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Feb 23 2012 06:46pm
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Pah! Cool, but... I feel like we have enough invasive species that we needn't be engineering more. I'm all for progress. I just wish it made more sense sometimes.

I'm not going to read that... can anyone tell me if the scientist did any more than thaw it with a blow dryer and put it on a damp paper towel in a windowsill?


I'm sure there was some reconstruction of a degraded genome involved.

I've yet to full read the article, but 30,000 years is a long time and the damage must have been apparent.
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Feb 26 2012 02:55pm
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Kung Pow Mammoth in Oyster Sauce.

Yum.

Regardless, this is pretty fucking cool.

I can see the creationists having a fit over this and potentially squashing good research, however... >_<


I'm missing the Mistical Science here.........

Mr. Gubin said the study has demonstrated that tissue can survive ice conservation for tens of thousands of years.

Frozen Plant seeds thawed and allowed to grow. Heck my wife does this all the time. How does this have anything to do with a creationist argument?

Haters gonna hate :P

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Feb 26 2012 08:14pm
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I'm missing the Mistical Science here.........

Mr. Gubin said the study has demonstrated that tissue can survive ice conservation for tens of thousands of years.

Frozen Plant seeds thawed and allowed to grow. Heck my wife does this all the time. How does this have anything to do with a creationist argument?

Haters gonna hate :P


God has a plan for everything and that encompasses its extinction.

When we fiddle with the natural flow of these things it can be viewed as 'bastardous'.

Mind you that this study is a precursor to repopulative studies that will undoubtedly follow.
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Feb 26 2012 09:15pm
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God has a plan for everything and that encompasses its extinction.


the statistical nature of quantum mechanics suggests otherwise

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Feb 26 2012 09:41pm
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the statistical nature of quantum mechanics suggests otherwise


Ah ha, but now you're attempting to bring in a tangent to a subject that it doesn't fit in.

That's like trying to blend oil and water.

Don't let me misrepresent myself; I am a man of science. On that note, don't let yourself be misrepresented with paradoxical, childish arguments.
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Feb 26 2012 09:53pm
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Ah ha, but now you're attempting to bring in a tangent to a subject that it doesn't fit in.

That's like trying to blend oil and water.

Don't let me misrepresent myself; I am a man of science. On that note, don't let yourself be misrepresented with paradoxical, childish arguments.


wtf are you talking about

theres nothing paradoxical or childish about that statement

the nature of quantum mechanics suggests that things "dont happen for a reason" or that there isnt any kind of plan

you can try and throw all the random words out there you want, but the reality is that you made a statement that science doesn't agree with. thats really all there is to it

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Feb 26 2012 09:57pm
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wtf are you talking about

theres nothing paradoxical or childish about that statement

the nature of quantum mechanics suggests that things "dont happen for a reason" or that there is any kind of plan

you can try and throw all the random words out there you want, but the reality is that you made a statement that science doesn't agree with. thats really all there is to it


Suggests and you're attempting to disprove something that, by definition, is unprovable with science.

The epitome of a paradoxical argument.
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Feb 26 2012 10:02pm
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Suggests and you're attempting to disprove something that, by definition, is unprovable with science.

The epitome of a paradoxical argument.


where in any of my post do you see the word disprove or any derivative of it?

all I said was quantum mechanics suggests what you said isn't true

That statement is completely true, accurate, and theres nothing paradoxical about it.
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Feb 26 2012 10:05pm
all i ever said was you were probably wrong


if i said the world probably isn't going to end tomorrow, you wouldnt start telling me that that was a paradoxial statement
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Feb 26 2012 10:06pm
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where in any of my post do you see the word disprove or any derivative of it?

all I said was quantum mechanics suggests what you said isn't true

That statement is completely true, accurate, and theres nothing paradoxical about it.


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the nature of quantum mechanics suggests that things "dont happen for a reason" or that there isnt any kind of plan


That seemed like a pretty direct method of calling my post false.

Besides, I never called your statement paradoxical. I called the application of it to the constructs of a higher power paradoxical and childish.
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