Re: Bringing Back Mammoths (was Dinosaur Mating Displays)

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> How much money was sunk in the Thylacine cloning attempt already? How much 
> land could have been set aside as a reserve for *living* species? There 
> are a few Tasmanian endemic marsupials which are now on the brink of 
> extinction, but conservation funds were squandered for this inane 
> Thylacine cloning project. Odds are that 1-2 taxa won't make it to 2050, 
> not the least because of the cloning project which at a crucial time 
> siphoned off funds.

I will not accept money as an argument, though, as long as people are 
wasting hundreds of billions of US dollars per year on useless wars. How 
many hours in Iraq, to pick the most prominent example, could the thylacine 
cloning attempt have funded?

> PS: I note that the Thylacine project received a nomination for the
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bent_Spoon_Award
> finding itself in the dear company of homepathic "vaccines", "free energy" 
> generators and "empowered" water. That about says it all.

Ouch. :-)