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Mar 22, 2017 9:01 PM
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iforgotwhatiwasdoinghere
danielsan1977
Hope y'all spare no expense.
leftbanana
Headline from 2040AD: Mankind extinction imminent -- Runaway population of cave lions followed reintroduction by idiot scientists
Iwasfunnyonce
They're so busy trying to figure out if they CAN, but have they thought about if they SHOULD?
JuanNieves
myhappyanonplace
I feel like some close will obviously go wrong n I wonder what those will look like
Valnar300
Someone let Dennis Leary know...
MustrumRidculy
WE can DOOOOO IIIIITTT!!!!
wingdinger
Theyre doing this with wooly mammoths too, to save the tundra from thawing. Really interesting
ThunderASE
This is how we get Jurassic park.........do you want Jurassic park????
MaxPower1177
I feel like I read something about DNA only surviving for 500 years or so.
Dunes8
[Citation Needed!]
wzzt
Their first use will be selling them as pets to billionaires in the middle east.
cognescenti
Trump will take credit.
emmalilly
OMG has anyone alerted Uwe Boll?!?!
cuttysark
Why would one do that? Didn't you see Jurassic Park?
ovelanimimerkki
You want cave lions, this is how you get cave lions. I guess, I'm not a scientist.
badhabitaddict
What ever happened to scientist doing something of the sort for mammoths with elephants
NotACanadian
[citation needed]
Neablis
This.
leftbanana
Yeah, that's going to end well
Kaofael
Why though?
dah2001
Do you want cave lions....because that is how you get cave lions.
ImmortalAzrael
I think that's the goal.
smurphysmc
Have these fucking people never watched jurassic park?
WhiteyHead
BOOOO!!! Bring back sabre tooths first!
illegaleagleseagullbeagle
Planet of the cave lions
JoeBob2576
MagnusTheRedCyclops
kpramones
I remember seeing a post noting his tongue in this gif. It's all I can see now
HarleyQuinnRomance
Damn you.
RetardedFireExtinguisher
Yeah.. what can go wrong
FWAKADATHOOM
B-but we spared no expense!
Typhlosion130
actually less than you'd think. so long as if ever released its done in a proper area it'd be the same as any other large cat species.
scout48cav
I'm not sure bringing cave lions back is a good idea
LoganDodson
I mean, at the rate humans are degrading this planet, it might be a good idea to perfect these techniques as more contemporary species go ex
scout48cav
Agreed, but reviving apex predators without also reviving their food chain might result in unintended consequences :)
theitinerantnaturalist
That food chain exists. Cave lions mainly are reindeer.
theitinerantnaturalist
Cave lions went extinct recently and coexisted with today's living species. Nothing really would go wrong
Mariodekabro
it wont be a true clone it will be a hybrid
dannishadow
Like, mixed between the extinct lions and modern lions?
klaxor
Not exactly. It will have the egg of a modern lion, but that egg will have its genetic material removed, then replaced with the extinct one.
LoganDodson
What about the mitochondrial DNA - will that be from the egg donor?
ThatSpiceyWhale
It'll be similar to what they do with egg donors in people. So the DNA will be >1% of the egg donor, really.
wolflegend9
I saw a documentary about something like this in '93. Some bio company cloned the ancient predecessors of birds. People died; bad idea.
Gryg
I know this is a joke, but the security in jurassic park is worse than the security in most zoos. Let me have my dinosaurs
goflyblind
i saw that one too!
Xarpia
It`s a lion, not a dinosaur. :). It will be fine. It is no bigger than a tiger.
SugarTulips
FloodingWaters
IT WAS PHIL TIPPET'S FAULT!! He was the supervisor.
t3hcynic
[Looks at Flooding Waters] Thank you for the truth. [Looks at Phil Tippet] You had ONE JOB, Phil!
cheeseguy3412
I knew this comment would be here, but I checked just in case it wasn't. +14th point to you good sir.
wolflegend9
People died Phil!
Killdozer221
That moment when you realize 1993 was 24 years ago...
wolflegend9
https://media.tenor.co/images/2f0ea703687791f660128ce459721bd3/raw
PlZZATHEHUTT
They spared no expense. Except on security, IT, Park management and transportation
Newthoenikker
Literally the whole fucking point of the books was that no amount of preparedness can account for the adaptation of life.
Newthoenikker
Like, seriously, Malcolm's whole fucking character was telling them that shit will go unpredictable the ENTIRE story
PandraPierva
And paying that one guy
PlZZATHEHUTT
(that was IT)
PandraPierva
I figured that was not having more than one guy who knew that stupid fucking system they had
BiIICosby
And then they decided to make a friggin' amusement park. At least there's margaritas.
TheGriffin
SAVE THE MARGRITAS
BiIICosby
Jimmy Buffett, man
xR3V0x
They tried to create it in LA, ended bad. Time passed, people forgot, they tried again on a far off island. Still ended bad
theredacted
LA? Really I dont remember reading/seeing that.
HoboNinja91
I hear they're giving it another go soon. If at first you don't succeed try, try, try, try again.
MagnusTheRedCyclops
You know, I'm noticing a trend here...
Muttons1337
People died but hey, at least we've got some margaritas out of it.
Occasionalfunnycomment
NO ONE IS REPORTING ON THE ILLEGALS BE BROUGHT IN FROM THE AMBER! SAD!