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I'm not a paleontologist or anything, but it seems rather cruel to bring back an ice age creature, well adapted to frigid temperatures, into a world we've basic

• thatjoeoverthr 4y ago
  Shave them and sell the wool. They’ll be buzz cut mammoths.
• dotnet00 4y ago
  Kind of like a Roko's basilisk situation
• xyzwave 4y ago
  When Tim Ferriss interviewed Stewart Brand on this [1], it sounded like the intention was to introduce them to the far north which is both closer to their natural habitat, and far away from people. Sounds in-line with the article here. Relevant snippet from Brand: > Eventually, the rest of that story is that woolly mammoths could be part of the revival of what used to be called the Mammoth Steppe, which is the grasslands of the far north, which was once the largest biome on Earth … what [Mammoths] are good at is knocking down trees. Knocking down trees is good because it turns a closed-canopy forest into mosaic, and a mosaic is a much richer ecological environment for all kinds of species. 1. https://tim.blog/2018/02/03/the-tim-ferriss-show-transcripts-stewart-brand/ https://tim.blog/2018/02/03/the-tim-ferriss-show-transcripts...
• edmcnulty101 4y ago
  Geologically speaking the Earth is on the tail end of an ice age and has been way hotter than it has been today. I'm sure a mammoth would thrive in places like Alaska and Canada.