I remember reading about this in 5th grade. 25 fucking years ago. I’ll believe it when I see it…
just like nuclear fusion, it was 10 years away 10 years ago, it’s 10 years away now and it will be 10 years away 10 years from now
What’s happening with the fusion then?
But now we have AI! Both and many more problems will be solved any time now…
You know what AI needs the most long term? Nuclear fusion…
That’s crazy cause I think it’ll be here tomorrow
The world they lived in is long gone along with the food they ate and the rest of their species. It seems almost cruel to bring them back.
Well pumpkins and avocados still exists at least and apparently they were grazers.
Nah. It’s still the same place. They died out within the time frame of completely modern humans.
It’s worse when you consider the state of the world and the warming. They’d have about 20 sq\km of land capable of supporting them and they’d have to share it with those psychos, polar bears.
Not that long gone—the last relict population on Wrangel Island only died out about 4000 years ago. That’s (barely) within historic time. There are probably islands in the Canadian and Siberian Arctic that could still support them (and have no or few human inhabitants).
I see two big issues. First of all, not all knowledge among elephants is transmitted genetically, and I expect mammoths were the same. Who will the new ones learn from? They’ll have to redevelop best practices for dealing with their environment from scratch.
Secondly, global warming. This seems like about the worst possible time to bring back an ice-age-adapted critter. We’d be better off transferring the effort spent on this project into de-extincting the thylacine, a more recent loss which doesn’t have that specific issue.
I’m fairly certain they are working on the thylacine as well?
Different group, I think, and not as close to success. The thylacine has a better chance at long-term survival if we do bring it back, though—it isn’t an ice age creature, and it was surviving despite competition from other creatures in a similar niche until humans started aggressively hunting it down.
I think the mammoths have a really good shot actually. Siberia seems like it will be perfect for them
Not advocating for bringing back the mammoth, but this is a dangerous line of argument.
With climate change and ongoing mass extinctions, many current species are or will soon be in the same situation that re-introduced mammoths would be—and you could use the same argument to say that trying to preserve them is cruel so we should kill off any current species facing environmental stress.
They were here pretty recently, their food is still here. It was cruel that we extincted them.
It’s not that long gone. There were still mammoths around when the pyramids were built. Plus there’s still huge swaths of tundra and taiga that they could live on, with a lot of the same plants, even if it’s quite a bit warmer.
In the grand scheme of things the pyramids were built relatively recently, but I’d still consider it quite long ago
Measured in human life it’s long ago. measured at universal scales, it was nothing.
A good measurement for human timescales is the age difference between a child and their grandfather (~50 years, basically one generation of oral tradition).
The mammoths died out 80 grandfathers ago.That’s an interesting unit of measure for sure. I do get what you’re saying–that’s sort of the limit to where some knowledge can reach.
I have an idea: Mammoth burgers
Worked in the docudrama “the Flintstones”
Nothing bad will happen, as long as they spare no expense.
It’s all fun and games until you’re being chased down in your Jeep by a dodo.
The lesson there is: Spare no expense on your IT budget!
And everyone knows not to mess with the raptor fences
Your financial problems are not my concern!
This is cool, but are they really the beast we need to bring back? Where will they stay?
Who’s we?
They’ll probably stay in zoos or preserves.
I hope they have put a substantial amount of thought into potential problems that could arise. (Not that it will actually be like JP)
It’s amazing that people are still wasting resources on this kinda stuff while the planet burns.
To be fair, I think research on mammoth cloning started a good while ago and, if scientific research is anything like a start-up (spitballing here, I have no clue), doing a massive reorientation mid-process ends up costing more in the long term.
Still MFW we’re cloning woolly mammoths on a boiling planet. Lol. Lmao, even.
Some degenerate gonna fuck that mammoth!
I really don’t wanna upvote this, but I can’t not
So, like totally the same feeling! 🤣🤣🤣
I don’t know, bringing back some of the species that this burning caused to go extinct - instead of the celebs mentioned in the article - would be nice.
Not everyone can work specifically on the one thing you find most pressing. Some people are hairdressers, some people work in a supermarket, some people are learning about genetics, some people are actors.
The platform you’re posting on isn’t essential for saving the planet, should it still exist? The servers it uses create pollution.
I’ve said this a million times before, but if we’re playing gods anyway, can’t we make them dog sized also?
I would totally get one or maybe two.
If they’re like their cousins you don’t want a pet that smart. Especially with a trunk. Good luck mammoth proofing your house.
Yeah you say that until you get a tusk in the crotch
They’ll be wearing stylish pool noodles on the tusks to minimize furniture and gonad damage.
Or we create them with softer tusks. Maybe that’s better, the. They’ll also be worthless to poachers.
I don’t want to live in a world that has wooly mammoths with floppy tusks. It just seems wrong.
What about that trunk though? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Even dog sized they’d probably weigh like 200Kg. Mammoths be thicc
Welcome to 1000 years ago park! 🏞️ We got 🐘 🦥 but bigger!
Everything outside of cities should be a nature reserve and we should clone extinct megafauna to put in zoos
Enjoy eating rocks, I guess?
Vertical farms to reduce wasteful agriculture practices
Maybe in 100 years, with how underfunded research in vertical farming is.
If we could just remove every parking lot and replace all major roads with trains, we would free up so much mammoth habitat.
But why? We have no iceage anymore.
Obviously for the local petting zoo
Plus, mammoth burgers
“We have no idea what happens next.”
Scientists: we know almost exactly what will happen.
Yet another thing we have entire books and movie series about what will go wrong, and probably how. Yet somehow a way will be found to make it go wrong in exactly those ways.
