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From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
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Subject: Re: "Texas company raises $200 million to make Jurassic Park happen"
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 09:04:58 -0800
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On 1/17/2025 8:17 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
> On 1/17/25 13:45, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>> "Texas company raises $200 million to make Jurassic Park happen"
>>
>> https://www.chron.com/life/wildlife/article/colossal-biosciences- 
>> mammoth-20038093.php
>>
>> “Colossal Biosciences wants to resurrect the woolly mammoth, the dodo 
>> bird, and the Tasmanian tiger.”
>>
>> You know, the woolly mammoth was killed off by humans for a good 
>> reason.   Walking through people's forts and homes is a bad thing.
>>
>      Certainly from the POV of the locals who  share time with the
> Wooly Mammoth it was a reason to get rid of the annoying pests.
> 
I suspect that the "walking feast!" POV had more to do with it.  (One of 
our ancestors' hunting methods was 'stampede an entire herd off a cliff' 
when one mammoth would provide more meat than they could eat before it 
spoiled.)

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