South Korean Scientists Prepare To Clone Wooly Mammoth 195
An anonymous reader writes "Last year Russian researchers discovered a well-preserved mammoth thigh bone and announced plans to clone a mammoth from the bone marrow within — and they just signed a deal with South Korea's Sooam Biotech Research Foundation to bring the project to fruition. The Sooam scientists plan to implant the nucleus of a woolly mammoth cell into an elephant egg in order to to create a mammoth embryo, which would then be placed in an elephant womb. 'This will be a really tough job,' Soaam reasearcher Hwang In-Sung said, 'but we believe it is possible because our institute is good at cloning animals.'" Not to be confused with a similar mammoth effort at mammoth-cloning at Kyoto University.
Mass production (Score:5, Funny)
Knowing the Koreans they will be turning out a million units a year starting in 2014.
Arsenal (Score:4, Funny)
Forget their nuclear capabilities. We now have a bigger problem.
Re:Mass production (Score:5, Funny)
That would be a truly mammoth production level.
Giants (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Mass production (Score:5, Funny)
And the first questions after they have successfully cloned a mammoth by the people will be, "How does it taste?"
Sounds great (Score:2, Funny)
Until they figure out that mammoths are assholes and that there is another reason they are extinct.
At Last... (Score:5, Funny)
Knowing the Koreans they will be turning out a million units a year starting in 2014.
I will FINALLY be able to get those giant, car tipping Bar-B-Que ribs Fred Flintstone caused me to lust after for so very long!
Re:At Last... (Score:4, Funny)
WARNING:
Property Protected by
Attack Mammoth!
should make anyone think twice about entering.
Also might be cool to breed them down to the size of a pony and ride them to work...
But the ribs idea could help the world economy. Imagine the demand for Bar-B-Que sauce and over-sized napkins.
I don't even... (Score:4, Funny)
I'm not sure how much I trust any scientist that thinks elephants are born out of eggs....
( I keed, I keed )
Re:Mass production (Score:5, Funny)
They had better be careful. Things could get a bit hairy.
Re:Mass production (Score:4, Funny)
I never buy cars from any company that doesn't allow wheels. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
Re:Arsenal (Score:1, Funny)
Re:At Last... (Score:2, Funny)
You bastard, you made me google "Flinstone porn", and now I dearly regret it. Fucker!
Re:This is good to hear considering... (Score:3, Funny)
Like rational intelligent statesmen?
Re:Mass production (Score:5, Funny)
No need to be condescending; the Koreans know what they're doing.
Re:Saber Tooth Tiger, Dodo, Neanderthal and .. Chr (Score:3, Funny)
Here's what would happen if you cloned Jesus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbcr-SQ-gEY [youtube.com]
Re:Huh. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:At Last... (Score:5, Funny)
You bastard, you made me google "Flinstone porn", and now I dearly regret it. Fucker!
Read that as "nearly regret it"...
Re:Mass production (Score:5, Funny)
And the first questions after they have successfully cloned a mammoth by the people will be, "How does it taste?"
And the answer will be, "Like chicken!"
Re:Sweet (Score:4, Funny)
Looks like we have a somewhat kinky but definitely tough enough replacement for Bear Grylls.
Re:At Last... (Score:4, Funny)
Because Elephants aren't a particularly effective weapon. If they were, we'd all be talking Carthaginian now.