Scientists found some 700 year old eggs in the muddy bottom of a lake in Minnesota – well, question #1 on my mind, which was not mentioned in the article, is how did they know to look on the bottom of a lake in Minnesota? Did they think “By Yiminy, this looks like a darned good place for some fish eggs that have been dormant for centuries” or maybe they were looking for something else. I don’t know.
Then, they decided to hatch out these eggs, which weren’t even fish eggs, they were some kind of medieval water flea, and I don’t believe the article mentioned how many, so there’s question #2, just how many of these little completely unknown entities did you guys unleash on the unwitting world? Why couldn’t you have brought back some cool ancient animal, like the woolly mammoth or unicorns? And haven’t you seen any monster movies, ever in your life? These things have a way of breeding at a level of speed that is way beyond exponential someh0w, and evolving in the first generation into tall building leaping dinosaurs with death in their iron claws and snapping jaws.
The amazing thing about this story, though, is that it worked! Despite my paranoid film fueled fantasies, this is pretty amazing technology which could have a lot of brilliant uses, science being the two sided magic sword that it is. Maybe it will lead to advances in suspended animation which will allow us to cryogenically preserve patients until a donor becomes available or until science can cure their illness. Maybe these advances in cryogenics will allow shipfuls of cosmonaut colonists, thousands of them stacked on top of each other, to travel to distant planets and arrive unaged and fresh as a daisy.
I’ve heard it suggested that it would be possible to bring back (through cloning, which isn’t exactly the same technology but I’m just thinking out loud here) Neanderthals. I’m not so sure that would be a great idea, either. Imagine the poor little Neanderthal kid who finds out at age 6 or so that his parents aren’t his real parents, or even of the same species, which would explain why he doesn’t look like the other little kids.
Some good, some bad. Comme toujours.
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