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		Eleven-year-old boy discovers one of the most exquisitely preserved wooly mammoths ever. LET THE CLONING BEGIN (io9.com)		34
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Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom		2012-10-04 04:35:31 PM

7 votes:

Jesus, another thread about Ron Livingston's sister??

Louisiana_Sitar_Club		2012-10-04 07:11:19 PM

6 votes:

FloydA		2012-10-04 04:20:24 PM

6 votes:

15 year-old male that weighed half a ton

What's his login?

JoeJitsu		2012-10-04 03:58:54 PM

6 votes:

Beerguy: FTA:

"Yevgeny ran home to tell his parents, who in turned alerted the local paleontologists."

So, the parents have the local Paleontologists on speed dial?

"Yes, Mr. Salinder? Another mammoth discovery? We'll get right on it. Quick, to the Paleontologicalmobile!"

Day_Old_Dutchie		2012-10-04 03:42:18 PM

5 votes:

Vectron		2012-10-04 03:41:34 PM

4 votes:

Did it have saddle for Jesus?

FloydA		2012-10-04 06:18:51 PM

2 votes:

DingleberryMoose: FTFA: Because the remains were buried in the permafrost, the scienctists had to use traditional tools such as axes and picks, plus a specially designed device that allowed them to thaw ice layers with the help of steam. And even with the help of these tools, it still took them a week to get the entire thing out of the ground.

It appears to have been a mammoth undertaking.

We mastadon something very bad to deserve that pun.

DingleberryMoose		2012-10-04 06:10:30 PM

2 votes:

FTFA: Because the remains were buried in the permafrost, the scienctists had to use traditional tools such as axes and picks, plus a specially designed device that allowed them to thaw ice layers with the help of steam. And even with the help of these tools, it still took them a week to get the entire thing out of the ground.

It appears to have been a mammoth undertaking.

zarberg		2012-10-04 05:27:55 PM

2 votes:

I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you're using here, it didn't require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could, and before you even knew what you had, you patented it, and packaged it, and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox

/must go faster

Matthew Keene		2012-10-04 04:25:18 PM

2 votes:

I grew up in the 1960s. These things were all over Kansas. By dad hit one with the Rambler once.

grokca		2012-10-04 04:14:49 PM

2 votes:

My hump, My hump, my lovely mammoth hump.

Nakito		2012-10-04 04:08:17 PM

2 votes:

Ye cannot serve both God and mammoth.

pkticker		2012-10-04 03:50:34 PM

2 votes:

Beerguy: FTA:

"Yevgeny ran home to tell his parents, who in turned alerted the local paleontologists."

So, the parents have the local Paleontologists on speed dial?

Police, Fire, EMS - 911
Paleontologists - 912

Gyrfalcon		2012-10-04 03:44:32 PM

2 votes:

I'd like to see them clone a wooly mammoth.

Sadly, they haven't even cloned a regular mammoth yet.

itsfullofstars		2012-10-04 03:42:45 PM

2 votes:

If you have kids, you read the article in this voice:

images.forbes.com

Scruffinator		2012-10-04 03:40:29 PM

2 votes:

Let this abomination unto the lord begin!

Gyrfalcon		2012-10-05 12:12:24 AM

1 votes:

HortusMatris: syzygy whizz: HortusMatris: Ooo! Clone me a pet mammoth! I'll name him Snuffleupagus and build a cart that he can pull me around town in.

Will you still love him and pet him and squeeze him?

Even though he is named 'Snuffleupagus' and not 'George'?

Oh, I would! Even though no one would believe that I had a real mammoth as a pet, they would tell me he was just an imaginary friend. I'd show them, though. One day they would all see him, too, and then we could all sing songs and play games together!

How awesome would it be to have an imaginary mammoth as a pet, and have everyone make fun of you; and then one day you tell all your classmates to come meet him down by the river, and then STOMP! TRUMPET! SCREAM! STOMP! FLATTEN!

I think it would be awesome, anyway.

Somaticasual		2012-10-04 10:54:35 PM

1 votes:

spudvol: FTA

Because the remains were buried in the permafrost, the scienctists had to use traditional tools such as axes and picks, plus a specially designed device that allowed them to thaw ice layers with the help of steam. And even with the help of these tools, it still took them a week to get the entire thing out of the ground.

Hair dryer?

Heh. I know it's rural, but are they really still stuck at clothes irons?

mudpants		2012-10-04 09:54:04 PM

1 votes:

I want a pigmy wooly mammoth, like the pigmy hippos and pigmy goats and pigmy horses. But more wooly mammothy. I'll feed it and change it's litter box and such.

Mr.Poops		2012-10-04 07:09:29 PM

1 votes:

DeadMouseTails: Wooly mammoths are one of my favorite extinct animals. I would love it if this tours, like Sue did so many years ago. She was beautiful.

Yeah, I don't get why so many women decide to shave these days.

Mirthman		2012-10-04 06:27:09 PM

1 votes:

For the Entree round Chef's, if you open your baskets, you will find: Quinoa, Bean sprouts, Nutella, and 30,000 year old Mammoth

Jacobin		2012-10-04 06:04:14 PM

1 votes:

omgbears: Beerguy: So, the parents have the local Paleontologists on speed dial?

Was curious about this too, do you just go look in the yellow pages under "Paleontologists"? Who even has a phone book these days?

In Russia, every village has a paleontologist

Somaticasual		2012-10-04 05:31:23 PM

1 votes:

zarberg: I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you're using here, it didn't require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could, and before you even knew what you had, you patented it, and packaged it, and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox

/must go faster

The apple threads are usually under "geek"..

DeathCipris		2012-10-04 04:58:08 PM

1 votes:

For some weird reason, the tagline as "Clowning"

"The Clowning has begun!"
images1.wikia.nocookie.net

\Too much ATHF

ghare		2012-10-04 04:45:07 PM

1 votes:

The Jami Turman Fan Club: Seems like we have the DNA for it. I would think they could at least make a mammoth-elephant hybrid.

/More interested in saber-toothed tigers.
//And Awks

I'd like aurochs

Banned on the Run		2012-10-04 04:25:45 PM

1 votes:

The finest mammoth specimen ever is named after this kid.
This kid's nerd-cred is on the same order of magnitude as 50 cent's street cred

cwheelie		2012-10-04 04:11:20 PM

1 votes:

What hump?
25.media.tumblr.com

HortusMatris		2012-10-04 04:08:14 PM

1 votes:

Ooo! Clone me a pet mammoth! I'll name him Snuffleupagus and build a cart that he can pull me around town in.

WhippingBoy		2012-10-04 03:58:43 PM

1 votes:

Beerguy: FTA:

"Yevgeny ran home to tell his parents, who in turned alerted the local paleontologists."

So, the parents have the local Paleontologists on speed dial?

Don't you?

ows		2012-10-04 03:53:34 PM

1 votes:

MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE!!!!!

texdent		2012-10-04 03:51:26 PM

1 votes:

Has a bad feeling about this

Slartibeerfest		2012-10-04 03:44:46 PM

1 votes:

I'm merely saying that life... finds a way.

Beerguy		2012-10-04 03:44:43 PM

1 votes:

FTA:

"Yevgeny ran home to tell his parents, who in turned alerted the local paleontologists."

So, the parents have the local Paleontologists on speed dial?