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re: Scientists want to resurrect the woolly mammoth. They just got $15 million to start
Posted on 9/13/21 at 8:00 pm to BowDownToLSU
Posted on 9/13/21 at 8:00 pm to BowDownToLSU
Just don’t let Newman anywhere around that thing.
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Posted on 9/13/21 at 8:02 pm to BowDownToLSU
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imagining a future where the tusked ice age giant is restored to its natural habitat.
Polar Bears finna eat.
Posted on 9/13/21 at 8:10 pm to BowDownToLSU
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imagining a future where the tusked ice age giant is restored to its natural habitat
Why? Why is this wanted? What does this accomplish? A Jurassic Park scenario, I can understand. But to just have herds of these roaming around in our modern world? That has no positives outcomes.
Posted on 9/13/21 at 8:24 pm to James11111
I'm 6'2". I stood underneath a mammoth in LA a few years ago and reached up and could not even touch the bottom of his tusks. Those things are huge. They would throw a polar bear like a toy top.
Posted on 9/13/21 at 8:25 pm to hojo
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Science: Let's bring back from extinction a land animal that was best suited for life during the last ice age.
Actually, bringing back mammoths would help settle down the permafrost therefore delaying global warming.
ETA: Scientists say creating hybrids of the extinct beasts could fix the Arctic tundra and stop greenhouse gas emissions
This post was edited on 9/13/21 at 8:28 pm
Posted on 9/13/21 at 8:27 pm to TheeRealCarolina
quote:Church and the team behind Colossal are adamant that the idea is not just to make one mammoth, or to make a zoo, but to release whole herds, so that the large grazing mammals can remake the Arctic tundra, which poses a real threat when it comes to climate change. As the permafrost melts, it will release huge volumes of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, into the air. But by knocking down dark, sunlight-absorbing trees, mammoths, (or even cold-adapted elephants) would transform the tundra into light-reflecting grassland that keeps the ground colder, locking in the methane and creating a lot of plant matter to lock up carbon, too.
Why? Why is this wanted? What does this accomplish? A Jurassic Park scenario, I can understand. But to just have herds of these roaming around in our modern world? That has no positives outcomes.
Posted on 9/13/21 at 8:28 pm to BowDownToLSU
They already have the surrogate mother:
Posted on 9/13/21 at 8:28 pm to jeffsdad
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I'm 6'2". I stood underneath a mammoth in LA a few years ago and reached up and could not even touch the bottom of his tusks. Those things are huge. They would throw a polar bear like a toy top.
A polar bear's diet includes a lot of dead carcasses. Plus there are also baby Mammoths. Im not suggesting that a Polar Bear would be inclined to take on a fully grown Mammoth.
This post was edited on 9/13/21 at 8:31 pm
Posted on 9/13/21 at 8:35 pm to TideSaint
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Actually, bringing back mammoths would help settle down the permafrost therefore delaying global warming. ?
From the article:
This is where our shaggy friends may come in. Mammoths and other large herbivores of the Pleistocene continually trampled mosses and shrubs, uprooting trees and disturbing the landscape. In this way, they inadvertently acted as natural geoengineers, maintaining highly productive steppe landscapes full of grasses, herbs and no trees.
Bringing mammoth-like creatures back to the tundra could, in theory, help recreate the steppe ecosystem more widely. Because grass absorbs less sunlight than trees, this would cause the ground to absorb less heat and in turn keep the carbon pools and their greenhouse gases on ice for longer. Large numbers of the animals would also trample snow cover, stopping it from acting like insulation for the ground and allowing the permafrost to feel the effects of the bitter Arctic winters. Again, this would, in theory, keep the ground colder for longer.
Haha ok
Posted on 9/13/21 at 8:39 pm to BowDownToLSU
We should make a bunch of them and find a way to use them in the military.
And have a group of soldiers who are each assigned to a wooly mammoth and they would be sort of connected as one.. Like in avatar.. And the soldiers would each have jetpacks..
The crazy thing is.. Everything except for being connected as one might be possible in 5 or 6 years.
And have a group of soldiers who are each assigned to a wooly mammoth and they would be sort of connected as one.. Like in avatar.. And the soldiers would each have jetpacks..
The crazy thing is.. Everything except for being connected as one might be possible in 5 or 6 years.
Posted on 9/13/21 at 8:52 pm to BowDownToLSU
Let's do it. $15 mil is pennies compared to what we spend now
Posted on 9/13/21 at 9:31 pm to BowDownToLSU
But, where they hell they gonna keep a wooly mammoth? And they gotta make a mate, right? So, just start creating species? Seems smart…
Posted on 9/13/21 at 9:34 pm to FenrirTheBeard
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But, where they hell they gonna keep a wooly mammoth? And they gotta make a mate, right? So, just start creating species? Seems smart…
We need woolly mammoths to keep humans in check.
Posted on 9/13/21 at 9:46 pm to BowDownToLSU
What could possibly go wrong?
Posted on 9/13/21 at 9:47 pm to HailToTheChiz
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Let's do it. $15 mil is pennies compared to what we spend now
Didn’t we give one of the frickistans $25M to study gender issues? I’d rather a couple mammoths than that stupid shite.
This post was edited on 9/13/21 at 9:55 pm
Posted on 9/13/21 at 9:52 pm to BowDownToLSU
Something tells me if this is successful, then they won’t be able to resist this…
Posted on 9/13/21 at 9:59 pm to MasonTiger
First…
I am disappoint that we are two pages in and no one has done this yet.
I am disappoint that we are two pages in and no one has done this yet.
Posted on 9/13/21 at 10:00 pm to BowDownToLSU
Yeah, sure....you start with a Mammoth and the next thing you know OweO is getting fricked by a horny Velociraptor.
Posted on 9/13/21 at 10:19 pm to BPTiger
A very dark roux.
Some other related articles say it will cross with elephants to enable the elephants to adapt to climate change.
AND, ahem, the mammoth tusks can tare up forests, and the resulting grasslands and lichens, etc. will slow down climate change. Not mentioned is the CO2 uptake by each tree is going to have to be offset by how many square miles of grasses? Not that grasses grow in far northern or far southern latitudes.
Have any of them addresses why there is methane in the permafrost, much less why its there as clathrates in cold ocean sediments?
Some other related articles say it will cross with elephants to enable the elephants to adapt to climate change.
AND, ahem, the mammoth tusks can tare up forests, and the resulting grasslands and lichens, etc. will slow down climate change. Not mentioned is the CO2 uptake by each tree is going to have to be offset by how many square miles of grasses? Not that grasses grow in far northern or far southern latitudes.
Have any of them addresses why there is methane in the permafrost, much less why its there as clathrates in cold ocean sediments?
Posted on 9/13/21 at 10:37 pm to Gorilla Ball
They're supposed to serve as a keystone species to help the tundra do that apparently.
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