Mammoth
I never made a tribute to Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park, who passed away a few weeks ago. He was a titan in the publishing industry, and sci fi fans around the world will miss his contributions.
The NY Times today published an article about the Jurassic Park concept: Regenerating a Mammoth. Crichton didn’t invent the concept, of course, but he made a good movie out of it. This is exciting stuff. I don’t know if they should do it because part of me still remembers the fighting dinosaurs in the movie, but it’s fascinating that they probably can.
Still, even though this may seem a protection against extinction, we need to do more to protect the species that we already have. My son has a book about blue whales, and I was reading how they went from a population around 330,000 to an estimated current population of around 5,000. If we were to lose the blue whale, we’d lose the largest animal in history. We should fight like crazy to make sure our way of living doesn’t hurt these animals, and we should always realize that we can’t do better than nature–that $10 M price tag on the Mammoth should remind us of this.
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