Again, if you go back to the dinosaur example,
there are people today
that would give their eye teeth
to see and hear and smell dinosaurs, if you will,
and yet probably don't give a lot of thought
to how they would be here,
but they just care
that they would be here.
So I think in the future
that's probably
what we're going to see
with a lot of the species
that are going extinct today.
People are just going to all of
a sudden care
that the an imals aren't there.
I don't know if the public
would let that really happen.
I think there are too many people like myself
that care that these animals are there,
visible, able to be seen,
not necessarily in a freezer.
And I think, again,
your point's well taken.
It's why we need to conserve
habitat as well.
But I think it all needs to go on.
You know, here's a thought
to consider too,
and we don't know.
What's our next step here
by the end of this year?
We're going to start building
a space station.
And someday,
maybe well past my lifetime,
we may biodome another planet
here or there.
What better way to move ge netic material,
animals, maybe even people, plants,
to another planet?
But in a frozen zoo kind of situation,
I think there's going to be lots of reuse
of this frozen material
far into the future.
And all I'm simply saying
is that we need to
have it there as a safety net.
I think there would happen
during my lifetime.
That might not be what people
want to hear out there.
But I'm really optimistic.
I have been in this field for long enough that I know
that things happen overnight sometimes.
That accomplishments,
unbelievable discoveries
are made every day.
And I have no reason to think
that this technology will eventually not be as
successful.
I think that's
a possibility in the future,
of course, the major effort right
now in domestic animals,
as you know, is to target certain
genes in these animals,
not for the purpose that you're describing.
So we can target certain genes
right now in animals,
if that is what
science dictates for.
However,
genes that are controlling
their cuteness or cutleness,
if you want to,
I don't think are defined.
We really don't know enough
about the genes that determine behavior.
At this moment,
we have a lot of genes determined.
That causes a disease
and certain predispositions
and certain susceptibilities.
Behavior might be a little bit a conundrum.
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And the Finnish motorcyclist,
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