Are Mammoth coming back — science, really?
Ok, I am currently reading a science fiction novella about a sometime in the near future time when the Wooly Mammoth, or at least some version has been brough back to life. Apparently the humans of that time have NOT managed to do a good job of saving the Earth from climate change or much of anything else. However, somehow they have achieved other forms of science.
The title of the Novella is The Tusks of Extinction and is set in Siberia and fueled by Russian interests. A female ecologist named Damira was active in the effort to save the elephant from the horrible poaching of the elephant population in the search for Ivory. This shows us that even in the time of massive destruction of the social and environmental conditions, greed seems to win out over decency.
The story posulates that at some point it is possible to implant the “soul” or at least “mentality” of a human deceased into the body of another being, so Damira becomes the Mammoth version of herself and teaches Mammoths how to survive and use their superior physical strenght to fight against the humans trying to kill them for their horns.
My only reason for going to Google was to see what the difference between a Mammoth and an Elephant actually is, and found a creature tht looks like the picture at the top, except of course more life-like and not so cartoonish. But this was to see the differences because the story is full of references to both animals.
Well, it turns out that, in a seeming repetition of Juraissic Park’s premise, scienctists are sharing that they may be on the cusp of actually bringing the Mammoth back to the planet. They emphasis that the time is in the future and this beings will not be exactly the Mammoth of 4,000 years ago, which is also a point of the Novella by the way.
Of course, there is nothing in the actual reports about moving the mind of a human to a Mammoth body, but can you imagine if that was ever achieved, what our scientific community might come up with next.
It is kind of scary when I think about the implications. Imagine bringing species that went extinct 4,000 or more years ago back to the planet while not cleaning up the climate mess, we have caused with pollution and the use of non-renewal fossil fuel.
Having Mammoths running around on the planet will NOT increase our likelihood of survival due to the pollution of the planet, but hey, at least science is still moving ahead. /snark
