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Alright, let's just pretend the DNA was somehow snap frozen or preserved to make it still useable. With today's technology could we create a creature from long
by grecy 7y ago
Alright, let's just pretend the DNA was somehow snap frozen or preserved to make it still useable.
With today's technology could we create a creature from long ago with nothing more than it's DNA?
- Retric 7y agoIt would be a reasonable thing to attempt with today’s technology, but it would be a serious R&D project. It’s harder the older the sample and vastly more difficult if few closely related species survive.
- thaumasiotes 7y ago> It would be a reasonable thing to attempt with today’s technology, but it would be a serious R&D project. Dinosaurs have enough cultural prestige that it would make total sense to do it as a vanity project if the technology is there. Similar to turning lead into gold -- there's enough cultural meaning built up around it that someone should do it before it really makes sense in a vacuum.
- stanfordkid 7y agoA project like this could be the space race of our epoch!
- masonic 7y agoI could see Elon Musk funding a Jurassic Park kind of effort to re-create dinosaurs... just to be the first to taste a dinosaur-egg omelette.