Men with high testosterone levels tend to be irrational negotiators.Nooooh, surely not!
No, really, there's been a study. See Harper's Findings this month. Researchers in Siberia are hoping to clone a mammoth. Yep, found an icy one with an eyeball and some hair. Now, what, boys and girls, are we going to do with the (stress: the) mammoth?
UPDATE:
1. Stress it to see whether it rampages like its descendants: elephants. (very likely)
2. Tour it about with Ringling Bros. (and also 1)
3. Interbreed it with Someother Huge Mammal for kicks, or agri-research.
4. Give small children rides on it. (and also 1)
5. Re-create it, stick it in Alaska, study it to learn about fckall, and then kill it.
6. Clone lots of mammoths and offer them in canned hunts in Texas.
7. Clone lots of mammoths, up-armor them, and send them through the hot spots in Baghdad.
8. Grow it, kill it, stuff it, stick it in the Smithsonian.
9.Put it in a room with some unarmed, high testosterone men and teach them about negotiation.
10. Let it live at my house, because that. would. be. so. cool!
In any case, this will not go well for the mammoth.
Dear Science, The Mammoth is extinct. Has been for a long time. This might be a good thing. Stop this and figure out how to save what is still here and which probably ought not go extinct just because the Aquarians couldn't really get it together. -- Thank you, Planetary Inhabitant
2 comments:
Through cloning research and techniques and the scientific process, we may actually learn more about how to "save what is still here"
True, and interesting. On one hand, I see the purely scientific value and range of applications for what could be learned in cloning the mammoth. On the other hand: I just wonder, why the mammoth? Why clone something that might not be able to live here anymore, and that would be alone, which is not good for herd animals, which mammoths were? Could make a herd of them, but then you have a herd of mammoths, and then what? So, I get it, and I don't get it.
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