@SquiffSquiff to Not The OnionEnglish • 2 days agoScientists aiming to bring back woolly mammoth create woolly micewww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square62arrow-up1409arrow-down15cross-posted to: science
arrow-up1404arrow-down1external-linkScientists aiming to bring back woolly mammoth create woolly micewww.theguardian.com@SquiffSquiff to Not The OnionEnglish • 2 days agomessage-square62cross-posted to: science
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•20 hours 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-square@scholarlinkEnglish3•8 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-square@CocodapuflinkEnglish3•8 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•7 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.
Drought resistant crops, heat resistant corals, and rot resistant bamboo, please.