OMG. We may actually see dinosaurs in our lifetime yet

Post by **Cool Blue** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 7:46 am

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/TECH/scienc ... index.html

I'm speechless. Of course this does NOT mean they've cloned or can clone dinos, but having this kind of tissue which should provide perfect DNA. Which means it's only a matter of time.

And you know they'll do it. Somewhere. The Americans for sure.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 7:49 am

looks like chicken:

Post by **SplishSplash** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 10:53 am

Lies, I tell you.

The Bible says Earth is only 6000 years old, so this is just another hoax from the liberal media.

Post by **SplishSplash** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 10:56 am

Actually, I'm pretty worried that they mess up the samples they have by comparing them to ostrich bones and shit.

Get on with the cloning, motherfuckers! If y'all can do sheep, anything is possible!

(BTW: What is this bullshit about "Yeah, we can clone sheep, but humans are still too difficult!" - Everything I learned about biology tells me there shouldn't be any difference at all.)

Post by **Ryoki** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 12:31 pm

SplishSplash wrote: (BTW: What is this bullshit about "Yeah, we can clone sheep, but humans are still too difficult!" - Everything I learned about biology tells me there shouldn't be any difference at all.)

I've wondered the same thing.

Did they overcome that age problem yet (where a cloned sheep has the genetic age of the original, dying years before it's fellow sheep)?

Post by **denzii** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 2:12 pm

Jurrasic park all over again

Post by **Psyche911** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 2:32 pm

denzii wrote:Jurrasic park all over again

One can only hope. It would get rid of a few million of the stupid fucks I see every day.

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 4:30 pm

I read about this yesterday, very cool.

Post by **shadd_.** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 4:38 pm

Ryoki wrote:
SplishSplash wrote: (BTW: What is this bullshit about "Yeah, we can clone sheep, but humans are still too difficult!" - Everything I learned about biology tells me there shouldn't be any difference at all.)
I've wondered the same thing.

Did they overcome that age problem yet (where a cloned sheep has the genetic age of the original, dying years before it's fellow sheep)?

pretty sure they still die young.

Post by **HM-PuFFNSTuFF** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 4:41 pm

tastes like chicken, I hear

Post by **shadd_.** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 4:51 pm

HM-PuFFNSTuFF wrote:tastes like chicken, I hear

didnt some russian scientists try that with a 10,000 year old wooly mammoth found frozen in the ice?

Post by **Fang** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 5:39 pm

SplishSplash wrote:Lies, I tell you.

The Bible says Earth is only 6000 years old, so this is just another hoax from the liberal media.

LOL good one, for a few seconds i thought you were serious :icon22:

Post by **tnf** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 3:01 am

It still needs to be independently verified by other scientists. But could have profound implications on things like our understanding of fossil formation.

DNA analysis, if possible, would be very interesting...take a look at the relationship between birds/dinos/reptiles/etc....

Did Noah bring dinosaurs on the Ark? I saw a beautiful painting that said he did...

Amazing guy, that Noah. I wonder what the Ark smelled like?

Post by **tnf** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 3:03 am

SplishSplash wrote:Actually, I'm pretty worried that they mess up the samples they have by comparing them to ostrich bones and shit.

Get on with the cloning, motherfuckers! If y'all can do sheep, anything is possible!

(BTW: What is this bullshit about "Yeah, we can clone sheep, but humans are still too difficult!" - Everything I learned about biology tells me there shouldn't be any difference at all.)

It's not that its too difficult. It is that the process with sheep isn't necessarily without risks for the cloned embryo and the eventual health of the sheep. There are still issues scientists who have no moral problem with cloning have with that. But the technology of cloning any mammal will be pretty similar.

Post by **Scourge** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 3:40 am

tnf wrote: I wonder what the Ark smelled like?

There ain't enough febreze on the planet to kill that smell.

Post by **Scourge** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 3:59 am

On topic, I think that it would be pretty cool to clone dinos. But I also think that it would be a mistake. Eventually something would go wrong. As soon as they could clone them, they would probably try to mess around with the genes, etc. and voila, disaster. I know I'm sounding like a fiction story, but I really think that it would be a bad idea.

Post by **DooMer** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 1:40 pm

We can kick dinosaurs asses this day in age.

Post by **andyman** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 1:55 pm

DooMer wrote:We can kick dinosaurs asses this day in age.

just feed em a poison dart frog and they are history....again....

Post by **DRuM** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 1:58 pm

Wait till those cloned tyrannosauruses and brontosauruses watch the tv and see that iraq and america are gonna blow up the world. The dino's wil be like 'oh fuck not again'.

Post by **Pext** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 5:49 pm

"bla... chaos theory and stuff"

Post by **losCHUNK** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 3:05 am

how do T rex's hump ?

wouldnt the tale get in the way >?

Post by **Canis** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 3:45 am

Long penile units?

Post by **Nightshade** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 3:49 am

tnf wrote:
Amazing guy, that Noah. I wonder what the Ark smelled like?

Your imagination.
Did you know that there's a Noah legend from Babylonian culture in the Tale of Gilgamesh? Predates the bible by a loooooooong time.

Post by **tnf** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 4:17 am

Nightshade wrote:
tnf wrote:
Amazing guy, that Noah. I wonder what the Ark smelled like?
Your imagination.
Did you know that there's a Noah legend from Babylonian culture in the Tale of Gilgamesh? Predates the bible by a loooooooong time.

You realize I was kidding, right? And I know all about the Babylonian creation myth, as well as the other parallels....the Jahvist and Elohist traditions...all in an attempt to be able to battle creation science types on their own terms when I teach evolution. I find an extensive Biblican knowledge can be quite useful, because these types often don't even really understand the book they are so confident in referencing.

Post by **Nightshade** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 4:24 am

I wasn't sure, you are one of those Jesus types, after all.
I found the Gilgamesh thing quite interesting. Heard it on NPR on the way home the other night. Also, Gilgamesh was an ass bandit. :lol: