Wooly Mammoths on the Comeback

[shacker]

CNN reports that a wildlife park in Siberia is planning to use DNA from wooly mammoths to artificially impregnate an Indian elephant, then repeat with its offspring. Within 50 years, they plan to have a living creature that is 88% wooly mammoth. There are estimated to be 10 million wooly mammoths buried beneath the Siberian permafrost

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what about the energy usage???

[baald]

the difference in clipping by hand or using a power weedeater to clip that patch of grass in a minute is the equivalent of leaving an 11 watt energy miser light bulb on for an hour...

Re: what about the energy usage???

[shacker]

Ah, but the satisfaction of clipping it by hand... priceless (at least that's what Amy would say).