#161 - Should We Bring Extinct Creatures Back To Life?

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🗓️ 8 February 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Motion: Don't Bring Extinct Creatures back to Life Once a sci-fi fantasy explored in films like “Jurassic Park,” recent biological and technological breakthroughs indicate that reviving extinct creatures could become a reality. Proponents argue that the benefits include correcting mistakes of the past by bringing back extinct ecosystems and organisms. Others argue it's not ethical, or even feasible. Should humans bring extinct creatures back to life? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Dad, I'm hungry!
0:01.6	Right, what do I cook for tea?
0:03.0	Errr, McCain chips. These will be good.
0:05.2	You know they'll come out nice and crispy if you cook them in a rye fryer.
0:08.2	Just say, Alexa, open McCain, and Alexa will help you.
0:12.2	What? You mean if I say Alexa, open McCain, Alexa will open the bag of chips for me?
0:16.4	Not literally open the bag of chips for your dad, but Alexa can tell you how to cook them and give you ideas for tea.
0:21.8	Ah, okay. Alexa, open McCain.
0:24.4	Well done, Dad. Such a tech wizard.
0:26.6	Chip, chip, hooray.
0:27.6	Crispy a fryer perfection with McCain.
0:30.0	APPLAUSE
0:32.0	Remember Jurassic Park, amazing movie, where science brings dinosaurs back from extinction?
0:39.4	The experiment blows up, people get hurt.
0:42.8	But not before actor Jeff Goldblum declares,
0:45.8	scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could,
0:50.0	that they didn't stop to think if they should.
0:53.2	And then a dinosaur eats Jeff Goldblum.
0:57.2	Right now some very smart scientists and thinkers are working on a way to revive not dinosaurs,
1:03.2	but other extinct species or near replicas of them,
1:07.0	like the woolly mammoth, using the gene editing technology known as CRISPR.
1:12.0	To paraphrase Jeff Goldblum, should they?
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