Frozen Mice Cloned 272
m0rphin3 writes "Japanese scientists have cloned mice whose bodies were frozen for as long as 16 years and said on Monday it may be possible to use the technique to resurrect mammoths and other extinct species. Could we finally see Jurassic Park become a reality, or perhaps use this for colonizing other galaxies?"
That juicy t-bone steak (Score:3, Funny)
The biggest question (Score:5, Funny)
Who keeps dead mice in their freezer for 16 years? Remind me not to have the Brunswick stew at their house.
Or colonizing galaxies with mamoths? (Score:5, Funny)
We use this technology to colonize other galaxies with giant wooly mamoths. That would be so cool.
Hmmmm (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Or colonizing galaxies with mamoths? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Galaxies? (Score:3, Funny)
(Sorry, is that too many rhetorical questions?)
I don't know, was that a rhetorical question?
Ice Age Sequel (Score:5, Funny)
Re:That juicy t-bone steak (Score:5, Funny)
I've already seen much comment by fanatical vegans on the Internet that even meat from lab-grown cells is deplorable.
But those are vegans. Us vegetarian-types would buy up lab-meat by the ton.
Re:16 years is not (Score:5, Funny)
16,000 or 160,000,000 years. While this may be "just engineering" to some, it's still a big just as there's still a lot of DNA degradation that happens over the course of millennia. There's a lot of reasons this might not work for a species we've never seen develop.
That's why you plug the gaps with frog DNA. Nothing could possibly go wrong!
Re:ethics (Score:5, Funny)
Like what, a long extinct animal suddenly appearing at a dinner party, causing everybody to spit out their drinks?
Alright, let's decide right now. (Score:3, Funny)
We know someone is going to make a real-life Jurassic Park someday, let's decide right now where it should be.
We need a really isolated island, let the voting begin!
Reply with your choice and for which reasons.
Re:That juicy t-bone steak (Score:4, Funny)
Cruelty adds flavor.
Brilliant! (Score:3, Funny)
Could we finally see Jurassic Park become a reality
Yea we should totally do that, because it worked out so well in the movie.
Re:That juicy t-bone steak (Score:3, Funny)
I'm sure we'll find you to be both tasty and delicious.
Re:That juicy t-bone steak (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Not dinosaurs (Score:5, Funny)
How about the dodo.
Admit it you want to know how it tastes!
Colonization (Score:2, Funny)
Re:16 years is not (Score:1, Funny)
The frog DNA turns out to be a third fail-safe that Crichton did not mention: If the lysine dependence and all-female population fail-safes did not stop the dinosaurs, the frog DNA should guarantee their extinction from fungus, habitat loss, and [possibly] man-made climate change.
Re:Not dinosaurs (Score:5, Funny)
To which John replies: "Sort of like a cross between bald eagle eggs and emperor penguin."
Re:The biggest question (Score:5, Funny)
What, you don't like micicles?
Re:Not dinosaurs (Score:5, Funny)
Re:That juicy t-bone steak (Score:5, Funny)
Mmmm. Animal flesh. (drool). I wonder what Vegan tastes like?
Rather like cat. Not as gamey as dog, and lighter in texture than squirrel. Similar to kobe beef, but not quite as much marbling, due to the lack of fat in their diet. Oh, and utterly *unlike* rabbit.
What are we going to do.... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Alright, let's decide right now. (Score:3, Funny)
Japan.
They have lots of experience with Godzilla already.
Better rethink that plan (Score:3, Funny)
I don't think colonizing other galaxies with frozen mice is such a great idea. Live mice aren't too bright, let alone frozen ones.
Re:Or colonizing galaxies with mamoths? (Score:5, Funny)
That explains how million year old fossils ended up on a 6 thousand year old planet.
Insightful? (Score:2, Funny)
He talks about killing all hippies and gets modded insightful? I know that some people on slashdot have trouble recognizing a joke when they see one...but seriously...insightful???
What little trace of faith I once had in the slashdot moderation system is now completely gone.
And yes I am kinda new here.
Re:Brilliant! (Score:5, Funny)
On Monday (Score:2, Funny)
...on Monday it may be possible to use the technique to resurrect mammoths and other extinct species.
Why Monday? Does he have something against doing it on Tuesday or Wednesday?
Re:Galaxies? (Score:4, Funny)
"Maybe I'll start writing sports stories, and attribute everything I don't understand to the infield fly rule, since I don't really understand it. No matter if the story is about football."
And it's fifteen-love-all, Godspeed You! Black Emperor coming up the inside straight, tacking to windward and about to haul the spinnaker, but oh no what's this, the referee's calling a line-out, leg before wicket, straight to the solar plexus and his king's in check. Respawn, quad damage, but can he get a triple-word score on the centre square. Yes he can, he's cleared the sand trap, an eagle under par at silly mid off and what a finish, what a finish. Straight to Alpha Centauri. Magnificent.
Re:Or colonizing galaxies with mamoths? (Score:2, Funny)