OT: This technology will be the end of us

[Fishy]

Scientists: Dire wolf brought back from extinction after 13,000 years​

 

[Edward Sargent]

Ok the first Jurassic Park movie was great but after that it got stupid. If you want to know a little more about populations genetics try
David Reich's Who We are and How We Got Here - Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past where you will learn about how we have come to understand ancient DNA. Another is Genome by Matt Ridley where he picks out each chromosome and talks about the reason why there is a certain mutation on that chromosome. Reich's book is a little technical but Matt's book is great reading

 

[StllH8L8ner]

Ok the first Jurassic Park movie was great but after that it got stupid.

So you won’t be first in line for the next one coming out soon with Scarlett Johansson? Lol.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

If nothing else, we now know that it's only a matter of time before we finally get to see a real jackalope.

 

[HuskyHawk]

We all go back to this, but a few modern jets would make short work of the whole island.

I‘m waiting for the Toronto Raptors to have a live mascot that gets loose and devours the crowd.

 

[maple]

i've never understood why there hasn't been a Kennedy "let's go to the moon" kind of thing to cure cancer. Big Pharma conspiracies the only reason I can think of.

While I don't deny that Big Pharma is greedy as hell, there are genuine efforts to try and find "cures" for cancer.

Part of the hardship of it is that there is so many different variants of cancer even within just one particular type of cancer. You can get cancer on almost every part of your body. Now imagine there are at least 10 different variants on each of those. Plus some people may get multiple types of cancer at once; now it's more complicated because you can't know for sure if what works for one particular strain will work for the other. Or maybe they'll make it worse. The idea of a singular miracle drug, while not technically impossible, is a very long ways off. But if they can establish the groundwork for individual pills that can cure individual strains, they can build from there.

Another aspect is money. By which I mean, all cancer money isn't being directed to one singular cancer cure research institute. It's spread out over many, many places. And all of those places are essentially in competition with each other so research isn't always being shared openly across the board. (And not all of that money is actually going to research, either.) When your motivation is primarily to be the "first" so that you can get a patent and charge any $ amount (and trust me, they absolutely do; look at how much they want to gouge for even insulin), you're not going to feel very motivated to potentially help another company. This isn't on scientists/researchers on the ground level, obviously, but this is where Big Pharma capitalism comes in.

(There's also room in the discussion for the waters being muddied by fabricated results/research, like what happened with some of the leading Alzheimer's research. That can lead scientists/researchers down rabbit holes and dead ends that will waste valuable time. Unfortunately the penalties for fabricating such findings are not yet steep enough to deter people from not doing it.)

"Let's go to the moon" is much easier in a practical sense in the same way that "let's build a nuclear weapon" was easier. It's a singular endpoint goal with all of the money and resources being directed to one place. And no real focus on any capitalistic gains.

 

[Austin316]

Scientists: Dire wolf brought back from extinction after 13,000 years​

This shouldn’t scare you. It’s the stuff they’ve bring back and don’t tell you that should scare you.

 

[Fishy]

We all go back to this, but a few modern jets would make short work of the whole island.

I‘m waiting for the Toronto Raptors to have a live mascot that gets loose and devours the crowd.

That’s basically the plot of Top Gun 3.

You would also think that Bryce Howard’s character would have received some kinda ban against ever being allowed to work in the theme park industry again.

 

[temery]

This shouldn’t scare you. It’s the stuff they’ve bring back and don’t tell you that should scare you.

that's why I said the technology scares me.

 

[Scrutineer]

Pretty sure Wilt has no concerns about DNA being left behind....

Especially when he's given a standing ovation in Gampel when he's introduced as our latest portal addition in 2045!