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Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2025 1:19 pm
These so-called "dire wolves" are more just walking, breathing Game of Thrones advertisements than anything else.
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Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2025 4:08 pm
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.
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Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2025 4:42 pm
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 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 4:08 pm 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.
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Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2025 5:33 pm
Well yes, I was trying to make a joke. Certainly I'm not trying to glaze these tech-bros.
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Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2025 6:48 pm
most zoos try to avoid importing from the wild lately anyway, long before COVID and tarrifs.
we can just import giraffes from Zimbabwe.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.
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Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2025 10:54 am
It's ok malloc, I got your joke 
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Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2025 11:05 am
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.
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Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2025 11:15 am
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.Raphael wrote: ↑Thu Apr 10, 2025 11:05 amWhy? 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.
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Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2025 2:35 pm
Actually, you have a good point. What other exciting new AMERICAN!!! specieses can we expect to see in the future?malloc wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 4:08 pm 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.
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Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2025 5:55 pm
American Lionalice wrote: ↑Thu Apr 10, 2025 2:35 pmActually, you have a good point. What other exciting new AMERICAN!!! specieses can we expect to see in the future?malloc wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 4:08 pm 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.
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Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2025 10:50 am
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.