At least the people in the movie get to die in space. You’d die in Idaho.

Well we know that people are still stupidly sticking their faces where they shouldn’t.

Yay old Weyland-Yutani logo!

I agree, to the extent that there is SO much wrong with Bannon that matters, digging for this minor crap just dilutes the message that he is an existential threat to democracy who will continue to have the ear of the President.

ATTAVA

That is totally true, here’s a quick Russian link and here’s a quick Wikipedia link on the Pleistocene Park.

Why not both? And the heath hen, while we’re at it. And the Labrador duck. Also the Eskimo curlew.

Generally speaking, people who are talking about recovering extinct species and re-introducing them into the wild are serious ecologists. And the environments that they are considering re-introducing them into would probably be improved by having them. Large herbivores like mastodons, for instance, open up woodlands…

There is a Russian ecologist who is working to restore what he calls the “Mammoth Steppe”, which is equivalent to the sub-glacial steppe present in Siberia during and immediately after the last glaciation. He’s trying to assemble a community of megafaunal herbivores to maintain it. Right now he’s getting by with…

I will never get why people are so hung up on bringing back the bland passenger pigeon, a bird that simply looks like a regular pigeon. Why not resurrect the Carolina parakeet, the United States’ only native parrot species?

Re: the “should we” argument.

Anybody interested in the science of de-extinction as well as it’s ethical cons/pros should check out Beth Shapiro’s How to Clone a Mammoth: the science of de-extiction. She’s a phenomenal scientist who’s been at the heart of the issue for a long time now. I haven’t read it yet, but I’m familiar with both her and her…

i dream of the day when i can have a pet thylacine. hell, even the old stories of them show how easily they could have been domesticated, one of which goes that one came into a hunters house on a cold night and slept in front of the fireplace and in the morning it left without harming anything.

I want to pet a Thylacine some day.

We can finally make house hippos. The dream is alive!

I’d love to see the effort done with this. It might actually turn the tide for the African White Rhino, of which there is only 1 male left in the world. If we could get a little genetic diversity or have another rhino give birth to one, it could help repopulate an animal that is, quite literally, at the last of its…

1 I think this was a very solid article, explaining a controversial idea at a good, not-too-technical level, while also giving good arguments for and against the idea.