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Sanctuary 4670 posts |
Nov 23, 2014, 10:28
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This looks good tonight on CH4 20:00 Can cloning bring mammoths back from extinction? This documentary follows a team of mammoth specialists and cloning scientists as they dissect the best-preserved mammoth ever found.
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Howburn Digger 986 posts |
Nov 23, 2014, 10:56
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When I saw the footage I suddenly thought about a very big casserole. And a very cosy pair of slippers.
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Vybik Jon 7717 posts |
Nov 23, 2014, 13:22
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What about a top-of-the-line draft excluder?
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Dave1982 83 posts |
Nov 23, 2014, 17:48
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Exactly what the Neanderthals thought ! : ) (You don't have very marked eye brows by any chance ?)
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Rhiannon 5291 posts |
Nov 24, 2014, 14:12
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I thought it was pretty outrageous how they were hacking away at it contaminating it left right and centre, drilling massive holes in it, then letting it go off etc. And you might say 'well that's how they do it in that country and it's their mammoth'. But it seemed awful. It reminded me of victorian barrow diggers, no thought to the information that might be got out of in the future if they just looked after the damn thing and kept it in the freezer. There's no way on earth that would have happened if it'd been discovered in this country. It was being 'wasted' - the best preserved mammoth anyone had found, being hacked about like nobody's business. But worse than that was that assinine american who wanted to build a sort of half mammoth half elephant 'to graze the tundra and solve global warming' (er how are you going to produce your 100,000 mamm-elephants when we've hardly any elephants even - and on the strength of the dna of one mammoth? you nutcase). And the korean dog-cloners were barely better, wanting to clone one because - because why?? because they could sell it to the highest bidder no doubt. And where is the poor thing going to live, it's not exactly adapted to most environments. Disappointing that the world is so full of twits. Poor bloody mammoth. I thought the whole thing was pretty bloody depressing.
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Sanctuary 4670 posts |
Nov 24, 2014, 15:31
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Rhiannon wrote: I thought it was pretty outrageous how they were hacking away at it contaminating it left right and centre, drilling massive holes in it, then letting it go off etc. And you might say 'well that's how they do it in that country and it's their mammoth'. But it seemed awful. It reminded me of victorian barrow diggers, no thought to the information that might be got out of in the future if they just looked after the damn thing and kept it in the freezer. There's no way on earth that would have happened if it'd been discovered in this country. It was being 'wasted' - the best preserved mammoth anyone had found, being hacked about like nobody's business. But worse than that was that assinine american who wanted to build a sort of half mammoth half elephant 'to graze the tundra and solve global warming' (er how are you going to produce your 100,000 mamm-elephants when we've hardly any elephants even - and on the strength of the dna of one mammoth? you nutcase). And the korean dog-cloners were barely better, wanting to clone one because - because why?? because they could sell it to the highest bidder no doubt. And where is the poor thing going to live, it's not exactly adapted to most environments. Disappointing that the world is so full of twits. Poor bloody mammoth. I thought the whole thing was pretty bloody depressing. Yes I have to agree and stopped recording it midway through the programme. It could have been done so much better and so much more professionally and with more compassion and respect shown. I've seen this 'gung-ho' approach before on living animals under sedation being operated on, let alone dead ones!!
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moss 2897 posts |
Nov 24, 2014, 16:44
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Agree entirely with Rhiannon, on a daily basis we see the stock of our wild animals obliterated by poachers, hunters and expansion of our world into theirs. I walked out when they started 'showing how clever' they were cloning dogs. Wretched science, this attitude look at us aren't we clever doing this made me sick. Poor mammoth torn to pieces in life and then in death. So they clone another one to wander miserably around in a world that will prod and pry them in some ghetto of an 'animal sanctuary'. Aren't we humans clever!
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drewbhoy 2557 posts |
Nov 24, 2014, 22:01
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Totally agreed. I thought it was pretty depressing stuff.
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Dave1982 83 posts |
Dec 13, 2014, 17:08
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Rhiannon wrote: I thought it was pretty outrageous how they were hacking away at it contaminating it left right and centre, drilling massive holes in it, then letting it go off etc. And you might say 'well that's how they do it in that country and it's their mammoth'. But it seemed awful. It reminded me of victorian barrow diggers, no thought to the information that might be got out of in the future if they just looked after the damn thing and kept it in the freezer. There's no way on earth that would have happened if it'd been discovered in this country. It was being 'wasted' - the best preserved mammoth anyone had found, being hacked about like nobody's business. But worse than that was that assinine american who wanted to build a sort of half mammoth half elephant 'to graze the tundra and solve global warming' (er how are you going to produce your 100,000 mamm-elephants when we've hardly any elephants even - and on the strength of the dna of one mammoth? you nutcase). And the korean dog-cloners were barely better, wanting to clone one because - because why?? because they could sell it to the highest bidder no doubt. And where is the poor thing going to live, it's not exactly adapted to most environments. Disappointing that the world is so full of twits. Poor bloody mammoth. I thought the whole thing was pretty bloody depressing. You have my sympathy. This was a shocking misuse of science, the sort of thing that brings it into disrepute. It would be far better if preventing present extinctions were attended to.
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