Operation Phoenix: science fiction or science fact?
Published: 16 June, 2009, 08:03
With the rapid progress of biotechnology and with more genomes being deciphered in full, scientists begin to speculate that someday we may be able to help bring extinct species back into existence.
Very Nice article!!!
I am praying that all the humans and government in each and every country make one law to not disturb wildlife and it's habitat. We humans must limit our population so the other non-humans can live in peace too. We must not be geedy and selfish any more... it is not making us totally happy with peace of mind, \rather it is making humans mad(insane) as one can see by the way the world is today. Not many humans are happy and well content, neither are governments. Living a reasonably simple life is much more pleasing. Humans must limit their population or everything will get so bad everyone will regret it and breakdown in tears, asking for help BUT IT WILL BE TOO LATE. This change will call for a lot of compassion, empathy, reasoning, wisdom. If insane humans ever think of toying with dna and animal embryo they JUST BETTER LEAVE WELL ENOUGH ALONE.
I seem to remember a story of a mastadon being born to an elephant through implanted sperm from the carcass of a male mastadon that was frozen in Siberia to a Female Elephant from India in 1943. Some of the researchers that started that experiment were from Nazi Germany, however were removed from the experiment when WW II began, none the less, I think the research ended up being successful. Mystery
I personally think it's a great idea to bring back extinct animals. Then we can farm them for food, hunt them for sport, kill them with pollution and make them extinct again.
Then we can bring them back and farm them for food, hunt them..............
I think over all it is a very bad idea to play with genetics. We all deplore GM Foods as nature was perfect to begin with, feeding life since beginning of time. Now we have Frankenfoods. Once they are released they will spread as it is out of man's power to contain life, no matter how well mankind is at destroying it. Second if we were to bring back recently extinct animals, you'd end up with unintentional support for poachers as they will have claims that they can be brought back and so on. They also talk about almost complete DNA strands and then they link them to what, an animal's embryo? So they'd be mix between two animals? So the animal wouldn't be 100% exact copy? Playing with these things are dangerous no matter our human curiosity. Of course all of us would want to see a real T-Rex, but the consequences of these actions would be very very bad.