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OMG. We may actually see dinosaurs in our lifetime yet

Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 7:46 am
by Cool Blue
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.

Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 7:49 am
by +JuggerNaut+
looks like chicken:

Image

Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 10:53 am
by SplishSplash
Lies, I tell you.

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

Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 10:56 am
by SplishSplash
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.)

Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 12:31 pm
by Ryoki
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)?

Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 2:12 pm
by denzii
Jurrasic park all over again

Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 2:32 pm
by Psyche911
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.

Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 4:30 pm
by Massive Quasars
I read about this yesterday, very cool.

Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 4:38 pm
by shadd_.
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.

Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 4:41 pm
by HM-PuFFNSTuFF
tastes like chicken, I hear

Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 4:51 pm
by shadd_.
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?

Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 5:39 pm
by Fang
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:

Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 3:01 am
by tnf
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?

Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 3:03 am
by tnf
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.

Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 3:40 am
by Scourge
tnf wrote: I wonder what the Ark smelled like?
There ain't enough febreze on the planet to kill that smell.

Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 3:59 am
by Scourge
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.

Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 1:40 pm
by DooMer
We can kick dinosaurs asses this day in age.

Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 1:55 pm
by andyman
DooMer wrote:We can kick dinosaurs asses this day in age.
just feed em a poison dart frog and they are history....again....

Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 1:58 pm
by DRuM
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'.

Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 5:49 pm
by Pext
Image

"bla... chaos theory and stuff"

Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 3:05 am
by losCHUNK
how do T rex's hump ?

wouldnt the tale get in the way >?

Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 3:45 am
by Canis
Long penile units?

Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 3:49 am
by Nightshade
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.

Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 4:17 am
by tnf
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.

Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 4:24 am
by Nightshade
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: