Slog - Comments on Science Is Cool http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/science_is_cool In Jurassic Park dinosaurs were cloned by way of mosquitos fossilized in amber. Turns out the theory may not have been too crazy after all: Several well-preserved mammoth carcasses have been found in the permafrost of Siberia, and scientists estimate that there could be millions more. Last year a Canadian team demonstrated that it was possible to extract DNA from the specimens, and announced the sequencing of about 1 per cent of the genome of a mammoth that died about 27,000 years ago. With access to the mammoth's genetic code, and with frozen sperm recovered from testes, it may be... Copyright 2007 Tue, 15 Aug 2006 10:47:11 -0800 Tue, 15 Aug 2006 14:59:47 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by jerod in oly To quote Jeff Goldblum (Jeff Goldblum):

"I want my money back. And I want angels to give it to me. And pixies to count it out, and a gnome or a hobbit or an elf to sleep at the foot of my bed, and have - I just want them all over my backyard. But no matter what happens with any of that, I DO want my money back."

]]> jerod in oly http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/science_is_cool#c446624 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/science_is_cool#c446624 What the Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:06:41 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle not only that, but it turns out stem cells can be used to repair your retinas (news today at uwnews.com).

just imagine having your very own sabre-toothed manimal!

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/science_is_cool#c446639 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/science_is_cool#c446639 What the Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:17:23 -0800 Comment by Laura Continuing the conversation from the movie: "Dinosaurs eat man. Woman inherits the earth."

]]> Laura http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/science_is_cool#c446653 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/science_is_cool#c446653 What the Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:31:07 -0800 Comment by Superfurry Animal To quote Jeff Goldblum:

"I forgot my mantra."

]]> Superfurry Animal http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/science_is_cool#c446654 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/science_is_cool#c446654 What the Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:35:36 -0800 Comment by N in Seattle In Jurassic Park dinosaurs were cloned by way of mosquitos fossilized in amber. Turns out the theory may not have been too crazy after all: Welllll.... Maybe if you don't want to worry about three or four orders of magnitude in the timeline.

The TimesOnline article talks about tissue from creatures that died 27,000 years ago, and about currently-living animals that are closely related to them. But dinosaurs were wiped out 65,000,000 years ago, and their closest living relatives are, most likely, birds.

65 million years is more than two thousand times more distant from today than 27 thousand years.

Bradley, if you're going to title your entry "Science Is Cool", you might make a better case if you weren't displaying such innumeracy.]]> N in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/science_is_cool#c446669 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/science_is_cool#c446669 What the Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:53:06 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Personally, I'm far more worried about hybrid Neanderthals. Cheney's an early experimental version, you can see how badly the first attempts worked.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/science_is_cool#c446679 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/science_is_cool#c446679 What the Tue, 15 Aug 2006 12:12:41 -0800 Comment by him @N: I don't understand what you are complaing about?

lol @ Will

]]> him http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/science_is_cool#c446693 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/science_is_cool#c446693 What the Tue, 15 Aug 2006 12:33:16 -0800 Comment by TAR ART RAT Dr.Ian Malcom (Jeff Goldblum):
"Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
But mixed breed mammoth-elephant babies would be sooooo cute!...

]]> TAR ART RAT http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/science_is_cool#c446714 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/science_is_cool#c446714 What the Tue, 15 Aug 2006 12:53:45 -0800 Comment by socialarsonist "What you call discovery.... I call a rape of the natural world."

]]> socialarsonist http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/science_is_cool#c446746 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/science_is_cool#c446746 What the Tue, 15 Aug 2006 13:31:09 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle All I can say is, The Great Spaghetti Monster didn't put us on this world just to mess around with his/her/its Divine Plan.

We were supposed to be polite dinner conversation partners, but no we go and trash the place and start messing with DNA and RNA and the SPCA ...

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/science_is_cool#c446830 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/science_is_cool#c446830 What the Tue, 15 Aug 2006 14:59:47 -0800