It remains to be seen if Colossal, with In-Q-Tel’s backing, can make good on its promises. And it’s unclear what, exactly, the intelligence world might gain from the use of CRISPR. But perhaps the CIA shares the company’s altruistic, if vague, motives: “To advance the economies of biology and healing through genetics. To make humanity more human. And to reawaken the lost wilds of Earth. So we, and our planet, can breathe easier.”
Techbros stop making the word "human" creepy and dehumanizing challenge. Difficulty level: MORE HUMAN
We can't even keep a tenth of our current species alive what's the point in this shit. Australia is doing the same for the Tasmanian Tiger.
It's like yeah we can't keep one planet alive but we can transport 7 billion people and entirely terraform another planet
It's novelty. The other species weren't as interesting when they went extinct.
It's like GoFundMe for genetic resurrections. It's all a popularity contest.
It’s like yeah we can’t keep one planet alive but we can transport 7 billion people and entirely terraform another planet
That's the neat part. The techbros don't intend to transport 7 billion. Or 7 million. Or 7 thousand for that matter. :capitalist-laugh:
It’s novelty. The other species weren’t as interesting when they went extinct.
You probably already know, but the term for this is "charismatic megafauna". We mostly only care about big fuzzy animals going extinct.
no more so than the other 1000+ species deleted in the past few hundred years
But perhaps the CIA shares the company’s altruistic, if vague, motives
:sus-soviet:
One of the first missions in the new HITMAN series is a virus "bullet" that can target a specific person id'd by their DNA. It would seem like a common cold to everyone else. I assume fort dietrich and the CIA have something like that in mind, though more scattergunned than that
Like the last James Bond movie where le evil Russians made the virus :so-true:
Or that South African biolab that was attempting to make a virus that targeted black people, while also manufacturing like 70% of europe's MDMA.
I feel like it's been at least a decade now that i've been hearing that cloning wooly mammoths are going to save us from melting permafrost in the siberian tundra so we can avoid the worst of the climate feedback loops. :doubt:
I've never heard the idea that cloning them would save us from melting permafrost. It seems more about bringing back an extinct species for its own sake. If we can figure it out we might be able to bring back some species we're responsible for killing off.
Looks like a different group. They start talking about it 10 minutes in
Is this going to be Acoustic Kitty but much, much, much, much, much, much bigger?
The first time I heard about Acoustic Kitty - I was 100% sure it was pure copypasta shared by dipshit redditors. But I was wrong...
Acoustic Kitty is a CIA project launched by the Central Intelligence Agency Directorate of Science & Technology, which in the 1960s intended to use cats to spy on the Kremlin and Soviet embassies. In an hour-long procedure a veterinary surgeon implanted a microphone in the cat's ear canal, a small radio transmitter at the base of its skull and a thin wire into its fur.
"economies of biology and healing" is a deeply depressing phrase :stress:
Destroying the environment and depleting the quality of life on Earth to make number go up, but because it says "biology and healing" it sounds vaguely wholesome too! Someone at a board meeting got praised for that one! :eco-porky:
It sounds vaguely wholesome and naturalistic and stuff but also continues the destructive processes that capitalism requires to make number go up. :eco-porky:
When techbros say "more human" they mean superpowers for themselves, subjugation for you. :capitalist-laugh:
could not think of a worse group on the planet to play god
would genuinely trust ISIS more
Ok but as a climatologist it would actually be super based if we tried to seriously bring back the mammoth steppe
Steppe Mammoth
You are like a little baby. Watch This
In 2015, a study based on extensive research of fragmentary leg bone fossils suggested that P. namadicus may have been the largest land mammal ever
"While skeptics doubt the prospects for de-extinction, the CIA’s venture capital firm deems powerful genetic manipulation tools worth the money." State powered capital wastes money on something that will not stop the West from falling.
They're resurrecting Hannibal's elephants and head straight for Rome
