vegeta@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 天前'Closer than people think': Woolly mammoth 'de-extinction' is nearing reality — and we have no idea what happens nextwww.livescience.comexternal-linkmessage-square95fedilinkarrow-up1318arrow-down19cross-posted to: science@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1309arrow-down1external-link'Closer than people think': Woolly mammoth 'de-extinction' is nearing reality — and we have no idea what happens nextwww.livescience.comvegeta@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 天前message-square95fedilinkcross-posted to: science@lemmy.ml
minus-squareStenSaksTapir@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up54·15 天前I’ve said this a million times before, but if we’re playing gods anyway, can’t we make them dog sized also? I would totally get one or maybe two.
minus-squaremakyo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35·15 天前Yeah you say that until you get a tusk in the crotch
minus-squareStenSaksTapir@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·edit-215 天前They’ll be wearing stylish pool noodles on the tusks to minimize furniture and gonad damage. Or we create them with softer tusks. Maybe that’s better, the. They’ll also be worthless to poachers.
minus-squareThreeme2189@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·15 天前I don’t want to live in a world that has wooly mammoths with floppy tusks. It just seems wrong.
minus-squareStenSaksTapir@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·13 天前Of course it seems wrong when you say it like that.
minus-squareRecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·14 天前What about that trunk though? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
minus-squareSpruceBringsteen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·14 天前If they’re like their cousins you don’t want a pet that smart. Especially with a trunk. Good luck mammoth proofing your house.
minus-squaretahoe@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·15 天前Even dog sized they’d probably weigh like 200Kg. Mammoths be thicc
minus-squareDeceptichum@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·15 天前https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmy_mammoth
minus-squareStenSaksTapir@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·15 天前Those are closer to horse-sized, but it’s a good start.
minus-squareJovialMicrobial@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·14 天前Pygmy mammoths would be adorable! Imagine them pulling sleds in the winter with jingle bells and stuff.
I’ve said this a million times before, but if we’re playing gods anyway, can’t we make them dog sized also?
I would totally get one or maybe two.
Yeah you say that until you get a tusk in the crotch
They’ll be wearing stylish pool noodles on the tusks to minimize furniture and gonad damage.
Or we create them with softer tusks. Maybe that’s better, the. They’ll also be worthless to poachers.
I don’t want to live in a world that has wooly mammoths with floppy tusks. It just seems wrong.
Of course it seems wrong when you say it like that.
What about that trunk though? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
If they’re like their cousins you don’t want a pet that smart. Especially with a trunk. Good luck mammoth proofing your house.
Even dog sized they’d probably weigh like 200Kg. Mammoths be thicc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmy_mammoth
Those are closer to horse-sized, but it’s a good start.
Pygmy mammoths would be adorable! Imagine them pulling sleds in the winter with jingle bells and stuff.