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[Mikeyj]

[UPDATE] [SPEC] More Headlines

[Mikeyj]

List of side headlines with dates attached, taken from the wiki mirror. The format of updating has changed. Initially all were changed, then some were inserted further down the list (galaxy discovery), and now they are dropping off the bottom as new ones are added at the top.

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New headline added: False Alarm at Ascendancy 13/04/05

[cassandra]

We already know about Alice Zeller from the small article "Judge Suspends Proceedings." But I'm hoping as well that there's something in the article heads. Thanks!

[Mikeyj]

one in the eye for me

[Mikeyj]

More more headlines

# Nuru Decision Upheld
# Thylacine Litter Born
# Drug Costs Dropping

The thylacine is the Tasmanian Wolf, Thylacinus cynocephalus the last animal died in captivity in 1936 and was officially declared extinct in 1986.

It's newsworthy so this is about as common an event as the birth of Pandas for example...so captive breeding program, or cloning?

[erekose]

there was something in the australian news about people extracting DNA from a preserved thylacine corpse awhile back. There was alot of controversy about wether we should clone extinct creatures if we are capaple of doing so. we are fairly close to being able to do that, so perplexians might not be as far ahead of us in this field

[Mikeyj]

You would need to have and extant organism that was closely related enough to play mum...the Thylacine was kind of unique in that although it was dog-like, it was in fact a marsupial, it's hard to think of something that would be suitable. Also it wouldn't really be a Thylacine as other parts of hereditary would be that of the host...for example the mitochondrial DNA.

[POTUS]

Check out this on Thylacine cloning in Australia. Especially the Timeline at the end.

When I anagrammed the first letters of Foster Liddell's story I got "a omelet" and "a telome", which both have to do with biology in that the former requires an egg, and the latter is a well known theory (Telome Theory, Zimmerman) of plant evolution.

This is beginning to scare me about Perplex CIty. Maybe they don't just clone products, but also living things. Maybe getting a 'key' or 'sequence' allows one to be a PC citizen??? And also maybe, PC citizens are in a caste structure whereby the ordinary citizens a falling prey to the tyrannical devlopment and profit overlords, much as this would parallel Earth.

[Mikeyj]

The man's a loon

[POTUS]

They should just try to find some still living in Tasmania I take it - for i know nothing of this biochemistry stuff.

From: naturalworlds.org

[InspJJ]

Slightly more frightening, our press carried reports recently of the imminent cloning of good ole T Rex from some preserved DNA - I know it is highly unlikely but so was Dolly the Sheep a few years back....
They would do it as a small version at first for reasons of safety, they some kid would get bored and flush one down the toilet and next thing you'd have herds of them coming back up the u-bend invading your personal privacy with a nasty nip...

On a saner note I'd rather they cloned endangered species than some fat balding business tycoon with an immortality complex...

[uptownishnyc]

Another thought on the thylacines--

We know the Perplexians are more advanced then us, and could probably have cloned an extinct animal from DNA...

But, why would it neccissarily be exinct in Perplex City? Might be rare, sure, but why extinct? And if it truly is a DIFFERENT world, how would they come up with the same name for the same animal before they ever discovered Earth (thinking of course that they had discovered the animal long before the few last years with knowledge of "earth")?

Or did they somehow clone OUR extinct species in their world? Maybe with the help of the cube itself?

[POTUS]

UptownishNY said:

[leakingpen]

actually, you could raise it in an artificial womb, as for mitochondrial, we have several that were preserved in alchohol. you could introduce mitochondria that way.

the big issue would be learned behaviors of the pups / lack thereof

say..

is it possible that the key is a device that does a quick genetic breakdown, via a quick sting or skin cells? thus verifiying you.

[uptownishnyc]