Interesting… and raises ethical questions!!

I find this genetic engineering things that humans like to do to be a self-correcting problem. Soon enough, we will bring back predators so tough and fast that they can eat humans while running. Once all the humans are eaten, then there is no more genetic engineering.
 
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There was a reason those species died off...and I doubt man had a lot to do with it. So I say leave them be in the fossil record.

Just because you can doesn't mean you should. All you have to do is look on social media for about 30 seconds and you see plenty of evidence for that.

Generally, I agree with you, but hear me out! What if you could take the 10 hottest women on the planet and use their genetic material to create a hot woman for every dude on the planet. Would you be in for it then? Would guys be less prone to violence if everyone had a hot woman? I think my gov tax money should go to a study to determine the outcome.

In all seriousness, some of this sounds good, but variety is the spice of life. If we somehow did start editing people, so to speak, to create a certain outcome and the materials used to edit had some kind of hidden defect that made all the offspring more susceptible to some kind of disease, then humanity would be taking itself out in short order because you are minimizing the natural mutations that may be helping our species avoid extinction. Seriously, it sounds cool to be able to do this and I’m all for everyone having their own hot sex slave, but it’s a bad idea. Haha.
 
The problem is everyone wants to bring back all these things and don't think about the fact that they eat tasty animals.

Idaho has already cratered its elk population by bring wolves back. We don't need some cheetah too.

I can assure you the mountain lions already kill enough elk and deer.
modifying grey wolves to be larger or stronger is one thing, but they will start working on humans...which they already did in china.
 
But the chimpanzees don’t get EBT cards.
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The problem is everyone wants to bring back all these things and don't think about the fact that they eat tasty animals.

Idaho has already cratered its elk population by bring wolves back. We don't need some cheetah too.

I can assure you the mountain lions already kill enough elk and deer.
It wasnt exactly idaho. It was at the federal level. Although the state leaders were wearing pink panties and unwilling to get radical to do more to stop it.
Now management has been transferred to the state level, and the wolf population has been brought way back down, although there are still too many. Even 1 is too many.

All along there was patriots who shoot-shovel-and shut up, otherwise it would have been even worse.

Now there are grizzlies in some idaho wilderness areas. Fish and game deny it and lie, but they are there and periodically more are placed here.
 
my personal,only,take is that i have no desire to see big cats,bears,sharks,orcas,barracuda,foxes,gators wiped out. i think the presence of carnivores is something that adds to the planet being a good place to live. i will say that feral cats,dogs and coyotes are a different subject. i am not a rancher,chicken worker or stock man so i understand there are other points of view. most large carnivores are probably doomed anyway.
i have seen the slaughter of sharks and it is just a sick and disgusting activity . this often comes from commercial fisherman who in my experience in FL are essentially criminal exploiters of a resource. basically corrupt gov supported economic poaching. i'd make it illegal planet wide if i had the power. of course,that would demand rational agricultural and live stock management. that will never happen.
this genetic work is fascinating but very scary. shows the ability to advance the singularity in new ways. i fear the tech will be used in ways that sci fi lit and movies have forecast many times
 
For some reason; I have a warm spot for wolves, and these are beautiful creatures. God gave us dominion over the animals - good and bad, it's manipulation of our own genome for harm that concerns me. Saw on Rogan one of the guys involved in raising and bottle feeding Romulus - they are being careful about disclosing location for fear of them being taken/taken out.
This same lab that did the wolves said they will have a woolly mammoth by 2028; maybe saber-tooth tiger and and short-faced bear maybe?
 
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The real issue is the advancement and acceptance of human genetic engineering that comes from the learning by way of these experiments. Customized babies, humans bred and modified for certain characteristics, etc.
They posit that is already happening in china, and we all know how that turns out.
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It wasnt exactly idaho. It was at the federal level. Although the state leaders were wearing pink panties and unwilling to get radical to do more to stop it.
Now management has been transferred to the state level, and the wolf population has been brought way back down, although there are still too many. Even 1 is too many.

All along there was patriots who shoot-shovel-and shut up, otherwise it would have been even worse.

Now there are grizzlies in some idaho wilderness areas. Fish and game deny it and lie, but they are there and periodically more are placed here.

There was a documentary work on the effect of re-introduction of wolves, it wasn't just about decimation of deer and elk but even affected flow of creeks and small critters.
 
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Sounds like all this is is genetically modified grey wolf made to LOOK like a dire wolf - beyond appearance it's still just a grey wolf, albeit a genetically modified one.

So, not a dire wolf brought back from extinction....
think you are right. don't look like renditions i have seen of dire wolves. whatever. gonna be another hot topic in places like this. that being the value and fun of the pit.
 
think you are right. don't look like renditions i have seen of dire wolves. whatever. gonna be another hot topic in places like this. that being the value and fun of the pit.
You've only seen artist's conceptions of dire wolves. Leaving the real/fake arguments aside, these are genetically identical to the extinct animals known as dire wolves, and that is how they looked as juveniles 12,000 years ago.
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Keep in mind these puppies are now the size of gray wolves and will continue to grow for another eight months. That said, they are not going to be anywhere near as huge as I've seen them often depicted.
 
You've only seen artist's conceptions of dire wolves. Leaving the real/fake arguments aside, these are genetically identical to the extinct animals known as dire wolves, and that is how they looked as juveniles 12,000 years ago.
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Keep in mind these puppies are now the size of gray wolves and will continue to grow for another eight months. That said, they are not going to be anywhere near as huge as I've seen them often depicted.

Just because they look the same doesn't mean they are the same.

Genetically modifying elephants to have hair and look like mammoths doesn't make them mammoths.

Cool nonetheless though.
 
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The problem is everyone wants to bring back all these things and don't think about the fact that they eat tasty animals.

Idaho has already cratered its elk population by bring wolves back. We don't need some cheetah too.

I can assure you the mountain lions already kill enough elk and deer.
Not in the east.

Release all that stuff here

Decimate the over populated disease carrying car crop and human destroying long legged rats
 
They need to round up the wolves and drop them off in downtown Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, and LA……maybe a few in Boise.
Exactly

“Fuck the ranchers / rural residents , the wolves were native “
Well fuck you too. Just cause they live in a concrete jungle doesn’t mean they should be exempt
 
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my personal,only,take is that i have no desire to see big cats,bears,sharks,orcas,barracuda,foxes,gators wiped out. i think the presence of carnivores is something that adds to the planet being a good place to live. i will say that feral cats,dogs and coyotes are a different subject. i am not a rancher,chicken worker or stock man so i understand there are other points of view. most large carnivores are probably doomed anyway.
i have seen the slaughter of sharks and it is just a sick and disgusting activity . this often comes from commercial fisherman who in my experience in FL are essentially criminal exploiters of a resource. basically corrupt gov supported economic poaching. i'd make it illegal planet wide if i had the power. of course,that would demand rational agricultural and live stock management. that will never happen.
this genetic work is fascinating but very scary. shows the ability to advance the singularity in new ways. i fear the tech will be used in ways that sci fi lit and movies have forecast many times
You should read about omega protein.

And I’m sure they ae workers compared to the slant eyes
 
No, they are the product of the editing of a handful of grey wolf genes (20 or so genes thought to be most responsible for the dire wolf morphology).
You are 98.8% the same as a chimp. A few things change and humans are here. The differences are small so , if it smells like a dire wolf, looks like a dire wolf , etc. , I will go ahead and say it's a dire wolf.
 
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