If it was possible we should do it. Even if the resulting animals were dangerous, there are already plenty of dangerous animals in the world today that would eat or kill you without any issue, yet no one would have a problem resurrecting them if they went extinct.
Dinos are animals humans never saw in their whole existence, the reason we didn't is because they went extinct before we had a chance to meet them but nature and evolution are not some kind of wise super intelligence whose objective is to "protects" us, it is just a natural phenomena and we never had any kind of problem defying the rules of nature before, so why this time?
Of course we cannot resurrect dinos, their DNA went lost millions of years ago and it is very unlikely we will ever be able to recover it somehow since DNA degrades in few thousand years... but if we could resurrect a few dinos to study, observe and learn from them, we should do it right away. It would be one of the greatest achievements of humanity and a chance to study a species so foreign to us as extraterrestrials would be.
The question is: should we? (Score:1)
The question is: why not?
If it was possible we should do it. Even if the resulting animals were dangerous, there are already plenty of dangerous animals in the world today that would eat or kill you without any issue, yet no one would have a problem resurrecting them if they went extinct.
Dinos are animals humans never saw in their whole existence, the reason we didn't is because they went extinct before we had a chance to meet them but nature and evolution are not some kind of wise super intelligence whose objective is to "protects" us, it is just a natural phenomena and we never had any kind of problem defying the rules of nature before, so why this time?
Of course we cannot resurrect dinos, their DNA went lost millions of years ago and it is very unlikely we will ever be able to recover it somehow since DNA degrades in few thousand years... but if we could resurrect a few dinos to study, observe and learn from them, we should do it right away. It would be one of the greatest achievements of humanity and a chance to study a species so foreign to us as extraterrestrials would be.
Or should we let a sci-fi movie stop us?