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[Travis B.]

These so-called "dire wolves" are more just walking, breathing Game of Thrones advertisements than anything else.

[malloc]

On the positive side, this does provide an alternative to the costly process of importing animals for our zoos from countries now under staggering tariffs. Instead of importing giraffes from Africa, we can simply engineer their closest American relative, the pronghorn, into passable facsimiles. Granted these fake giraffes would have a serious case of the zoomies owing to their pronghorn roots which would make housing them tricky.

[Travis B.]

On the positive side, this does provide an alternative to the costly process of importing animals for our zoos from countries now under staggering tariffs. Instead of importing giraffes from Africa, we can simply engineer their closest American relative, the pronghorn, into passable facsimiles. Granted these fake giraffes would have a serious case of the zoomies owing to their pronghorn roots which would make housing them tricky.

All the time, effort, and money put into producing these fake "dire wolves" would be far better put to use saving actual endangered species that exist in the wild from extinction.

[malloc]

All the time, effort, and money put into producing these fake "dire wolves" would be far better put to use saving actual endangered species that exist in the wild from extinction.

Well yes, I was trying to make a joke. Certainly I'm not trying to glaze these tech-bros.

[keenir]

On the positive side, this does provide an alternative to the costly process of importing animals for our zoos from countries now under staggering tariffs.

most zoos try to avoid importing from the wild lately anyway, long before COVID and tarrifs.

Instead of importing giraffes from Africa, we can simply engineer their closest American relative, the pronghorn, into passable facsimiles. Granted these fake giraffes would have a serious case of the zoomies owing to their pronghorn roots which would make housing them tricky.

we can just import giraffes from Zimbabwe.

[linguistcat]

It's ok malloc, I got your joke

[Raphael]

while it would have been a bad idea if they had really "de-extincted" dire wolves,

Why? Sure, it would have been a waste of money and resources. But there are already creatures somewhat like wolves that are roughly the size of the largest wolves in the world - they're called "wolves". So I don't see why creating some more such creatures would have been that bad.

[Travis B.]

while it would have been a bad idea if they had really "de-extincted" dire wolves,

Why? Sure, it would have been a waste of money and resources. But there are already creatures somewhat like wolves that are roughly the size of the largest wolves in the world - they're called "wolves". So I don't see why creating some more such creatures would have been that bad.

On second thought, to me the main source of harm I can see from creating these 'dire wolves', aside from being a colossal waste of money and resources that could be better used, is if some escaped and bred with real wolves and genetically polluted them.

[alice]

On the positive side, this does provide an alternative to the costly process of importing animals for our zoos from countries now under staggering tariffs. Instead of importing giraffes from Africa, we can simply engineer their closest American relative, the pronghorn, into passable facsimiles. Granted these fake giraffes would have a serious case of the zoomies owing to their pronghorn roots which would make housing them tricky.

Actually, you have a good point. What other exciting new AMERICAN!!! specieses can we expect to see in the future?

[keenir]

On the positive side, this does provide an alternative to the costly process of importing animals for our zoos from countries now under staggering tariffs. Instead of importing giraffes from Africa, we can simply engineer their closest American relative, the pronghorn, into passable facsimiles. Granted these fake giraffes would have a serious case of the zoomies owing to their pronghorn roots which would make housing them tricky.

Actually, you have a good point. What other exciting new AMERICAN!!! specieses can we expect to see in the future?

American Lion
American Cheetah
sadly, there's no American Short-Faced Bear, just a Short-Faced Bear

[Raphael]

Has anyone ever done a filk/parody version of Blowin' in the Wind that simply replaced the title words with "42"? I couldn't find anything like that through the usual Internet search methods, but perhaps someone here knows something I don't.