SquiffSquiff@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoScientists aiming to bring back woolly mammoth create woolly micewww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square66fedilinkarrow-up1411arrow-down15cross-posted to: science@lemmy.world
arrow-up1406arrow-down1external-linkScientists aiming to bring back woolly mammoth create woolly micewww.theguardian.comSquiffSquiff@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square66fedilinkcross-posted to: science@lemmy.world
minus-squareSkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 day agoWhat do you want the geneticists to do? They are educated in their domain, you can’t just plop them into another field The applications of their work is likely plenty in medicine and bioengineering
minus-squarescholar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·14 hours agoI want them to stop pretending that resurrecting a cold adapted species into an ecosystem that is rapidly melting will do anything productive. If they want to be helpful they can work out how to engineer humans that can survive 40 degree heat and breathe co2.
minus-squareCocodapuf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·13 hours ago If they want to be helpful they can work out how to engineer humans that can survive 40 degree heat and breathe co2. That’s what they’re fucking doing by bringing back the mammoth… They’ll run when they’re ready, but right now they’re learning to crawl. Or to put it differently, let them cook.
minus-squarescholar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·49 minutes agoI was being sarcastic, I don’t want bio-engineered humans adapted for extreme heat, I want us to not let our planet get to that point in the first place.
minus-squareOccultIconoclast@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·12 hours agoDrought resistant crops, heat resistant corals, and rot resistant bamboo, please.
What do you want the geneticists to do? They are educated in their domain, you can’t just plop them into another field
The applications of their work is likely plenty in medicine and bioengineering
I want them to stop pretending that resurrecting a cold adapted species into an ecosystem that is rapidly melting will do anything productive.
If they want to be helpful they can work out how to engineer humans that can survive 40 degree heat and breathe co2.
That’s what they’re fucking doing by bringing back the mammoth…
They’ll run when they’re ready, but right now they’re learning to crawl. Or to put it differently, let them cook.
I was being sarcastic, I don’t want bio-engineered humans adapted for extreme heat, I want us to not let our planet get to that point in the first place.
Drought resistant crops, heat resistant corals, and rot resistant bamboo, please.