Patra Caesar
16-01-2005, 03:03
I was listening to the radio and they were doing a segment on future technologies and when the topic of cloning came up (I think human clones are illegal here, so what happens if someone breaks the law? Do they kill this human clone?) and the presenter asked would it be possible to clone a Tasmanian Tiger? The boffin yammered on for a while with some answer that seemed to be neither 'yes,' or 'no.' So I thought I'd ask you guys for your opinion, should we (if we can) clone animals like this whom we as a species have made extinct?
Obviously we cannot clone a Dodo (all we have are a few amateur pictures and one burnt head, all the DNA in which is probably too corrupted, we don't even know what it looks like exactly, no idea what it ate, how it breeds ect), but what about something like the Tasmanian Tiger?
I should point out the Tassie Tiger isn't actually a tiger, it's a marsupial. Imagine a skinny Kangaroo that runs on all fours and eats meat, sorta like a dog.
So yes, we should replace what we have wiped out for the sake of future generations, or is this an abominable idea?
Remember this is cloning animals, not people (although some people act like animals at times).
Obviously we cannot clone a Dodo (all we have are a few amateur pictures and one burnt head, all the DNA in which is probably too corrupted, we don't even know what it looks like exactly, no idea what it ate, how it breeds ect), but what about something like the Tasmanian Tiger?
I should point out the Tassie Tiger isn't actually a tiger, it's a marsupial. Imagine a skinny Kangaroo that runs on all fours and eats meat, sorta like a dog.
So yes, we should replace what we have wiped out for the sake of future generations, or is this an abominable idea?
Remember this is cloning animals, not people (although some people act like animals at times).