What's your stance on bringing back extinct species?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Still waiting for a physics violation.

Boru

dissipation of waste heat is a phenomenon governed by physics, a large creature weighing at least several hundred pounds being able to dissipate the heat generated by producing fire able to melt Castlegate its gut without cooking the creatures organic components and turning it into carbon dioxide is the violation of physics

Why would the fire be in its gut? I think of it more like a controlled belch, with the methane not igniting until it exists the mouth. And it’s not out of the question for an animal’s skin to be heat-resistant enough to bear up to the residual heat from a flame moving away from it.

Boru

[Angrboda]

[Anomalocaris]

dissipation of waste heat is a phenomenon governed by physics, a large creature weighing at least several hundred pounds being able to dissipate the heat generated by producing fire able to melt Castlegate its gut without cooking the creatures organic components and turning it into carbon dioxide is the violation of physics

Why would the fire be in its gut? I think of it more like a controlled belch, with the methane not igniting until it exists the mouth. And it’s not out of the question for an animal’s skin to be heat-resistant enough to bear up to the residual heat from a flame moving away from it.

Boru

if the methane is expelled through its throat and ignited in its mouth the problem would be the same.    the inside of its mouth would be subjected to radiant heating from 3000 degree kelvin flame.

[neil]

I say do it, but perhaps cautiously.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Why would the fire be in its gut? I think of it more like a controlled belch, with the methane not igniting until it exists the mouth. And it’s not out of the question for an animal’s skin to be heat-resistant enough to bear up to the residual heat from a flame moving away from it.

Boru

if the methane is expelled through its throat and ignited in its mouth the problem would be the same.    the inside of its mouth would be subjected to radiant heating from 3000 degree kelvin flame.

I made a typo - should be ‘exits’ the mouth, not ‘exists’. The methane wouldn’t ignite until it was outside the mouth. I’m routinely inches away from an open propane flame without getting burned.

Boru

[Ravenshire]

Why would the fire be in its gut? I think of it more like a controlled belch, with the methane not igniting until it exists the mouth. And it’s not out of the question for an animal’s skin to be heat-resistant enough to bear up to the residual heat from a flame moving away from it.

Boru

if the methane is expelled through its throat and ignited in its mouth the problem would be the same.    the inside of its mouth would be subjected to radiant heating from 3000 degree kelvin flame.

You're basically claiming methane flares are physically impossible. There are tens of thousands of them on the Bakken that would like to argue the point.

[The Grand Nudger]

jesus fucking christ.

[Astreja]

Organisms exist in ecological niches. Very often they go extinct because that niche is no longer available. I think it's ill-advised to bring a species back just because it's possible. Where is it going to live? Cruel to just stuff it into a zoo enclosure, and if you let it run wild it'll either die out again or unbalance the local ecosystem, displacing other species.

[The Valkyrie]

Let's wipe out the ones we still have, first.

[Anomalocaris]

Let's wipe out the ones we still have, first.

would be more fun to bring back some first, that way there would be more to wipe out.