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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: "Texas company raises $200 million to make Jurassic Park happen" Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 09:48:51 -0800 Organization: nil Lines: 32 Message-ID: <vmgpi4$10v8l$1@dont-email.me> References: <vmej1n$818i$2@dont-email.me> <vmfa13$icf9$1@dont-email.me> <vmgmvp$106gv$1@dont-email.me> Reply-To: blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 18:48:56 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="431fb1fa49ce82587cc0918e8ac3e749"; logging-data="1080597"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19DX6tb5iTF9LOwe68XuRWT" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:LJnqKg8NtI/LWyRHQ7197YoB4YI= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <vmgmvp$106gv$1@dont-email.me> Bytes: 2399 On 1/18/25 09:04, Dimensional Traveler wrote: > 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.) > Mammoth Jerky? But the stampede over a cliff seem more like extermination than hunting. But who knows what the people of the time were thinking and it must have been a nuisance to have the walking feast walk right thru the camp. Forts is surely speculation.. bliss