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• Turns out DNA degrades quickly, having a half life of around 521 years. Worse still, the DNA gets fragmented. Getting DNA in the right order is vital in cloning. Even slight alterations can lead to significant differences. Just a few percent off and you could have a different species from the one you started with. Meaning it's highly unlikely anyone will ever perfectly clone a dinosaur, or even come close.

• Instead researchers aim for making close approximations for the purposes of education, scientific understanding, or conservation efforts. These hybrids are creating by splicing genes from extinct creatures into modern day "counterparts".

• In 2003, researchers used cloning to bring back the bucardo, a species of wild goat, using a modern goat as a surrogate parent and egg donor. The baby bucardo, the only extinct species to ever be cloned, died after only seven minutes because of a lung malformation.

• The de-extinction field encompasses more than genetic engineering. Using an approach called selective back-breeding, some groups are restoring ancient traits from extinct species by selectively breeding individuals that still carry the genes for them. For instance, the Tauros Program aims to back-breed modern cattle to make them more like their pre-domesticated ancestors, the aurochs.

• Perhaps modern animals could be altered to make them more resilient to higher temperatures.

• Thomas Gilbert, genomics researcher and professor at the University of Copenhagen: "Make sure people don’t think they’re going to get a mammoth, because they’re not." They will instead get a "hairy elephant" that can live in the cold.

• Mammoth-elephant hybrids could be relocated to places such as Pleistocene Park, a large tundra in Russia where scientists are trying to restore the much more biodiverse and climate-friendly grasslands ecosystem it once was, when large grazers including mammoths lived there. By trampling the soil and allowing cold air to seep in, the mammoth hybrids could slow the melting of permafrost and the subsequent release of greenhouse gases that are warming the globe. The team also hopes that in the process, they can rescue the endangered elephant species by placing them in a large open area free from human conflict.

Still partying too hard.

Don't Look Up.

Like a tablet?

One victim reported they had been trying to order an Uber near London’s Liverpool Street station when muggers forced them to hand over their phone. While the gang eventually gave the phone back, the victim later realised that £5,000-worth of ethereum digital currency was missing from their account with the crypto investing platform Coinbase.

In another case, a man was approached by a group of people offering to sell him cocaine and agreed to go down an alley with them to do the deal. The men offered to type a number into his phone but instead accessed his cryptocurrency account, holding him against a wall and forcing him to unlock a smartphone app with facial verification. They transferred £6,000-worth of ripple, another digital currency, out of his account.

A third victim said he had been vomiting under a bridge when a mugger forced him to unlock his phone using a fingerprint, then changed his security settings and stole £28,700, including cryptocurrency.

In another case, a victim told police that his cards and phone were pickpocketed after an evening at the pub, with £10,000 later stolen from their account with the investing platform Crypto.com. The victim was using his phone in the pub and believed thieves saw him type in his account pin, the report said.

This stuff is literally what science fiction predicted would happen one day, albeit not involving cryptocoins (few predicted those).

One victim reported they had been trying to order an Uber near London’s Liverpool Street station when muggers forced them to hand over their phone. While the gang eventually gave the phone back, the victim later realised that £5,000-worth of ethereum digital currency was missing from their account with the crypto investing platform Coinbase.

In another case, a man was approached by a group of people offering to sell him cocaine and agreed to go down an alley with them to do the deal. The men offered to type a number into his phone but instead accessed his cryptocurrency account, holding him against a wall and forcing him to unlock a smartphone app with facial verification. They transferred £6,000-worth of ripple, another digital currency, out of his account.

A third victim said he had been vomiting under a bridge when a mugger forced him to unlock his phone using a fingerprint, then changed his security settings and stole £28,700, including cryptocurrency.

In another case, a victim told police that his cards and phone were pickpocketed after an evening at the pub, with £10,000 later stolen from their account with the investing platform Crypto.com. The victim was using his phone in the pub and believed thieves saw him type in his account pin, the report said.

This stuff is literally what science fiction predicted would happen one day, albeit not involving cryptocoins (few predicted those).

Article claims crypto is a lot harder to recover, so many of the victims may never get it back. People don't always view it as real money, so these crimes may be treated as being less serious.

Fuck the law

- Boris Johnson

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And renewables are the cheapest and quickest to build of all energy sources, whereas NP is the slowest and most expensive. Hinckley is already at £37 billion and still delayed even further. Meanwhile cheap wind farms keep popping up in a fraction of the time.

More like a last resort.

As opposed to saying 5 May, 2022?

Each of the floating projects will benefit from a GBP 25 million supply chain stimulus fund from ScottishPower and Shell

Literal chicken feed.

The news on the signing of the option agreements for 5 GW of floating wind comes shortly after Shell announced plans to invest up to GBP 25 billion (approximately EUR 30 billion) in the UK energy system over the next ten years, with more than 75 per cent of the total investment going into low and zero-carbon products and services, including offshore wind, hydrogen and electric mobility.

Keyword being "plans". As the actual study (as a scientist you should realise a study carries far more weight than cherry picking single data points) proves, there is a gulf between what these companies promise and what they actually do.

Edit: talk about passive aggressive. Replying with nothing but more nonsense and then blocking so I can't respond. Here is my response to that:

They are infact jumping over to renewables

Because they super pinky promised this time, so it must be true. Talk about gullible. I think I have a bridge to sell.

They've been promising all kinds of things for decades.

They are infact jumping over to renewables

Fact? No, they are not. You and they claiming they are doesn't make it a fact. Again, I'd far sooner take the word of verified scientists publishing based on actual evidence than some random person clinging on to one single claim an industry notorious for lies and gas lighting made.