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16 Dec 2006 02:20 pm
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The first extinction of a large mammal in recent decades.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_River_Dolphin#2006_expedition
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16 Dec 2006 02:33 pm
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who cares about a bunch of chink fish
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I matters because it is an indication that something is extremely wrong in the ecosystem.
And has much as a Chinese river dolphins have no direct impact on your life, it does mean that larger a larger ecosystem of plant and animal life is effected which could have an impact on your life.
Everything you have comes from this planet, and if we don’t have the diversity or natural resources, then we have nothing. Your food, computer, house, clothes and everything else doesn’t just appear out of thin air you knowsmiley. The more animals and plants that become extinct the less we have to live off of.

Alright I know, I know, kinda sounds like hippy talk...but that doesn’t make it untrue!
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treeplanter wrote: I matters because it is an indication that something is extremely wrong in the ecosystem.
And has much as a Chinese river dolphins have no direct impact on your life, it does mean that larger a larger ecosystem of plant and animal life is effected which could have an impact on your life.
Everything you have comes from this planet, and if we don’t have the diversity or natural resources, then we have nothing. Your food, computer, house, clothes and everything else doesn’t just appear out of thin air you knowsmiley. The more animals and plants that become extinct the less we have to live off of.

Alright I know, I know, kinda sounds like hippy talk...but that doesn’t make it untrue!

would we expect anything less from someone named tree planter?
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16 Dec 2006 03:24 pm
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Can’t they just clone more dolphins?
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16 Dec 2006 03:24 pm
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cloning isn’t that advanced or easy yet.
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They have cloned people’s pets before, so I’m pretty sure it is advanced enough to clone a couple dolphins.
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Atresac wrote:
would we expect anything less from someone named tree planter?



Heehee, I suppose not, but the tree planting I’m referring to isn’t really the environmental kind...more the capitalist kind (I have to pay for school somehow!)
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ramunematt wrote: They have cloned people’s pets before, so I’m pretty sure it is advanced enough to clone a couple dolphins.

yeah, but it’s not that easy.
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ramunematt wrote: They have cloned people’s pets before, so I’m pretty sure it is advanced enough to clone a couple dolphins.



Ha, well that’s not really a soloution.
But also, it’s veeeerry expensive to do.
There’s a lot more to an animal then just it’s genes, you can’t just clone something and then throw it back into the wild and hope it’ll live.
There’s HUGE ethical problems with that as well, just on the environmental side. What would the impacts of clones in the wild do? What about clone offspring? Gene defects? disease. I dunno lots of stuff.
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Atresac wrote:
ramunematt wrote: They have cloned people’s pets before, so I’m pretty sure it is advanced enough to clone a couple dolphins.

yeah, but it’s not that easy.


Are the dolphins completely extinct or are there a few left?
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ramunematt wrote:
Atresac wrote:
ramunematt wrote: They have cloned people’s pets before, so I’m pretty sure it is advanced enough to clone a couple dolphins.

yeah, but it’s not that easy.


Are the dolphins completely extinct or are there a few left?

I’m pretty sure they are completely gone. They can’t find any more.
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Atresac wrote:
ramunematt wrote:
Atresac wrote:
ramunematt wrote: They have cloned people’s pets before, so I’m pretty sure it is advanced enough to clone a couple dolphins.

yeah, but it’s not that easy.


Are the dolphins completely extinct or are there a few left?

I’m pretty sure they are completely gone. They can’t find any more.


Well it was only declared functionally extinct. They aren’t 100% sure it’s completely extinct. If they have some of the DNA then in a few years when we have the tech we can probably bring them back.
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ramunematt wrote:

Well it was only declared functionally extinct. They aren’t 100% sure it’s completely extinct. If they have some of the DNA then in a few years when we have the tech we can probably bring them back.



I think it’s faulty reasoning to assume that we can recreate what nature has taken eons to do (see my note abovesmiley).

From my knowledge, it seems to me we end up mucking things up more then fixing them when we assume we know more then we really do.
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They’re only dolphins, it’s not going to be like cloning dinosaurs. Off with the cloning!!
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ramunematt wrote: They’re only dolphins, it’s not going to be like cloning dinosaurs. Off with the cloning!!



I hope they don’t start cloning youwink geesh!
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treeplanter wrote:
ramunematt wrote: They’re only dolphins, it’s not going to be like cloning dinosaurs. Off with the cloning!!



I hope they don’t start cloning youwink geesh!


What a great idea!!!
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Do you not understand? This is only the beginning. Surely, there will be more creatures dying out because of us. It will get bad.
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