Comment by yewenjie

5 hours ago

Is this a company and not a research lab doing this? What's the economic imperative for funding this?

They're a foundation working on "de extinction". They want to hatch dodos.

  • I'm holding out hope we can get the moa birds back in my lifetime.

    • Or the South American terrorbirds, the extant species are tiny, seriemas, and they're very interesting. I bet one that weighs 700 pounds would be even more exciting

  • Yes, yes. Dodos.

    The endgame of this is Dodos.

    • Yes, first they'll focus on normal dodos. Then, they'll try very large Dodos. After that, very, very ancient dodos. Followed by island dodos. Then they might set up a whole island that people can visit, full of all kinds of dodos. They'll do tours with self driving cars so people can see all the dodos from a safe distance.

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A velociraptor skeleton is worth around $10 million. Hatch a few dozen per year and you’re making great money.

  • [Colossal Biosciences] has raised over $600 million and carries a valuation exceeding $10 billion.

    You're not making a return on that from selling velocirator skeletons. Nor is that sort of money in dodos and maos.

    Human cloning on the other hand...

Maybe short term, pumping out chickens. For food.

Long term, maybe chickens are just the test case and they will pump out human slaves. Replicants.

  • No. This is a very stupid and uneducated thing to suggest. Do better.

    • "very stupid and uneducated thing to suggest"

      1. Take a common trope in fiction and research for a hundred years. With long known commonly linked ramifications.

      2. A company actually starts doing it.

      3. Suggest a link

      4. -> Call it Stupid.

      Yeah. Don't worry about it at all. Nothing to see here.

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