knows how many endangered creatures will be threatened mortally by that.
Ed: what's the problem with DWTS?
It just makes stars; it doesn't make musicians. Almost all are just singers and most sing someone else's lyrics. It's the same with politicians reading speeches someone else wrote. They're just mouthpieces.
Ed: so the geneticists who talk of resurrection are just wannabe stars too?
Roger that. However, the geneticists can at least read the musical notation.
Ed: scientists aren't musicians!
Rubbish. The secondary MOS for any scientist is frequently music.
Note: MOS = Military-Oriented Specialty and the letters are burned into the ROM for some of you.
Here's another tingle of that nature which geezers may remember in the Army mantra that your secondary MOS is always 11B30, Infantry. That's all except for flag officers who send their secretaries instead. (I didn't look that up; some things you never forget.)
The reason this tiresome science keeps returning is puzzling but possibly there's a vested interested. As a willful state wipes out this creature or that one, it permits the sop, "Don't worry about a thing since we can just resurrect them if necessary."
Ed: no chance for seeing liberals again?
Zero. We're extinct.
Ed: you're not dead
You don't know that. Scheduling articles to appear in the future is no trouble at all and I do it all the time.
Ed: are you really this hostile with people?
I'm never this hostile with people; I just don't like them. I have located some humans but, for the rest ... (shrug). If there were evidence of sentience in their interests, I might like them, but that isn't apparent when they ignore whatever they deem untruthful even when it's not. You can see that in the article just now about early Australians living below current sea level. They won't read it.
Ed: they might like you if you didn't fuck with them
I might like them if they were not such thickwits (shrug). I do respond to charm and can bring quite a bit myself but the net doesn't convey charm, only boobies.
Speaking of boobies, if you're not clear about a thickwit, watch the happy weather from a TV forecaster.
Ed: the thickwit is her?
Negatory. The thickwits are those who watch.
For the humans I have located, if anything happens to Ithaka, the primary link to it will be modified to point to another one somewhere else. If you know My Duck Soup then you know how that works and you won't have to change anything to discover the new one. I don't want to renew the license for My Duck Soup because I don't want to spend the money but I plan to do it in coming days expressly for that purpose.
Ed: is that single message why you started writing again?
Yep. It's for Mystery Lady most of all.
I thought it was obvious I would create a blog called someasshole.blogspot.com but that name was already taken so fall back here and do it via My Duck Soup instead. There mustn't be any smoking hole.
I did try putting something into the Ithakanov blog but that would only play to the idiotic Red-baiting going on just now and I want no part of it.
Ed: wtf are you doing?
Looking for peace, man, but that will only come with those who want it too.
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