One Step Closer to Bringing Back Extinct Dodo Dallas
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A Dallas-based project is making progress in bringing back the extinct dodo through genetic engineering, sparking both excitement and skepticism among commenters about the ethics and feasibility of de-extinction.
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"... Colossal’s chief scientist Beth Shapiro appears to agree. “It’s not possible to bring something back that is identical to a species that used to be alive." [1]
I'll believe it when I can walk into Jack in the Box and get a Dodo bird sandwich with ranch.
[1] https://www.newscientist.com/article/2481409-colossal-scient...
Sure, we had these mammoth, and these fancy birds, and the dinosaurs. So? It's gone. Let's look at the future. let's figure out what we need now (EVs, Rockets, open Internet...etc).
I am just always surprised by how much emphasis we put on bringing things from the dead, instead of actively elevating the living.