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Post by fabulousman on Jun 25, 2015 17:59:07 GMT
So, anyone here about the genetically modified chicken embryo from a while back? Someone had turned on a gene in a chicken that would let it grow a dinosaur's snout. They successfully had the embryo grow, but they killed it later for ethical reasons. Cool, huh? Chicken sized raptors biting at your ankles? www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPQwNE4OsIE |
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Post by fraseer on Jul 14, 2015 21:50:16 GMT
Ha thats so cool, shame they couldnt let it live wouldve been very interesting to see it. I found an article about it on the BBC. link |
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Post by gmf on Jul 31, 2015 23:56:07 GMT
Man. I feel like ethics hold us back sometimes.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2015 0:39:16 GMT
So, anyone here about the genetically modified chicken embryo from a while back? Someone had turned on a gene in a chicken that would let it grow a dinosaur's snout. They successfully had the embryo grow, but they killed it later for ethical reasons. Cool, huh? Chicken sized raptors biting at your ankles? www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPQwNE4OsIEHey I think the mammoth one is also doing the same thing. they found a nucleas or a embryo of a mammoth and is going to hatch it inside a elephant. |
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Post by lowry on Mar 16, 2016 21:39:54 GMT
The Mammoth revival program looks hopeful actually as we have masses of areas with the perfect enviroment for these Mastodon hybrids. Apparently all the Mastophants are going to be good for the enviroment as well as they disturb snow or something to allow new floral growth or something. Plus they then always have a backup herd of Elephantidai to save African Elephant populations with. So ethically, it's fairly sound. It doesn't out compete other creatures, it adds another level of safety on elephant conservation and there's plenty of the correct enviroment for it (so the whole 'but it won't survive' argument has had holes shot in it).
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Post by roadkill on Aug 19, 2016 18:32:17 GMT
So basically triggering a dinosaur gene in a chicken is deemed inhumane while polluting the atmosphere and causing a mass global warming is totally fine.
Yay humans!
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Post by Moopli on Aug 20, 2016 4:28:38 GMT
So basically triggering a dinosaur gene in a chicken is deemed inhumane while polluting the atmosphere and causing a mass global warming is totally fine. Yay humans! Deemed by who? You can always find people to be disappointed about, but really, where's the fun in that? More seriously, while I think the consensus here is that we'd agree with your sentiment, the kind of argument you're making isn't particularly logically sound or useful in discussion; unless you want to start an argument about politics which I'm sure you don't. |
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Post by timetraveler22 on Aug 20, 2016 13:32:30 GMT
I liked that idea. I used to want to be a geneticist, and I'd try to explain, giving a chicken genetic modifications to have a tail, fingers, and teeth won't make it anything different from a normal chicken instead of being a horrid killing machine(to be honest though chickens are really aggressive). But the project with the mammoth belongs to the Long Now Foundation for the Revive and Restore Project. They're working on reviving recently extinct species as well as genetically restoring critically endangered ones. The other big project is the Passenger Pigeon Revival which I am continually following up on.
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