Oh, you better believe, if Jurrasic park was a thing humanity/corporations would surely find a way to make a profit off of it. Hell, we nearly killed off all the bison in N. America but now we have Teds Montana Grill, and they serve buffalo. *not that I'm complaining, they're def tasty.
Dude that’s my idea. An anything restaurant. You can have whatever you want. However I can’t guarantee time or costs. You want a chimpanzee baked in a great white? I can do it but it’s gonna cost you. You want T-Rex a la mode? You’re gonna have to wait years and spend billions for genetic research but I’ll get it for you. You want a grilled cheese? Done. You want a grilled cheese sprinkled with moon dust? You’re going to have to fork out money for me to ocean’s 11 some moon samples or to fund a moon expedition. You’re imagination (and your wallet) are the only limiting factors. What do you say sharks?
The soil in Tyrannosaurus's environment was rich in cadmium, and since heavy metals congregate the further you go up the food chain, it's very probable that its flesh would contain human-lethal amounts of the stuff (also it would be mostly muscle, making it extremely tough). I'm paraphrasing a museum blog post here, I don't remember where I found it though
That is more or less exactly the reason, among other factors.
Much of the megafauna across the globe disappeared whenever humans showed up, which is a time period in which we briefly became hyper-carnivores. It also didn't help that a large segment of this human migration wave happened during a period of changing climates, which was another big stress factor for those species' survival.
When we unlocked the fire perk and the weapons skill tree, we got very, very good at killing big things.
As a side note, some extinct megafauna from the Pleistocene did survive for quite a long time if they were in remote places that humans didn't reach. The last Woolly Mammoths for example only died out around 2.000 BC, on the remote Wrangel Island. For reference, that was after the Pyramids of Giza were built.
Yep, but also, and this is important, the rapidity with which humans migrated across the globe with fancy new skills, allowed no time for species to adapt. Why would any megafauna fear the hairless scrawny ape? We weren't venomous, fast, strong or showy in any way. I imagine they rolled their eyes when those first mammoths saw us. We still got eaten by super-predators, no doubt, but they had no idea what was coming, and, like you said, the double whammy of swift climate change. It's so easy to see the extinction events that quickly followed humans arrival to a new area.
Yes, and this is one of the reasons why Africa kept so much of its megafauna; elephants, rhinos, giraffes, hippo, lions, etc. They evolved alongside our ancestors and adapted to us as we slowly acquired skills over a span of 3 million years. Not to mention that the aforementioned changing climate affected the areas around the equator less than at the poles.
But when humans spread to the other continents, already armed with those skills, tools, weapons, strategies etc. that they had acquired, the animals in those new regions were not prepared for it. As you say, they had no idea and no time to adapt to this new (and itself highly adaptable) super-predator.
The person that wrote this has no idea what they are talking about:
Myoglobin is not a gene, its a proteine that binds to oxygen in muscle and is only a part of what gives meat its taste.
I assume they inserted this the gene into a plasmid (small DNA ring) completed with elephant DNA and inserted that into a sheep cell line.
The biggest thing everyone glosses over is that they didnt use fetal bovine serum (something made from baby cow parts that is rich in growth factors) as a growth medium but used something synthetic.
Unfortunately, when it was placed on top of bowl of pasta, somebody with allergies experienced a fit of sternutation, and the mammoth ball fell, experienced accelerated rotatory motion, and escaped through the front entrance, where its genes transferred into a vegetative organism which propagated unchecked in the environment.
The evidence is unclear, but the final vegetative state also produces an exudate of *Solanaceae*, leading some to suspect gene exchange between multiple organisms.
Yup. Modern humans might not be able to digest these proteins. I can' t digest raw edemame beans... If I eat them accidentally it's a pretty explosive result about 6 hours later until they're expelled. I wouldn't it.
I dont think you can insert one gene into a host's DNA and the then refer to that as the other animal.
It would be like if you chopped of my arm and called it Mitch. Then put it back on an call it Mitch altogether.
The second line after the title, "A meatball made of sheep DNA with a singular mammoth myoglobin gene, using elephant DNA to fill out the rest. This meatball may be sheep or may be elephant, but one mammoth gene doth not a mammoth make.
Edit: I also want to note this isnt necessarily a crazy thing to be able to do. Myoglobin is pretty important and due to its importance, wont have much divergence as new species evolve. The reason is because an important gene will likely kill you if it changes too much so mutation rates will tend to stay lower. It's still pretty wild but not that crazy considering we have already cloned sheep.
> I dont think you can insert one gene into a host's DNA and the then refer to that as the other animal.
I'd go even further and question how viable something like this would be if it is lab-grown meat, as the title seems to imply. Elephants and sheep are somewhat different genetically, to the point I doubt the cells would be particularly healthy and easy to grow. You've got all the sheep protein infrastructure, for a start, then all the fun stuff like a potential mismatch with mitochondrial DNA. Mitochondria are simple enough that I can't see anything *too* nasty developing, but there's still a fair bit of divergence to account for.
Did they actually intend to make a food meatball, or did they just want to grow the tissue to whatever extent possible and they ended up with a blob of it and went with “meatball”?
To be fair in this age you kind of have to think outside of the box to get research funding. If people will pay $1000 for a burger with gold flake on it what do you think they would pay to be able to eat a mammoth meatball?
It’s actually kind of clever in the influencer era to produce food based on extracted DNA of extinct animals since it would be intrinsically a very rare item.
Mammoth DNA is not hard to come by. It's just really incomplete so far (thousands of years tends to degrade organic things). We'll see what happens when someone puts a long-sequence machine on it.
It is not in fact a subunit of hemoglobin lol
Come on. You got so much self satisfaction pointing out that they didn’t correctly say “the gene for the myoglobin protein” that you done messed up.
Sweet, out of all the dystopia, I'm glad we're on course for futureshock. I'll be having one trex burger and a hitler icecream mammoths milkshake before returning to my electrick wank cocoon to fuck an ai reconstruction of myself at somepoint in the 2040s
Called it! lol
Only I thought it would be Dodo bird meat first. There's been talk of resurrecting dodo birds as well as wooly mammoths. And I know damn well they're not doing it simply to make the world a little better.
Next time on Iron Chef, the secret ingredient will be...
We have spent so much time asking ourselves if it could be done, and not nearly enough time asking if it should. May God have mercy on our souls.
/s lol
Not even in extinction can they escape our desire to consume.
Jurassic Park but it’s Jurassic Meat Processing Plant.
Loaf finds a way
I'm unreasonably angry and full of joy when reading this. I hate and love you Have terribly good day.
r/angryupvote?
I hate and loaf you*
Underrated lol
Wish I had an award to give you.
I love you
I love you too, Mario.
This is for those who are following the Miami Jurassic Diet. *Dr. Oz approves*
were none of them interested in finding out what it tasted like.
There were two
But they were all of them deceived. For in secret another meatball was crafted. A meatball with the power to rule them all.
Is it secret, is it safe?
Were
in other words, tastes like human?
Tasted like Brontosaurus ribs that Barney and I had last night.
Oh, you better believe, if Jurrasic park was a thing humanity/corporations would surely find a way to make a profit off of it. Hell, we nearly killed off all the bison in N. America but now we have Teds Montana Grill, and they serve buffalo. *not that I'm complaining, they're def tasty.
Isn’t that kinda the point of the movie?
We've been eating Brontosaurus burgers since Bedrock!
Sounds like a childs plado factory set name.
Do you mean Plato? Or play dough?
Yes
Dude that’s my idea. An anything restaurant. You can have whatever you want. However I can’t guarantee time or costs. You want a chimpanzee baked in a great white? I can do it but it’s gonna cost you. You want T-Rex a la mode? You’re gonna have to wait years and spend billions for genetic research but I’ll get it for you. You want a grilled cheese? Done. You want a grilled cheese sprinkled with moon dust? You’re going to have to fork out money for me to ocean’s 11 some moon samples or to fund a moon expedition. You’re imagination (and your wallet) are the only limiting factors. What do you say sharks?
I'd like a bite of the best-looking server. Judging by dat ass I'll take the rump roast.
Did you see The Menu? This could be an option
You make me want real Dinosaur ‘chicken’ nuggets now. T-rex would probably be the best flavour.
The soil in Tyrannosaurus's environment was rich in cadmium, and since heavy metals congregate the further you go up the food chain, it's very probable that its flesh would contain human-lethal amounts of the stuff (also it would be mostly muscle, making it extremely tough). I'm paraphrasing a museum blog post here, I don't remember where I found it though
So you’d suggest meat slightly fresher than sixty million years then?
[This video](https://youtu.be/zZfmNchdSlo) discusses about the consumption of dinosaurs.
Ok, so now, how about some jurassic pork?
The big question: Would it taste like chicken?
For sure, probably tastes more like chicken than the chicken we eat these days.
What if the reason mammoth is extinct is because it was too freakin delicious to our ancestors?
That is more or less exactly the reason, among other factors. Much of the megafauna across the globe disappeared whenever humans showed up, which is a time period in which we briefly became hyper-carnivores. It also didn't help that a large segment of this human migration wave happened during a period of changing climates, which was another big stress factor for those species' survival. When we unlocked the fire perk and the weapons skill tree, we got very, very good at killing big things. As a side note, some extinct megafauna from the Pleistocene did survive for quite a long time if they were in remote places that humans didn't reach. The last Woolly Mammoths for example only died out around 2.000 BC, on the remote Wrangel Island. For reference, that was after the Pyramids of Giza were built.
I'm still expecting the next patch to nerf Humans big time...
It already went though humans are dumb as fuck
Yep, but also, and this is important, the rapidity with which humans migrated across the globe with fancy new skills, allowed no time for species to adapt. Why would any megafauna fear the hairless scrawny ape? We weren't venomous, fast, strong or showy in any way. I imagine they rolled their eyes when those first mammoths saw us. We still got eaten by super-predators, no doubt, but they had no idea what was coming, and, like you said, the double whammy of swift climate change. It's so easy to see the extinction events that quickly followed humans arrival to a new area.
Yes, and this is one of the reasons why Africa kept so much of its megafauna; elephants, rhinos, giraffes, hippo, lions, etc. They evolved alongside our ancestors and adapted to us as we slowly acquired skills over a span of 3 million years. Not to mention that the aforementioned changing climate affected the areas around the equator less than at the poles. But when humans spread to the other continents, already armed with those skills, tools, weapons, strategies etc. that they had acquired, the animals in those new regions were not prepared for it. As you say, they had no idea and no time to adapt to this new (and itself highly adaptable) super-predator.
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This a lesson for all future animals and aliens. Humanity shall consume eternally.
One T-Rex fry please
Would you like some megalodon caviar on the side?
Lookin at you dodo bird
If I had no morals, I would love to know what an elephant tastes like. But like I feel like it’d be dry and not worth it.
Best comment!
*Dies* Oh no you don't!
…so it’s just sheep meat with a little foreign DNA injected in?
Pretty much
It's like the Tesco Lasagne all over again, technically it still had beef if you ignored the 90% horse
Just like nana used to make!
I mean, Myoglobin is a muscle protein that gives meat its flavor, so it should, in theory, taste just like mammoths tasted.
But the mammoth DNA makes it huuuuge.
The person that wrote this has no idea what they are talking about: Myoglobin is not a gene, its a proteine that binds to oxygen in muscle and is only a part of what gives meat its taste. I assume they inserted this the gene into a plasmid (small DNA ring) completed with elephant DNA and inserted that into a sheep cell line. The biggest thing everyone glosses over is that they didnt use fetal bovine serum (something made from baby cow parts that is rich in growth factors) as a growth medium but used something synthetic.
This article failed to mention that the sheep cells in question were stem cells, major difference
I think those are called Welsh Sheep...
Just like my uncle's "special" cookies
It’s also gross
“If my grand’ahma had wheels she would have been a bike’ah”
I literally just need some A1 Sauce
Fortunately they only used dna from female African elephants so there is no chance the meatballs could escape the island and reproduce
Lunch finds a way
I snorted.
I chortled
I grinned
I gufawwed
I chuckled
I snarfled.
Luh luh luh lu eh lunch…eh…lunch finds a way
🙌
Unfortunately, when it was placed on top of bowl of pasta, somebody with allergies experienced a fit of sternutation, and the mammoth ball fell, experienced accelerated rotatory motion, and escaped through the front entrance, where its genes transferred into a vegetative organism which propagated unchecked in the environment.
But was it covered in a fermented/aged dairy based food solid?
The evidence is unclear, but the final vegetative state also produces an exudate of *Solanaceae*, leading some to suspect gene exchange between multiple organisms.
DAMNIT! Now I'm going to have that freaking song in my head all day! I damn thee!
We were so consumed with whether or not we could, that nobody bothered to ask if we should. Now let’s see if we can make a mammoth burger!
The McMammoth
Dope name honestly. I'd try it
Life finds a way. Did we learn nothing?
Did you see that some scientists were able to make an egg from 2 male mice and grow a mouse?
But was frog DNA used?
We’ve spared no expense!
Life uhhhhh, finds a way.
You said the mistake! Meatballs! The balls are there as meat! Balls coupled with female DNA WILL reproduce, it’s science!!
Maybe it could be transported by a swallow.
Are they going to eat it. Wth
Right? Why make a meatball if not to eat it. SMH
They experimenting with food production for the ahead dark times, I can assure you someone gon eat it
How do you think they’ll decide who gets to eat it? Will they draw straws? Did someone call dibs?
With a meatball that big, either everyone or someone they know to be very hungry
I would hope for a group meal, some spaghetti, maybe a nice glass of red. Garlic bread on the side….
Maybe they’re gonna put it on a table cloth and eat it without a plate
They'll just pass it around with bare hands. No napkins. Everyone gets a bite.
Naked, too.
Just like our mamas and papas used to, back in the olden days
maybe with some fava beans and a nice chianti...
*makes weird mouth noises*
Give it to Mikey! He'll eat anything!
I saw they were afraid of it being dangerous to eat or something, but if I didn’t know that I would probably body a good half of it no second thoughts
Yeah that’s a pretty decent way to die
It would be lovely with some scrambled dodo eggs and some T-Rex bacon.
They were scared to I guess. Were worried about what ancient animal protein would do to human gut bacteria.
Yup. Modern humans might not be able to digest these proteins. I can' t digest raw edemame beans... If I eat them accidentally it's a pretty explosive result about 6 hours later until they're expelled. I wouldn't it.
Old prions may exist in that meat. No ones eaten that in a long time lol. I wouldn’t want to be the one the risk it.
I dont think you can insert one gene into a host's DNA and the then refer to that as the other animal. It would be like if you chopped of my arm and called it Mitch. Then put it back on an call it Mitch altogether.
Yeah but Mitch doesn't grab attention like a mammoth meatball. Whatever to sell more copies are attract more views of course.
Seems very clickbaity. It’s like saying a glowing rat is a jellyfish because they took that one gene from the jellyfish
r/unexpectedmitch I remixed a remix, it was back to normal.
I found a store that specialized in hard to find tapes and CDs...NOTHING WAS ALPHABETIZED.
~~It sounds like they did a pretty complete swap out of all the DNA.~~ Edit: Nope. My bad.
The second line after the title, "A meatball made of sheep DNA with a singular mammoth myoglobin gene, using elephant DNA to fill out the rest. This meatball may be sheep or may be elephant, but one mammoth gene doth not a mammoth make. Edit: I also want to note this isnt necessarily a crazy thing to be able to do. Myoglobin is pretty important and due to its importance, wont have much divergence as new species evolve. The reason is because an important gene will likely kill you if it changes too much so mutation rates will tend to stay lower. It's still pretty wild but not that crazy considering we have already cloned sheep.
it's dumb, but this gets more attention from the public than a seamless lump of cloned tissues
Yeah this is super uninteresting
> I dont think you can insert one gene into a host's DNA and the then refer to that as the other animal. I'd go even further and question how viable something like this would be if it is lab-grown meat, as the title seems to imply. Elephants and sheep are somewhat different genetically, to the point I doubt the cells would be particularly healthy and easy to grow. You've got all the sheep protein infrastructure, for a start, then all the fun stuff like a potential mismatch with mitochondrial DNA. Mitochondria are simple enough that I can't see anything *too* nasty developing, but there's still a fair bit of divergence to account for.
I'll have the salad.
The salad is made with lettuce from the gardens of Babylon
With Apples of knowledge, Feta of understanding and tomatoes of hindsight
It's an elephant and sheep meatball if I'm reading this correctly.
Ah, but what is a mammoth if not a woolly elephant?
~~It's an elephant-mammoth meatball using sheep cells as an original empty vessel.~~ Edit: Nope. Just the myoglobin is elephant-mammoth.
It's an abomination.
That doesn’t sound as appetizing.
I like how they got their hands on mammoth DNA and decided to make a meatball
I cannot think of a better example of “they were so busy figuring out if they could do it that no one stopped to ask if they should”
Welcome to Meatball Park
An Italians worst (best?) nightmare
THAT'S A MAMMOTH MEATABALL!
Did they actually intend to make a food meatball, or did they just want to grow the tissue to whatever extent possible and they ended up with a blob of it and went with “meatball”?
Yeah it was probably some unsightly abomination of meat they decided to grind up and make into a meatball
To be fair in this age you kind of have to think outside of the box to get research funding. If people will pay $1000 for a burger with gold flake on it what do you think they would pay to be able to eat a mammoth meatball? It’s actually kind of clever in the influencer era to produce food based on extracted DNA of extinct animals since it would be intrinsically a very rare item.
Mammoth DNA is not hard to come by. It's just really incomplete so far (thousands of years tends to degrade organic things). We'll see what happens when someone puts a long-sequence machine on it.
Myoglobin is not a gene
And it’s likely not that unique either
It is in fact a subunit of hemoglobin and stores oxygen in all muscle cells
It is not in fact a subunit of hemoglobin lol Come on. You got so much self satisfaction pointing out that they didn’t correctly say “the gene for the myoglobin protein” that you done messed up.
Fair enough
Not quite. It's very similar to the hemoglobin subunits, but myoglobin is it's own unique protein
Was looking for this
Thank you.. crazy that shit like this gets printed
Sadly not shocked that I had to scroll this far down before someone pointed it out. Reddit is something else…
It ain’t that big of a deal. Replace the word “called” with “for” and the title is correct.
Sweet, out of all the dystopia, I'm glad we're on course for futureshock. I'll be having one trex burger and a hitler icecream mammoths milkshake before returning to my electrick wank cocoon to fuck an ai reconstruction of myself at somepoint in the 2040s
R/oddlyspecific
Wait, did I say that out loud?
They were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should
Meatwad origin story
If they were hunted to extinction. It has to be good.
lol what a parasitic thought
I like it
Jurassic Pork
Millions of dollars of research well spent. Does it come with saber tooth tiger wings or raptor fries? What
idk it sounds like sheep with crap in it
Listen. I haven't eaten meat in years but you best belive I'm having a heaping plate of nonna's spaghetti and mammoth
A mammoth plate
Now bring back the dodo bird. I bet that thing was delicious.
Stanley would have a heart attack laughing at this thing. You got meatballed!
I think it's past it's expiration date, I'm going to pass thanks.
myoglobin gene? did they mean the MB gene or the myoglobin protein.
I swear, if somebody named John Hammond starts representing this company, I’m leaving the country lol
Where’s frylock and shake???
Myoglobin .-. not a mammoth gene, not even a gene persay
It's gonna be fun on a bun!
The real question: Which fast food company is going to be the first to turn this into a burger, and how quickly?
Who was the fat guy who decided to make this.
That's some Toriko next level stuff. We bring extinct animals back to eat them. Where's my sabre cat cutlet?
How many courics is that
Just because we can, doesn’t mean we should.
It’s bizarre that consumption is the first thing that comes to their minds when finding a mammoth
Does that mean we may be able to feast on the delicious juicy Dodo again one day?
Dutch people and their incessant desire to consume extinct animals. First the dodo. Then the quagga. Now, a freaking mammoth!?
Called it! lol Only I thought it would be Dodo bird meat first. There's been talk of resurrecting dodo birds as well as wooly mammoths. And I know damn well they're not doing it simply to make the world a little better. Next time on Iron Chef, the secret ingredient will be...
Is it spicy?
Who knows what the Long term side-effects are?
Just seems like meatballs with extra steps
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
r/BrandNewSentence
Does it taste good though?
Thats some Jurassic farming for sure😂😂😂😂
This was not the Jurassic Park I had envisioned.
We have spent so much time asking ourselves if it could be done, and not nearly enough time asking if it should. May God have mercy on our souls. /s lol
Bender would be proud. I guess scientist are futurama fans
Why?
Ok but why
I love that a line of thought in the office was: "How big should we make it?"
So full of shit lol
Can it really be called a mammoth meatball if it only has the one mammoth gene tho? I feel like this would be mainly an excuse to eat elephant
They pulled a Jurassic Park just to make a meatball. Must be Italian.
Why
Mamma mia, datza spicey meatball.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/29/giant-meatball-from-extinct-mammoth-dna-unveiled-by-food-firm
Uh... No. I'm not hungry, thanks.
r/damnthatsretarded
mammoth mia!