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Maybe it's time, beside the Global Seed Vault, to have a Global Species Vault?
by 7373737373 3y ago
Maybe it's time, beside the Global Seed Vault, to have a Global Species Vault?
- doubloon 3y agowe already have that, it's called nature parks
- Detrytus 3y agoYou mean a ZOO? We have plenty of those.
- wincy 3y agoLike an Ark?
- clnq 3y agoHuman violence and lack of morality causes a flood/rising sea levels and now we're talking about an Ark where the enlightened will spare the other animals from destruction that is for humanity to face. Way to pollute the planet so much the bible becomes an instruction manual lol (no offense to believers, just a joke)
- themaninthedark 3y agoI think believers wouldn't be offended, they want you to use the bible as an instruction manual.
- undersuit 3y agoWhat if it's easier to reverse our current course of action than to make a vault of all the animals? I mean even just collecting sperm and embryos from lizards seems kinda insane. Amphibian, fish, mollusk, and insect species are far more numerous and at far more risk.
- labster 3y agoBuilding a giant vault is definitely easier than convincing people to change the way they live. Putting aside whether the book of Genesis is literally true or not, the tale of Noah’s Ark certainly describes how people behave correctly.
- kbenson 3y agoI would assume you would just take genetic samples in the easiest, and most durable form. I think the answer to your question is that if it's easier to reverse our course then a bunch of species will be dead with no way to revive them. Easier does not mean easy, and reversing course is IMO next to impossible, so it bei g harder than that just means it won't happen.
- undersuit 3y agoSo it's not a vault it's a digital archive. Still the action of scanning in the DNA for future use. Just on lizards still, biggest project humanities ever taken.
- kbenson 3y agoI would assume you'd want that digital archive in a vault for the same reasons we put seeds kn the seed vault. Like the seed vault, the only copy doesn't need to (nor should it) exist just in the vault, but that's a good location to make sure at least one copy survives.
- throwitaway222 3y agoI don't think you can just freeze a packet of aardvarks like that.
- fnord77 3y agofrozen embryos
- pmags 3y agoUnfortunately few animal gametes are as hardy as those of plants and fungi. In terms of a record of genetic and phenotypic diversity, the global network of natural history museums (at least those with research arms), largely play this role. <sarcasm> As soon as we figure out how to rejuvenate extinct species from their DNA records we should all be good ... <wink> </sarcasm>