Fab1b;642877 wrote:The question I have is if this happens, when does it stop? What will be next?

Well, nobody clearly READ the article that's posted on the thread lol. The only reason they can clone the mammoth is because they found one that contains viable flesh with DNA still intact. The doctor in the article explains that you can't clone a dinosaur because there's no flesh left, only fossilized bone. Bone does not contain DNA. So the obvious answer to your question would be, it stops when they don't have viable flesh from something they find. It will never happen with dinosaurs. The last known dinosaurs died out over 65 million years ago, and nothing that's frozen now (like Antartica, the Arctic circle, or Siberia where they found this mammoth) has been frozen for that long. I know the theory of how they did it in Jurassic park sounds semi-realistic, but finding something like that would likely be 100x's more rare that getting struck by lightning. So all in all, I could see them maybe being able to clone extinct things from up to about 8-10,000 years ago or LESS, but anything over that is highly unlikely.

Mulva;642550 wrote:

Sometimes, dead is better.

this made me laugh and then chuckle.

CenterBHSFan;642540 wrote:Let dead things stay dead.

Like Larry King and Hugh Heffner.

Red_Skin_Pride;643444 wrote:Well, nobody clearly READ the article that's posted on the thread lol. The only reason they can clone the mammoth is because they found one that contains viable flesh with DNA still intact. The doctor in the article explains that you can't clone a dinosaur because there's no flesh left, only fossilized bone.

I think most of us realize this haha. We were just having a little fun

It'll stop after the MANBEARPIG!

Red_Skin_Pride;643444 wrote:Well, nobody clearly READ the article that's posted on the thread lol. The only reason they can clone the mammoth is because they found one that contains viable flesh with DNA still intact. The doctor in the article explains that you can't clone a dinosaur because there's no flesh left, only fossilized bone. Bone does not contain DNA. So the obvious answer to your question would be, it stops when they don't have viable flesh from something they find. It will never happen with dinosaurs. The last known dinosaurs died out over 65 million years ago, and nothing that's frozen now (like Antartica, the Arctic circle, or Siberia where they found this mammoth) has been frozen for that long. I know the theory of how they did it in Jurassic park sounds semi-realistic, but finding something like that would likely be 100x's more rare that getting struck by lightning. So all in all, I could see them maybe being able to clone extinct things from up to about 8-10,000 years ago or LESS, but anything over that is highly unlikely.

There's always NESSIE!

I ask my wife last night about the idea of creating a Belly35 from my DNA
Her reply was .... Fuck No....

Some would say that this would be a Kansas Raptor



I'm thinkin along the lines of a Jesus Rapture..