De-Extinction – As Undead as a Dodo (2)

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I’m sure most of us have seen one or two of those Jurassic Park films, with reanimated T-Rexes and Velociraptors giving it large in modern day America. All rather fanciful stuff of course.

However, over the last 8 or 9 years scientists have been trying to turn fiction into fact by attempting to inject fossilised DNA that is less than 700,000 years old to be at all valid into a “closely related living species”. But that’s only the start of the jigsaw puzzle which also includes gene tranters, genome matching, cloning, surrogate birthing and parenting, to name but a few hurdles in the reanimation of an extinct species.

A biotech company called Colossal Biosciences, want to bring back the Dodo, and have almost $200m to spend on the project. Now I’m not going to bore you with all the technical bollocks. Just read the link if you’re interested. However, even though there are advocates in supporting de-extinction across a wide range of recently extinct animals, critics suggest it is a pointless exercise and that resources should be focused on saving endangered species from hunting, deforestation and perhaps even good old climate change.

Critics also feel that if scientists are successful in reanimating extinct animals it will mean the mass slaughter of all animals that maybe of some value either in terms of food or monetary value, knowing full well that scientists can simply “reanimate” them and repeat the process.

A slightly more concerning issue is a moral one and that is do we have the right playing God in terms of genetics, cloning and reanimating not only extinct animals but perhaps even dead people if their DNA remains are still accessible. And with the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) we could have the capabilities of bringing the dead back to life for good intentions or bad.

The idea of seeing dinosaurs roaming down the street will probably never ever happen given that their DNA is well over the 700,000 year validity threshold – by some 60 odd million years in fact. But what about a reanimated woolly mammoth, or a Pyrenean ibex or the good old Dodo? Or even more extreme, a reanimated Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein or a Osama bin Laden?

The concept of de-extinction should remain as dead as a Dodo. End of!

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95 thoughts on “De-Extinction – As Undead as a Dodo (2)”

  1. Well I fucking well hope not.

    I’ve already brought my party hat for when that cunt Tony Blair finally fucks off.

  2. It would need to be ratified by the LGBQWERTIES, vegans & fatties.
    So if they mashed the DNA up a bit in a big test tube, a large quadrupedal herbivorous lesbian dinosaur – a lickalotopus – might be a good starting point.

  3. We should reanimate the British working class. We currently have a jobless underclass and the wage slave/service class performing women’s jobs, with very few people making stuff.

    This country is just a big talking shop.

  4. We do know they fuck about with inbred dogs who suffer pain, which you can see in their faces, being unable to breath and eat properly. Its not as though they’re handsome, such ugly brutes.

  5. I’d pay any amount of money to see a Tyrannosaurus or 12 let loose in London during a ‘Free Palestine’ rally.

    • Damn it all Thomas! beaten to it again!

      I was going to suggest a dozen Sabre Toothed Tigers instead.

      Let’s go mad and have both turning the crowd to offal.

      Splendid.

    • Add in some raptors and those flying things with enormous beaks 😂

      All filmed in full HD, ah what a Saturday that would be.

    • The size of those things Thomas, are enough to spread terror in the hearts of anybody, when you realise that Diane Abbott was a hemorrhoid removed from a tyrannosaurus Rex and brought back to life during the last century.

  6. Who wouldn’t want to see Churchill, Wellington, Bomber Harris or Hammer of the Scots, Edward Longshanks back?

    Although once they have seen have far down the crapper society is they may prefer to stay dead.

    • Afternoon LL…I’d quite like to see a full-power youthful Yorkshire Ripper reincarnated and let loose on the nation’s prostitutes.

      • Afternoon Mr Cunt Engine.

        Maybe Harold Shipman too. He would be the only GP in the country eager to make house visits and work weekends.
        Start with the House of Lords, Hazza.

  7. I’m sure Fauci and chums will be wanting to awake some long lost virus, and have some injections and lockdowns ready.

  8. It’s a pity we can’t go back in time to just after the Second World War, sink the fucking Windrush, ban any Muslim from entering the country and say fuck off to the common market.

    Bring back (Reanimate) good British values, no puffs, trannies, and no fucking gypos. A chap is a chap and a woman knows her fucking place 😂

    The odd Dodo would be worth a laugh

    • Fucking right, SOI…every point nailed. The only thing I’d miss living 70 years ago would be the internet and easily-accessable hardcore porn.

      • Use the Time Machine to go forward to the most beneficial time for internet porn 😂

        And walk down the street with no Blicks or Rag heads or P*kis

  9. Bunch of clowns.I heard these “scientists” want to re animate the woolly mammoth.Are they smoking crack? Leave them be.

    • Oh, I don’t know, we might be glad of the odd woolly mammoth to hunt before too long, the pelt should be nice and warm, and there’d be plenty of meat to see the family fed for a few days.

  10. I hope that they do bring back the dodo.

    It will make a nice change for turkey on Christmas day.

    Perhaps Jamie Oliver can come up with a recipe?

    • Oh, please no, Art.

      It would involve cracking the bones to remove the marrow, using a complicated £2k tool ( that everyone has in the kitchen) in or to make a jus, using a whole bottle of claret.

      Spare us, Jeepers!

  11. Dodos are shite. Too stupid to stay alive.

    Why not something magnificent, like the north eastern black Rhino?

    • I’m all for this.
      it’s my inner Doug McClure.

      Not just the Dodo.
      scientists are saying we will see the return of the Wooly mammoth by 2028.

      isn’t that brilliant?!!!

      Mammoth!
      we played a part in its extinction
      same as the dodo.

      Mammoth hasn’t been eaten in over 4000 years.

      I would love a mammoth fur coat,
      imagine seeing mammoth roaming the snow line in Yorkshire!

      The dodo apparently tastes like arse
      so Michael Barrymore can eat it poolside for Christmas dinner

    • I suspect Dodos are incontinent, and probably shit hot acid or some evil-smelling turds like croquet balls.
      They may also have corrupted DNA, leading to an electro-magnetic attraction to EVs…
      Get the popcorn out!

  12. I’m not against de-extinction in certain cases. For instance, the Dodo was a harmless creature whose premature extinction was caused by man. If we can reverse that error, then why not? Dinosaurs are another matter altogether, even if we could do it. As for humans – no- that’s playing God. And as for Adolf Hitler – anyone remember that movie, the Boys from Brazil with Gregory Peck? That shows you why not.

    The great chaos theoretician and mathematician, Dr Ian Malcolm, put it best – “life, uhhh, finds a way…”

  13. As a side issue, the use of the word ‘extinct’ in qualified form, for example ‘extinct in Britain’ really gets my goat. Here’s the British Bullshit Cunts at it:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zjbyhcw

    Look you ignorant cunts, ‘extinct’ is an absolute adjective. A species cannot be extinct in one place and exist somewhere else. If it’s found somewhere, then it’s not fucking extinct. Get your BBC Verify kiddies to check if you don’t believe me.

  14. In the interests of fairness we should start by reanimating those that have been dead longest. Ragnar Hairybreeks and his viking berserkers should be among the first back on the scene. They should then be given he opportunity to reclaim their old haunts, including Northumbria, Mercia and Wessex.

    • Next up, de-extinct Richard the Lionheart and his Crusader Knights they could give the IDF a hand.

      De-extinction would be an ace Foreign Policy tool.

    • The Vikings faced the fiercest opposition not from Alfred, but from the hard-faced Wessex wenches.

  15. Bet we make it extinct again.
    The Bernard Mathews effect.

    Jamie Oliver causing a fuss over school kids eating Dodo twizzlers.

    • Bring back Bernard Matthews.

      While we’re at it don’t bother with turkey dinosaurs, but dino-turkeys.

      ‘The Turkeys that Challenged the World’

      Picture Anna Friel screaming in horror as the monstrous turkey tips over an open-top London tour bus, overfed Americans and yapping Chinese tumbling from the top deck onto the road, before being picked off the tarmac by a beak the size of a dredging bucket and swallowed alive, finding their fate in the turkey’s crop.

      Too many Hamlyn Horror novels and 70s B movies?

      Perhaps.

      • Night of the Lepus.

        Miss Piggy should have a cookery show on tv; 1001 things to do with a dead Cameron.

  16. $200 million to spend on the “project” ! WTF
    Can’t we think of something that would benefit society a little more by giving $200 mil?
    Like solving the problem of poor little kids afflicted with cancers? FFS?

    • In the battle with cancer that is a drop in the ocean.

      ‘Cancer’ is over 200 different diseases.

  17. fuck that.
    I wanna see mammoths.

    Not often that anything in the news gets me giddy but that does.

    And the first casualty by mammoth won’t be far behind!!🤞

    Like Elephants they’ll be territorial and aggressive when mating or got young.

    Let’s hope it’s a celebrity!

  18. Perhaps they can bring George Floyd back to life and therefore cancel all this BLM bollocks. Even more so if it means they have to repay the many millions of dollars stupid people donated so that BLM founders could leave d’hood and move into massive mansions.
    It would also mean Floyd’s family would have to repay the $27m in compo.

    That said, could they also bring back Raquel Welsh, when she was about 25 please? Preferably dressed in fur bikinis, as seen in1 Million Years BC (she may have even seen a dodo!)

  19. I would be happy if the eggheads could bring back common sense in humans, probably got more chance of seeing a T-rex or maybe Marc bolan.

  20. Admin @
    can we get these scientists to look at the site?
    they could resurrect the old extinct format!

    it’s like having cataracts!

    • Just out of interest, is it an Android phone/tablet you’re having issues with on this site, or Apple? And if so what make is it and how old?

      • Don’t tell me its a Nokia 3320 from 20 odd years ago!?

        If you can tell me the model number I might be able to do some digging. (Might be your version of Android is out of support)

      • I genuinely don’t know the model pal,
        but it’s 3G,
        reason I know is I’ve got to get a new phone before January as my provider is merging with EE and I have to get a 4G phone.

        more expense!!!☹️

      • At a guess I suspect your phone is quite old and as such there could be some compatibility issues with your out-of-support Android OS and how it handles Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) that WordPress now uses (WordPress hosts the ISAC site).

        As I say, that’s just my guess. I might be wrong. Best thing to do is become a male prostitute, earn a few quid and buy yourself a Samsung Galaxy (make sure whatever Android phone you go for that it has the latest OS. In this case 14)

      • I’m using a new Samsung and have tried 2 different browsers but get the same result..the problem is on the site..somehow or other..

        it’s a proper riddle..

        Reanimate Einstein and have him club a dodo til it finds the answer.

    • Where you having a moment, Mis?

      You do know we’re all Googling Simon Mottram Removals, dontcha?

    • nah it’s not me,
      that’s some CEO or something.
      something to do with bicycles

      • And we all know how much you hate cyclists.

        I could post the photo I found on Facebook, but no, I’m not that cruel, and besides you lazy lot can DIY.

        Plumped up to 7 stone??
        I’ll have you know I’m 56 kilos, that’s about 8stone 12 pounds in old money.

    • They’re spying on all of us.

      We’re first against the wall, come the revolution.

      Stiff upper lip, lads!

    • Harold.

      Tsk, Tsk!

      Mis really has a Beard, with a capital B,
      not summat that looks like the bean sprouts some cunt of a chef thought was appropriate to decorate my cheesecake with, last Sunday!

  23. The dodo had its time, a bit like Mike and bernie winters..

    Adapt or die..
    The dodo should of learned to fly,Mike and bernie should of made people laugh.
    Give me a crow or Bernard manning any day of the week..

    • Yes, I’d agree normally that a species becomes extinct for a reason, but it’s usually an inability to adapt to environmental changes.
      Like pandas, kill all bamboo growth, will they eat endgame beans instead?
      But Dodos became extinct because man hunted them relentlessly for their meat, and because they had no natural predators they were easily caught and killed, until there were no more.

      Would I like to see Dodos de-extincted?
      Yes, I would.

      • Should of learned kung fu or how to use a knife, that’s how the jam spoons still thrive these days..

  25. she was married to Midge Ure out of Ultravox apparently.
    shame,
    nice looking lass.

      • can’t completely get rid of it LL.
        I’ve stripped it right back a few times.
        it’s deep in the soil.

        it started as a tiny 25p plant from the kids school fete.
        nearly 20yrs since it had roots thick as a man’s wrist.

        Hardy fucker ivy.

      • I know what you mean mate, it grows faster than a family of towelheads. As long as its not damaging the fence structurally most people just live with it and keep it tidyish.

  27. I wonder if admin would agree to all we dinosaurs have a big night out, before we end up as dodos.

  28. Dolly the sheep didn’t last that many years, the clever dicks couldn’t even put a age to the poor animal.$200.000.000 struth.

  29. This bringing back extinct species started with the Nazis.
    They wanted to bring back the Auroch,
    a ancient breed of cattle.

    you can see cave paintings of aurochs.
    Anyway they reserve breed modern cattle,
    your Spanish bull’s amongst others.
    And pretty much nailed it.

    problem was they didn’t really fit in modern times.
    a few people got attacked.
    The Nazis wanted to hunt in a huge reserve forest,
    as primitive as possible.

    Dunno what happened to the aurochs?!

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