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withouthands
05-20-2008, 07:38 AM
Here is a quote from a news article I was just reading.

"In a world first, scientists have extracted a gene from the extinct Tasmanian tiger and successfully inserted it into a mouse embryo.

It is the first time a gene from any extinct animal has been brought back to life inside another living creature."

Those two paragraphs explain it all, really. I thought this would make a good subject to discuss.

I think this is pretty amazing, bringing an extinct animal back to life. In the same article, it mentioned that even dinosaurs could be resurrected if placed in the correct embryo.

What do you think? Scientific break-through? Or disrespect to the balance of nature? Or even both.
pakman21
05-20-2008, 08:15 AM
They just infused the tiger's genome into the mouse's, they didn't really bring it to life.

Now, we they get the damn tiger to walk the earth again, then I'll be impressed.
Pollo
05-20-2008, 08:44 AM
Give it say... three days, and all evidence of it, the creature itself and everyone involved in it will be killed off by angry "pro-life" activists.
junkinthetrunk
05-20-2008, 02:13 PM
Got any links to prove this?
kamekai
05-20-2008, 02:45 PM
Give it say... three days, and all evidence of it, the creature itself and everyone involved in it will be killed off by angry "pro-life" activists.


Wtf @ pro-life activists being against bringing extinct animals back to life? :S
Tuomas
05-20-2008, 02:52 PM
As stated before, they put some DNA in a mouse, but it'll still be a mouse, won't it? It won't grow to be a tiger.
Oh no! We've brought the Tasmanian Mouse back to life!
TotalReview
05-20-2008, 02:53 PM
Well, humans are overpopulating the world so I don't think it would be fair to an animal to come back to life and then put in an animal testing facility.
Tuomas
05-20-2008, 02:54 PM
Well, humans are overpopulating the world so I don't think it would be fair to an animal to come back to life and then put in an animal testing facility.
Haha. We need to ressurect some raptors to unleash on New York, Tokyo, and China. xD
Slowhand
05-20-2008, 03:51 PM
Give it say... three days, and all evidence of it, the creature itself and everyone involved in it will be killed off by angry "pro-life" activists.
Quite a big assumption there. Not all pro-lifers are Christians, you know...
kamekai
05-20-2008, 03:56 PM
Haha. We need to ressurect some raptors to unleash on New York, Tokyo, and China. xD


Randall Munroe is turning in his sleep. x.x
drsirquinn
05-20-2008, 03:57 PM
Just for the record, has anyone here actually WATCHED jurassic park??
just kidding. It would be awesome if that works. PET MAMMOTHS!
Tuomas
05-20-2008, 04:01 PM
Just for the record, has anyone here actually WATCHED jurassic park??
just kidding. It would be awesome if that works. PET MAMMOTHS!
Actually, that is a prime example of why people should be extremely careful with these experiments. You provided a good point.
TotalReview
05-20-2008, 04:12 PM
Actually, that is a prime example of why people should be extremely careful with these experiments. You provided a good point.

If dinosaurs somehow came back, we would not even know about it. The government would keep it a secret until the "right time".
Espo
05-20-2008, 07:47 PM
Retarted fish frogs.
Kero
05-20-2008, 07:49 PM
....that's not resurrection. That's gene splicing and/or manipulation. Two different scientific achievements there.
Long time no see, Espo. YGen is back up, BTW.
Rascal
05-20-2008, 07:53 PM
We need to resurrect Tyrannosaurus Hives was an amazing album,everyone should download it.
Dookeymuffin
05-20-2008, 09:29 PM
They just infused the tiger's genome into the mouse's, they didn't really bring it to life.

Now, we they get the damn tiger to walk the earth again, then I'll be impressed.

Yeah it's a form of gene mutation, it's actually a mutant. Half Tasmanian Tiger and half Mouse right? So technically it is an abomination.
pakman21
05-20-2008, 09:33 PM
Bah. We can handle dinosaurs. And this overpopulation bull**** will fix itself, our food supply will get crowded out, we'll go to war where a billion or two people will die, earth saved.

Or the asteroid in 2029 will kill most of us. LOL.
TheMBros
05-20-2008, 10:13 PM
We need to resurrect Tyrannosaurus Hives was an amazing album, everyone should download it.

Fixed, your post is now more preferable.
TheUnknownFox
05-20-2008, 10:38 PM
If dinosaurs somehow came back, we would not even know about it. The government would keep it a secret until the "right time".

And with how our goverment is the right time would be AFTER the head lines in the newspapers say "Man eaten by raptor"
withouthands
05-21-2008, 03:21 AM
Alright, it will be a little mouse tiger thingy. A cross breed, kind of.

But imagine, maybe one day you sick XGen folk could have real life furries.
Hatori
05-21-2008, 04:05 AM
That would be totally awesome!
withouthands
05-21-2008, 04:56 AM
No it wouldn't. It would be ****ed up.
Hatori
05-21-2008, 07:09 AM
Agreed then xD
tbscifie
05-21-2008, 07:28 AM
LOL@everyone forgetting that the article never said the tiger was back, just one of its cells.

anyhoo, huge breakthrough
Complexity
05-21-2008, 02:39 PM
I sure hope those scientists know what they're playing with. They have to be really careful once they start cloning. They could alter the eco system like never before.
Pollo
05-21-2008, 02:57 PM
http://xkcd.com/87/

XKCD always has the answer.
Tuomas
05-21-2008, 03:04 PM
http://xkcd.com/87/

XKCD always has the answer.
Hahaha, nice one Pollo.