Colossal Biosciences is partially funded by the CIA which owns a venture capital firm called In-Q-Tel. One might ask why the CIA is investing in gene editing technology.
Also the company does not have the technology to “recreate” any extinct species. What they are doing is editing the dna of modern elephants to make them have long hair.
The company is simultaneously both a scam for dumbshit investors and a CIA front for genetics experiments, in my opinion.
Here’s how you know someone is trying to shut down thinking and conversation about an issue: They dismiss and stigmatize anyone who suggests that their actions and agenda are problematic. They attack people who disagree with them as “conspiracy theorists”, unscientific, uniformed, and simple-minded. We’re on to your tactics now. Those tactics got burned out by their viscous overuse in the last five years particularly, and now a great many people recognize those tactics as propaganda and abusive.
"Dinosaurs had their shot, and nature selected them for extinction." Maybe it's going to be AI vs. Genetic Manipulation for control (or destruction) of the world. But, I would take the first dose of Captain America's super soldier serum.
Millions of years of evolution at work, and nature decided thousands of years ago that the dire wolf no longer fit in. Ah, but scientists today are far wiser than nature. And they can control the climate too, if only we followed their dictates. There is apparently no limit to the hubris of today’s elites.
I’m old enough to remember a commercial from years ago- It’s not nice to fool with Mother Nature.
Colossal Biosciences says that they have the new dire wolves well confined.
No more chance of them getting out their secret, secure confinement preserve than there would be for a novel SARS coronavirus to escape from a Level IV biosafety containment facility.
We have wolves up here and they are HUGE. Dire wolves are even bigger, 7ft long and 4ft high. Our farmers are always on the alert, especially since the urban tree huggers down in Madison, WI, decided to stop the very limited and controlled annual culls because "reasons".
I cannot imagine what these would or could do if released. My father has a mutant German shepherd; it's the tallest, and largest I've ever seen. He scares the shit out of delivery drivers when he's inside looking out the floor to ceiling windows next ti the front door.
He only weighs 120lbs when dire wolves are around 150lbs.
I'm a scientist and a free thinker (former lib redpilled in 2009), but I read Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park book long before the movie came out.
They're extinct for a reason. What's next? A saber-toothed tiger? How about a wooly mammoth or T-Rex? Where does it stop?
Good points on the physical attributes. I know wolves are extremely intelligent but I doubt anyone knows what Dire wolves are like so how do we know they're not like some canine velociraptor come to life?
All very interesting. I wouldn't mind seeing the wooly mammoths, or even the sabretooths.
But death (even extinction) is part of existence. And you're right about the likely paranoia of the artificially long-lived. And I imagine they would be spiritually dead long before their bodies caught up.
supposedly, a lot of that difference was childhood mortality. They say that, if our ancestors lived through childhood, their life expectancy was more similar.
Looking more closely, people were on their way out at age 40-50. We know of people who lived a lot longer, but they were famous because they were wealthy (and probably lucky).
We also don’t factor into the data the millions of humans now who are conceived and alive but don’t make it to birth due to being aborted. Per science, life begins at conception. That data would significantly reduce average life expectancy numbers.
We live in interesting times, but this seems to be a self indulgent use of rich people’s money and the ones who will be paying for future mistakes will be all of us. Why are people so obsessed with changing our world by intentionally introducing extinct species, and not more interested in helping people who are in this world already and suffering?
This is a bit scary. I’d like to know what the purpose was in working on these specific animals – – was it just because they were cute on Game of Thrones? Or do they intend to unleash them to eat up our livestock or coyote populations? Why didn’t they bring back something useful like the buffalo?!
Postscript: Glenn Beck reports this project was funded by the CIA like gain of function research to deploy on our enemies one day. There they go again.
This seems more like some chink in a narrative that is being spun. Something that will eventually sync up with the telepathy files, Trump’s Stargate Project and maybe even with a new origins story for human beings?
I would like to know what the evolutionary scientists have to say about the consequences of bringing back not recent extinctions like the dusky seaside sparrow, but species that have been out of the evolutionary stream for over 10,000 years.
You took my comment in the totally opposite spirit in which it was meant. I am in agreement with you; where’s the concern for the tens of millions of aborted/murdered humans?
American Humane Society spending untold amounts of money on dire wolfs while advertising for donations to help unwanted abandoned dogs seems a bit hypocritical. The money, time, resources, and huge free range of land for them while dogs are in a concrete cage. 🤬🤬🤬
Sasha, the book would be awesome! Btw Neanderthals were not Homo-Sapien but instead a different humanoid species. They did inter-breed with those that left Africa and travelers north to Europe and Asia. That’s why Africans have near zero Neanderthal DNA and whites and Asians have about 4%. It’s also highly positively correlated to the average IQ scores of the various races. Fact.
Like most of the things people *can* do, nobody ever asks if you *should* do them. It won’t end well.
Colossal Biosciences is partially funded by the CIA which owns a venture capital firm called In-Q-Tel. One might ask why the CIA is investing in gene editing technology.
Also the company does not have the technology to “recreate” any extinct species. What they are doing is editing the dna of modern elephants to make them have long hair.
The company is simultaneously both a scam for dumbshit investors and a CIA front for genetics experiments, in my opinion.
How does the CIA have venture capital? Thats our tax dollars. Grrr.
So basically those long haired elephants are “trans mammoths?”
Just think of all the CIA investments that we have zero insight on.
And how do you know that?
Here’s how you know someone is trying to shut down thinking and conversation about an issue: They dismiss and stigmatize anyone who suggests that their actions and agenda are problematic. They attack people who disagree with them as “conspiracy theorists”, unscientific, uniformed, and simple-minded. We’re on to your tactics now. Those tactics got burned out by their viscous overuse in the last five years particularly, and now a great many people recognize those tactics as propaganda and abusive.
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Ranchers won't be happy. To paraphrase from Blazing Saddles:
"Well if that don't beat all. Here we go to all the trouble to slaughter ever last WOLF in the West, and for what?"
Nothing ends well. If it remained good, people would want to participate. When it's bad and running on fumes, it's days are numbered.
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"Dinosaurs had their shot, and nature selected them for extinction." Maybe it's going to be AI vs. Genetic Manipulation for control (or destruction) of the world. But, I would take the first dose of Captain America's super soldier serum.
Man plans, God laughs. Our blind hubris will be our undoing. Ask the Romans.
Ask every empire that ever existed.
Millions of years of evolution at work, and nature decided thousands of years ago that the dire wolf no longer fit in. Ah, but scientists today are far wiser than nature. And they can control the climate too, if only we followed their dictates. There is apparently no limit to the hubris of today’s elites.
I’m old enough to remember a commercial from years ago- It’s not nice to fool with Mother Nature.
Dire wolves named Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi?
This novel writes itself.
They let us know all the time that they are evil.
Just because you CAN, doesn’t mean you SHOULD.
Scientists need to have that prominently tattooed on them somewhere.
But they won’t heed it. The temptation to f’ around is too great.
“FAFO” ~ Coming to neighborhood near you!!
Dire wolves, viral gain of function.
What could possibly go wrong??!!
Almost as if the "mad scientist" trope is for real.
I live in a Canadian city, where coyotes still abound, and pets still disappear. Not sure what the advantage to all of this is. In real terms.
Colossal Biosciences says that they have the new dire wolves well confined.
No more chance of them getting out their secret, secure confinement preserve than there would be for a novel SARS coronavirus to escape from a Level IV biosafety containment facility.
Oh -- wait ...
Until the cleaning lady mistakenly flips the latch one night....
Almost?
We have wolves up here and they are HUGE. Dire wolves are even bigger, 7ft long and 4ft high. Our farmers are always on the alert, especially since the urban tree huggers down in Madison, WI, decided to stop the very limited and controlled annual culls because "reasons".
I cannot imagine what these would or could do if released. My father has a mutant German shepherd; it's the tallest, and largest I've ever seen. He scares the shit out of delivery drivers when he's inside looking out the floor to ceiling windows next ti the front door.
He only weighs 120lbs when dire wolves are around 150lbs.
I'm a scientist and a free thinker (former lib redpilled in 2009), but I read Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park book long before the movie came out.
They're extinct for a reason. What's next? A saber-toothed tiger? How about a wooly mammoth or T-Rex? Where does it stop?
Nothing good can come from this.
Good points on the physical attributes. I know wolves are extremely intelligent but I doubt anyone knows what Dire wolves are like so how do we know they're not like some canine velociraptor come to life?
I would support de-extincting velociraptors if they only ate deranged liberals.
But anyone who has had a pair of sandhill cranes nest under their bedroom window knows that they are the direct descendants of pterodactyls.
Humans are in dire need of natural predators to cull the herd.
All very interesting. I wouldn't mind seeing the wooly mammoths, or even the sabretooths.
But death (even extinction) is part of existence. And you're right about the likely paranoia of the artificially long-lived. And I imagine they would be spiritually dead long before their bodies caught up.
Could they de-extinct pristine American Bison, prior to interbreeding with European cattle, I wonder.
As crazy as living to be 150 would be, imagine what our ancestors who had a life expectancy of around 30 would think of our lifespans today.
supposedly, a lot of that difference was childhood mortality. They say that, if our ancestors lived through childhood, their life expectancy was more similar.
Looking more closely, people were on their way out at age 40-50. We know of people who lived a lot longer, but they were famous because they were wealthy (and probably lucky).
We also don’t factor into the data the millions of humans now who are conceived and alive but don’t make it to birth due to being aborted. Per science, life begins at conception. That data would significantly reduce average life expectancy numbers.
If Methusela's age was numbered in moons rather than years, he would have lived into his 60s.
How do you know he was numbered by moons? Others were counted by years and lived until their hundreds.
I don't know. But if my guess is true, then there was no need for God to rewrite the whole human genome to get us from there to here.
Thousands of years ago, mankind lived to about 120, sometimes older, sometimes younger.
We live in interesting times, but this seems to be a self indulgent use of rich people’s money and the ones who will be paying for future mistakes will be all of us. Why are people so obsessed with changing our world by intentionally introducing extinct species, and not more interested in helping people who are in this world already and suffering?
This is a bit scary. I’d like to know what the purpose was in working on these specific animals – – was it just because they were cute on Game of Thrones? Or do they intend to unleash them to eat up our livestock or coyote populations? Why didn’t they bring back something useful like the buffalo?!
Postscript: Glenn Beck reports this project was funded by the CIA like gain of function research to deploy on our enemies one day. There they go again.
This seems more like some chink in a narrative that is being spun. Something that will eventually sync up with the telepathy files, Trump’s Stargate Project and maybe even with a new origins story for human beings?
The dire wolf story gives hope to the Democrats
I would like to know what the evolutionary scientists have to say about the consequences of bringing back not recent extinctions like the dusky seaside sparrow, but species that have been out of the evolutionary stream for over 10,000 years.
About 99% of all species that have ever existed on Earth are now extinct.
Perspective, people. Please.
Bring them all back!! Every single one! What could go wrong?
They bring back the dire wolves, but there have been over 63 million abortions of human beings in the U.S. since Roe vs. Wade in 1973.
Priorities are a bit odd.
Preach!
You took my comment in the totally opposite spirit in which it was meant. I am in agreement with you; where’s the concern for the tens of millions of aborted/murdered humans?
Thank you for getting back to me to clear that up.
I have had a number of the WOKE send me comments much like that one. With "preaching" used as a criticism. It's a fairly common kind of hit from them.
Alternate wording, perhaps? More explanation?
American Humane Society spending untold amounts of money on dire wolfs while advertising for donations to help unwanted abandoned dogs seems a bit hypocritical. The money, time, resources, and huge free range of land for them while dogs are in a concrete cage. 🤬🤬🤬
Sasha, the book would be awesome! Btw Neanderthals were not Homo-Sapien but instead a different humanoid species. They did inter-breed with those that left Africa and travelers north to Europe and Asia. That’s why Africans have near zero Neanderthal DNA and whites and Asians have about 4%. It’s also highly positively correlated to the average IQ scores of the various races. Fact.