@SquiffSquiff to Not The OnionEnglish • 2 days agoScientists aiming to bring back woolly mammoth create woolly micewww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square62arrow-up1407arrow-down15cross-posted to: science
arrow-up1402arrow-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@scholarlinkEnglish3•5 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@CocodapuflinkEnglish2•4 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.
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.