Oh good. I hear they were tasty, so hopefully I can try them soon!

Hmmm. Gene modification in mammals, birds, and marsupials could learn enough to modify humans too...

Also, why are they so quick to take on another project when the first two seem to be years away from anything actually viable? Kinda seems like a publicity stunt and cash grab.

Everyone has to have a piece of the cake

“...your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”

We are pretty far from something like that due to ethics. It may happen in china or something far away but ethics committee for things like that are pretty serious

Man we can barely handle the current viruses raging on in birds that aren’t extinct, why on earth are we gonna bring new birds into the mix?

So concerned with they could, they didn’t think they should.

Trying to think of a good pairing wine 🍷with Dodo 🦤

100% GMO Dodo Bird Steaks? Can’t wait to see how internet will react to this.

Where did you hear that? One of the few things we DO know about the Dodo was that it tasted bad.

Total waste of resources like so many things

Ask scientists how many current species will go extinct between now and the rebirth of the dodo? And did we learn nothing from Ice Age? The dodos will just compete with us to consume. They were the ones that ended the melons.

Did you just make up a word? Cometes? :)

You wanna go mammoth hunting or dodo hunting? It’s not gonna be a question. Mammoth hunting rifles will be developed as soon as one is born.

IIRC the reason dodos are extinct is that it was easy to just walk up to them and kill them. That’s no fun for hunting.

marsupials are mammals, by the way (and so are humans).

Wait……there’s a list?

Well the dodo went extinct because it was so tasty. I feel like that is a really good reason to bring it back.

Depends by how good of a hunter you are

Could be like a family theme park where five year olds get to hunt birds and kill them.

Apparently the meat is revolting, and even inedible.

Can we please do passenger pigeons too, that one was a huge mistake on our part.

If they can do birds, I want the passenger pigeon back.

Thats what they want you to think.

"No, don't even try to taste it, it's disgusting. Just leave it to me, I don't deserve no better."

enter the re-de-extinction team

I saw a movie where they did this. It didn't turn out well for the hosts.

Well, it’s hard to do anything without cash, and it’s hard to get cash if no one knows about you.

That’s why like, Tesla announced pre-order for the cyber truck—to gauge interest, get some cash in hand, and to build more interest.

Obviously this isn’t open for pre-orders, but good publicity draws in more investors.

Pretty sure the company behind this only have a few desks in a WeWork office in Austin, though I could be wrong.

They seem a long long way off from from having any sort of concrete evidence that they can actually do this.

If they do make sure vitromeat tech is included so we can eat all the Dodo we want without having to kill them, again.

Exactly. Apparently it was the rats on board Dutch ships who feasted on Dodo eggs which lead to their extinction.

I have always thought Dodos were a lost opportunity for farm animals. I want to put in a request for the first Kentucky Fried Dodo franchise.

Behold, the most thorough and thoroughly fascinating Wikipedia page I have ever encountered while rabbit holing:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo

You can really see the passion the maintainer(s) have for the Dodo.

> Obviously this isn’t open for pre-orders

Why not? I hear Dodos are very friendly (possibly good with kids), and failing that, also delicious.

Reminds me of this: I once met a guy trying to preach Christianity on the street. I did to him that I thought it was all made up. For example on Noahs ark, what did the lions eat?

He replied: what do you think happened to the dodo.

I think Dodo taste good. This is the reason for his extinction. If it will work, we will have something new on plate.

I don't see that as a bad thing I guess unless Austin is some pretty big lab city.

From the article, most of the work is about lab and gene edition. So most of the money should go into that mainly.

Jokes on you, he edited the comment and now you look crazy :)

I do this all the time; start a new project/hobby after finishing about 60% of my previous project/hobby.

One thing that someone will try on humans is this: doubling neuron density.

Birds have double the nerve density of mammals, allowing them to pack a ton of brainpower into small craniums. Figure out how they do that, stick it in people

Sometimes things look exactly like they are. :-)

Its ok- science will fix everything....

Many moos ago, there was a display in the british musem including the last known dodo feather, they had a bit of a clean out and binned it.....

Since when was the Mammoth revived?

Ok but maybe we find out that Dodo's were actually super racist and thats what got them killed and then we're stuck with a population of incredibly racist birds we're afraid to make extinct again. Scientists just don't think about the consequences do they.

It was more likely the introduction of pigs and macaques than rats.

I would think a big pigeon would taste like squab. Plus I’ve heard the Dutch can be fussy eaters.