Re: Resurrecting the mammoth

  RonO wrote:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/09/world/woolly-mammoth-elephant-stem-cells-scn/index.html

Another article about bringing back extinct species.  The claim is that they can help restore the arctic habitat, but that is nuts.

Shit. Damn. Fuck.
I actually agree with you!

One of the reasons that the megafauna species went extinct was due to the fact that their habitat was greatly reduced in a cycle where the habitat that they liked was around for a hundred thousand years, but they had to survive 20,000 to 30,000 year periods when their habitat was greatly reduced.

I don't think they're serious.
One reason why I have such impatience with stupidity is because
when it's obvious to me, I sometimes (usually) think it has to
be obvious to others.
      "If I could figure it out, they had to as well."
No, I'm pretty certain that anyone claiming that repopulating
the world with Mammoths is going to return us to a non-existing
time of climate stability knows they're talking shit.
Best guess here?  They're trying to hitch a ride on the Gwobull
Warbling wagon. "AGW" is to science what your dog's Alpo farts
are to French cuisine. The climate has NEVER been stable during
the entire history of the genus Homo, and a warmer planet would
be a shit ton better than cooling. Then there's the comparison
of the Holocene to itself AND DECLARING THAT IT DOESN'T MATCH!
Or even how none of the solution actually map to a decrease in
CO2, or that CO2 isn't a so called "Greenhouse Gas" anyway!
So, Gwobull Warbling is utter bullshit, but it is lucrative.
You want the university positions? You want the grant money?
You want public support? Tie your work to Gwobull Warbling.
Look. You want investors?  You have to be labeled as "Pro
Gwobull Warbling Science" by the scammers. Then Apple can
invest $300 million into your project before crowing about
how oh so "Environmentally Conscious" they are as they cake
the planet in mind-altering lithium, choke our landfills in
ridiculous amounts of packaging & already raised "Planned
Obsolescence" to an art form, ensuring the MAXIMUM
consumption of rare earth minerals. But, hey, they pumped
$300 million into a cloning scheme so they're "Earth
Friendly."
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