A real Jurassic Park coming soon???

"Then the age-old question comes up - just because we can do something, should we? I know we are not on the top of the food chain on this planet right now, but if we start making 40-foot dinos with lots of teeth, we could tumble down a few more pegs."

Okay - this must be a joke - right? What do you mean we are going to try and make "de-extinction" a real thing? And how is this even possible? Using Amber like Michael Crinton suggested in his now famous book Jurassic Park? Or is it using some substitute cells which are just close enough to fool nature? Where is a good place to try? A T-Rex perhaps? Or maybe something a bit easier - like the Dodo Bird.

Well then, a Dodo Bird it is. A Texas company, called Colossal Biosciences, is going to try to use a Nicobar Pigeon (a close living relative of the Dodo Bird), to try and tweak the DNA just enough to bring back this relic from the past. But wait - what if this works? What if we can bring back something which is extinct? Does that open the door for other dearly departed critters?Like Dinos? Or maybe some Wooly Mammoths? 

"Oh, what a world" (said the Wicked Witch as she melted in the Wizard of Oz). In ten years, we could have millions of Tesla humanoid robots, walking around town, with their primary objective to clean up all the dino poo which is on the sidewalks. Or speaking of the good Wizard, how about making some flying monkeys? Once you open up Pandora's Box in mixing up some new or former DNA, where does that lead us? Heck, who wants to see a science fiction movie, when all you need do is go out into your front yard.

I think what is happening with this entire field of DNA engineering and gene splicing, is science fiction will so soon start looking like science. Then the age-old question comes up - just because we can do something, should we? I know we are not on the top of the food chain on this planet right now, but if we start making 40-foot dinos with lots of teeth, we could tumble down a few more pegs. I have seen enough of the Jurassic sequels and spin-offs to know this does not always end up well for mankind.

In any event, keep an eye on Texas to see what they are cooking up. In fact, keep an eye on the skies to see if you spot anything which looks a tad like a Dodo Bird. Me? I will be hiding in my bunker, thank you very much!