Frozen mice cloned - are woolly mammoths next?

[BERIGAN]

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Japanese scientists have cloned mice whose bodies were frozen for as long 16 years and said on Monday it may be possible to use the technique to resurrect mammoths and other extinct species.

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews...=22&sp=true

[Free For All]

Mice-icles?

[Quincy]

I'm all for it. Love the woolly mammoth! Once one grows big enough sick 'im on the Geico cavemen. While we're at it, how about a saber-toothed kitty? Tie it in with Survivor somehow, then maybe I'd watch.

[sal]

I can see this thread getting moved to the politics/religion forum in no time

[7/4]

The Geico cavemen are highly charged politically correct subject matter. It could go either way.

Allen? Chris? Got anything to push it in the right direction?

[Chuck Nessa]

I see lots of delightful snacks going away as a result of this thread.

[Jim Alfredson]

I say we not only regenerate the wooly mammoths, but we also bestow upon them a super-human intellect with which they shall become our overlords and lead us into a new age of Enlightenment.

[Joe G]

I say we not only regenerate the wooly mammoths, but we also bestow upon them a super-human intellect with which they shall become our overlords and lead us into a new age of Enlightenment.

I'm game.

[7/4]

Better wooly mammoths with super-human intellect than those prophetic revelation creatures...

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Edited November 5, 2008 by 7/4

[DTMX]

I say we not only regenerate the wooly mammoths, but we also bestow upon them a super-human intellect with which they shall become our overlords and lead us into a new age of Enlightenment.

And when the mammoths become corrupted by power we will regenerate the mastodons to keep them in check. And the symbols of the two political parties will be a hairy elephant and a slightly less-hairy elephant.

[Jazzmoose]

Mice-icles?

Yeah, if only Moose could have lived long enough to see this...

[Jazzmoose]

I say we not only regenerate the wooly mammoths, but we also bestow upon them a super-human intellect with which they shall become our overlords and lead us into a new age of Enlightenment.

I, for one, welcome...oh, never mind; that line's as stale as a mastadon...