De-extinction company announces that the dire wolf is back

I completely agree - the larger the species, the less we have to worry about them. The smaller biological(ly active) species get, the more threatening they become to humanity at large. Think Andromeda Strain vs. Jurassic Park.
Indeed. When "JP" came out I was always baffled by people freaked out about de-extincting the T-Rex. A full-grown T-Rex could be *easily* tracked, and could even have a bomb planted in it's noggin so it could be switched off it it ever got uppity; but if someone cranked out an exciting new microbe, we could have interesting times. And then late 2019 came along...
 
Indeed. When "JP" came out I was always baffled by people freaked out about de-extincting the T-Rex. A full-grown T-Rex could be *easily* tracked, and could even have a bomb planted in it's noggin so it could be switched off it it ever got uppity; but if someone cranked out an exciting new microbe, we could have interesting times. And then late 2019 came along...
Every time we thaw a mammoth, dig up a mummy, or dig into the permafrost, we play the lottery to reactivate unknown viruses for which there are no defenses today. So far we have been lucky and all those who have been identified were harmless. But someone will already be thinking of a new version of Tut's curse to use against scientific research.
 
Smaller dinos like Drinker and others might outcompetes some mammals.

Of course, we saw that when the America's were linked by volcanism.

I think South America had a marsupial version of just about everything North America had--until the placentals showed up.

All we got out of the deal was 'possums.

Ick

In today's phys.org there was speculation that some of those transplants--South American Dogs-- had a role in Dire Wolf evolution...so it wasn't just folks with the Gucci test tubes that used dogs as a base--go figure.

Venter's ideas of minimal cells could be interesting. We have been bitten stung and slimed by so many life forms that our DNA is likely not like what we started with.

A think a "minimal human" would wind up being like the hapless Eloi. We are already Morlocks as it stands.
 

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