CIA Joins Jurassic Park Agenda to Resurrect Extinct Species

What are we doing here, guys?

Are we doing Jurassic Park or what?

I’m bored and that would be at least interesting.

Popular Mechanics:

The biotech company Colossal is actively working to reincarnate both the ancient woolly mammoth and the thylacine. Now, for its next trick, the Dallas-based firm is bringing back the dodo, the flightless bird that went extinct roughly 350 years ago from the island of Mauritius.

Colossal is using the backing of a surprising government partner to sequence the dodo bird’s genome using stem cell technology, the company says.

The process for bringing the dodo back includes genome understanding, tissue cultures, and interspecies surrogacy. Here’s how it will work: The dodo recreation includes “interspecies germline transfer of pigeon PGCs into a surrogate chicken host.” The Nicobar pigeon, the dodo’s closest living relative, provides the host cells for genome engineering while the Rodrigues solitaire, the dodo’s closest genetic relative, adds additional insights. The chicken offers a foundation of avian genomics and editing.

Colossal had hoped to make the dodo bird part of its early efforts, but additional rounds of funding, including from a venture capital firm funded by the Central Intelligence Agency, has now put the dodo into the official pipeline.

Michael Crichton really was a clever guy. The process described here is similar to what was described in the books.

However, in his story, the scientists use DNA from mosquitoes that bit dinosaurs and then got stuck in sap that turned into amber.

It’s claimed that mosquitoes really did bite dinosaurs, but that you can’t pull the DNA because mosquito DNA pollutes it.

Anyway, there is some question as to whether dinosaurs even existed, at least on the scale that is claimed by the Science.

They still can’t explain how they had sex. Popular Science just had an article admitting this a few days ago.

We’re getting into a lot of science fiction type science, but none of it is especially interesting. I don’t really care about a woolly mammoth, which is just an elephant.

It’s like all these promises of sci-fi deliver these really shitty versions. “Dinosaurs? Oh, not quite, we’ll give you a hairy elephant. Bionic arm? No, sorry, but I can cut your dick off and shape the wound so it looks sort of like a vagina. City on Mars? No sorry, but Jeff Bezos’ girlfriend is riding around in a dick-shaped space plane.”

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