Well, you said digital, but that's not the only way to do it. Blood in a stabilizer of some sort (if it exists) or some other carrier of genetic material was mo

Well, you said digital, but that's not the only way to do it. Blood in a stabilizer of some sort (if it exists) or some other carrier of genetic material was more along the lines of what I meant. That's much easier to do (maybe? I'm not sure what it takes to stabilize it over a long time frame), but takes a lot more physical space. I agree it's not something that is necessarily immediately useful right after a problem, but it's something better to have than not. Reconstructing the wooly mammoth DNA required filling in somewhat large gaps with elephant DNA if I recall correctly, so even if we are able to resurrect the wooly mammoth with it, it won't really be a wooly mammoth, it will be mostly one, to the best of our ability. Something definitive tracking species would likely be greatly appreciated by future generations.