'The Numbers Are Just Horrendous.' Almost 30,000 Species Face Extinction Because of Human Activity

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SNRNXS on July 19th, 2019 at 20:38 UTC »

Mosquitos are the one thing we can’t make extinct huh?

brouevenlift on July 19th, 2019 at 18:25 UTC »

Ark on a chip. Storing the sequences of alleles for each of the available organism genomes and long the data into secure servers. This would affectively creating a library of atgc combinations which one could use to clone said organisms from the sequences into an egg or seed that would become an embryo and so on. By doing this we could grow a baby blue whale on mars with having to bring living blue whales through space to mars, we could just send a copy of the DNA sequence via radio signal across planets. One could just send over the data and use a synthetic womb to grow the whale. Current biotechnology is not advanced enough to accomplish such a feat, but the current challenge shouldn’t prevent the collection, sequencing, and storage of the blue prints for all variants of life. The film Jurassic Park played with similar ideas. The amount of money that would be needed to fund the pursuit of this goal would be great but the resulting data base would have larger ecological and technological value. A library of the genomes of all available organisms so we can in the future can "clone" species that are going go extinct today, granting the ability reproduce a synthetic ecosystem without having to ship live animals

The lunar drove hives. Using self replicating mining machines to industrialize the Moon’s surface without needing manual labor from astronauts. Send a small amount of solar power mining machines to the moon to mine materials to build more mining machines and a factory.

SuicideKingsHigh on July 19th, 2019 at 17:39 UTC »

What are we supposed to do slightly inconvenience ourselves or something?