De-extinction

[dragonlover1]

I watched a very interesting documentary going back about 12 months ago now where this person, some highly acclaimed and respected something or other stated matter of factly that Australia is already grossly overpopulated and that this country alone can currently only comfortably accommodate 10 million people, less than half the current populatioin. I think he's bang on the money too given that 2/3 of the continent is virtually uninhabitable. So many people go on about how Australia has the least people per square kilometer in the world and that we can easily take in millions of refugees etc... there's a reason for that... because how many of us live in the Simpson desert? The coastlines of Australia are packed like sardines and the vast interior is sparsely populaed.

Australia is overpopulated.

you've got that 100% Kev,I don't always agree with what you say but right on the money here,1 thing I've always thought is instead of pumping our waste out to sea and killing the creatures who live there,why don't we pump it into the desert to try and recreate a fertile place.It's a scientific fact that green spaces attract more rain so why don't we create more greenery?

 

[Imported_tuatara]

oh buh then it wonh worrk!!must be endangrd mammal horn!!

 

[Foozil]

Animals like megalania will never be introduced back into the wild if they were to be de-extinct-ed. They also wouldn't look much like what they used to because they would have to get a related varanus species gravid so it would pretty much be megalania x another varanus species, but I'm not sure how it would work with reptiles.

 

[Sheldoncooper]

Like rhino horn... what a joke... grind your bloody fingernails up and eat it, it's keratin, the same stuff! #chinesemedicinefail

U seen some of them toe nails, they aint using there own. There's are like emu claws

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[Imported_tuatara]

tha'ts not how it works, it'd be the semen and embryo of an artifically created megalania, so it would use other species to feel in the gap, the birther wouldn't change ti's look.

 

[Flaviemys purvisi]

oh buh then it wonh worrk!!must be endangrd mammal horn!!

Or unicorn horn... that was later discovered to be from a narwhal... lol Looking back at history, you gotta laugh!

 

[Imported_tuatara]

also, their toe nails look more effective than cassowaries at kicking a$$

 

[Foozil]

But thats how they would artificially create the megalania in the first place

 

[Imported_tuatara]

yes, they'd combine the dna. but that doesn't mean with that species, and even then, the mother of the artificially created embryo doesn't have anything to do with the looks of the offspring which is the megalania, as it's not the mother, just used to birth the animal.

 

[Flaviemys purvisi]

There's one thing that should definitely be brought back from extinction... maybe then the world wouldn't be so effed up!

 

[Foozil]

ok yeah you're right

 

[Wally]

Humans have done, and continue to do the worst by this planet. There are plenty of species currently on the verge of extinction.

Why would we want to bring things back if we can't look after what we currently have in our world?

 

[Flaviemys purvisi]

Humans have done, and continue to do the worst by this planet.

I agree, the rate at which deforestation is occurring is mind blowing.

 

[Foozil]

So that we can work out what went wrong with those and figure out how to prevent extinctions happening again.

 

[Imported_tuatara]

oh look a tree that will help and does have over a hundred things living on it? let's chop it down and every other tree here that provide home for thousands of creatures to make room for like 10 selfish dbags, makes sense, ywp!

 

[Sheldoncooper]

We will only kill them again

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[Foozil]

Would we? Surely after the first time scientists and zoos would breed them and get some healthy populations going. A lot of frog species went extinct very soon after first being discovered, but now that we know what killed them we can prevent it.

 

[Sheldoncooper]

To bring something back that has become extinct in the last 50 years is a different story to an animal that existed over 2 million years ago. Global temperature being one, its survival is based on its DNA.
Survival is a part of evolving and i would think missing out on 2 million years of evolution could have a fair say in its survival

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[Tobe404]

Animals like megalania will never be introduced back into the wild if they were to be de-extinct-ed. They also wouldn't look much like what they used to because they would have to get a related varanus species gravid so it would pretty much be megalania x another varanus species, but I'm not sure how it would work with reptiles.

Apparently Lacie's are the closest living relative to Megalania.

It would be nice if we could bring animals back that became extinct because of our intervention...

Not sure how i feel about others that were wiped out from the World/Nature/Evolution itself though.

 

[Imported_tuatara]

i'd think komodos would be, but lacies are the closest thing to komodos currently soo not too far fetched.