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What's your stance on bringing back extinct species?
March 7, 2024 at 5:37 pm
Considering that they are planning to bring back mammoths what is your stance on all that?
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RE: What's your stance on bringing back extinct species?
March 7, 2024 at 5:51 pm
Given the shrinking habitats for most animals now extant, it seems like a silly exercise in what could be done. Can be, but should it be? Not in my opinion.
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RE: What's your stance on bringing back extinct species?
March 7, 2024 at 6:23 pm
(This post was last modified: March 7, 2024 at 6:25 pm by Anomalocaris.)
I am not in favor with two caveats:
1. The candidate had been a vital specie in a still existent but struggling ecosystem, and there is strong economic case to be made for restoring the ecosystem and doing so requires restoration of the lost keystone species.
2. There is very compelling reason to believe a extinct species by itself has potential for extraordinary economic value, such as certain plants may have important pharmaceutical uses,
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RE: What's your stance on bringing back extinct species?
March 7, 2024 at 6:35 pm
There’s no need to bring back extinct species - CGI is getting better all the time.
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RE: What's your stance on bringing back extinct species?
March 7, 2024 at 8:42 pm
(This post was last modified: March 7, 2024 at 8:45 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Mammoths could have a profound impact on the ecology and economy of appalachia and the midwest. They were the primary habitat creators and seed dispensers for a once vast forest of large fruit bearing trees and veggies where nothing but plain and scrub exist now. The trees, in particular, are only about 50 generations out from the loss.
I'm underselling it when I say that mammoths could save the fucking planet.
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RE: What's your stance on bringing back extinct species?
March 7, 2024 at 9:22 pm
If I'm in danger of being killed then pass.
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RE: What's your stance on bringing back extinct species?
March 7, 2024 at 10:04 pm
(March 7, 2024 at 9:22 pm)brewer Wrote: If I'm in danger of being killed then pass.
Dammit!
*makes other plans*
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RE: What's your stance on bringing back extinct species?
March 7, 2024 at 10:52 pm
(March 7, 2024 at 10:04 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: (March 7, 2024 at 9:22 pm)brewer Wrote: If I'm in danger of being killed then pass.
Dammit!
*makes other plans*
Was you plan to dress up as a furry?
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RE: What's your stance on bringing back extinct species?
March 7, 2024 at 11:24 pm
(March 7, 2024 at 10:52 pm)brewer Wrote: (March 7, 2024 at 10:04 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Dammit!
*makes other plans*
Was you plan to dress up as a furry?
Nope.
That's one derangement I don't have.
Anyway, don't dress at all if you're going to kill someone in a messy way.
Kill.
Shower.
Dress.
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