by Metacelsus on 5/16/23, 9:04 PM
See my take on this here:
https://www.readcodon.com/p/extinctionBasically, it will be quite challenging and I think they are over-promising on the timeline. They are also not even going to make a wooly mammoth, but rather a hairy elephant.
by ZachWick on 5/16/23, 8:46 PM
The fantastic documentary “We Are As Gods” about Stewart Brand spends a considerable amount of time on this topic as he is involved in many of these efforts.
https://www.weareasgods.film/
by local_crmdgeon on 5/16/23, 7:58 PM
This is all very nice and they’ve made lots of announcements and raised a lot of money.
Do it. Do something. Stop talking and deliver.
by uticus on 5/16/23, 7:39 PM
Apart from if this should happen, what is the thought process for choosing what to "de-extinct"? Marketability (large mammal vs tiny insect excites the populace more, leading to funding)? Viability (proximity to existing species genome means less work filling the gaps, quicker to market)? Biological disruption (some species easier to control than others)? Other?
Also, what geopolitical entity is willing to host the results? For example wooly mammoth might really appeal to tropical-based group, but must be hosted in sub-arctic region.
by neets on 5/16/23, 8:48 PM
What about all those other species of Hominid?
by salynchnew on 5/16/23, 7:43 PM
Weird that the Long Now project has basically made no progress on its own de-extinction efforts since 2012.
However, it seems like they have made some worthwhile contributions in terms of conserving populations of existing wild pachyderms (a more useful undertaking in general, imho) by partially sequencing the elephant herpes virus, etc.
https://reviverestore.org/projects/woolly-mammoth/history-of...
by joshuahedlund on 5/17/23, 12:52 AM
Does this provide any new information or updates to any of the previous posts about Colossal’s mammoth plans over the last several years? It just sounds like a press release for Nvidia to highlight their connection to it. (I get a little more cynical every few months I see something about Colossal without any actual updates…)
by nerpderp82 on 5/16/23, 7:47 PM
Where would it live? I assume like many mammals, it needs to be raised and taught by its parents. Are they gonna drive up to the Canadian border and just dump it off?
by pvaldes on 5/16/23, 9:07 PM
I thing that mammoth is a really poor choice for de-extinction. I would wish to be wrong, but is not a really well matured plan.
by satvikpendem on 5/16/23, 7:50 PM
I wonder how it would taste, given our ancestors' hankering for their meat.
by m3kw9 on 5/17/23, 12:33 AM
They should go big and do a dinosaur