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laughingsquid:

Legend of Penny

futurist-foresight:

Should we use bioengineering to bring back extinct species? Why not?

jtotheizzoe:

De-Extinction - Bringing Extinct Species Back to Life

Within the next several years, we will have the ability to bring extinct animals like the wooly mammoth or the passenger pigeon or the European auroch back to life. Unlike the silly fiction of Jurassic Park and its “dino DNA!!!” in a fossilized mosquito, we have uncovered nearly intact mammoth remains in Siberian permafrost. We have their genome … we can rebuild them.

But should we? Is this a world that a mammoth, or countless other extinct species targeted for de-extinction, belongs in? Who decides what belongs where, or rather when? Should we direct these efforts toward saving today’s endangered species instead?

There’s a lot of questions to answer. Luckily National Geographic has put together an entire issue and online collection on the subject, digging into the technology, the pros and the cons, and the very human motivations behind even asking these questions. It’s highly recommended reading.

What do you think?

I don’t think we should revive prehistoric species. Where are they going to live? Maybe if they manage to make one mammoth, it can live in a specially designed zoo habitat, and it would prove the point that this amazing feat is possible. But then, save it for symbolic, majestic, useful, etc animals that went extinct very recently or that go out in the future.

laughingsquid:

Dinotopia, Illustrated Fantasy Series About a World Shared by Dinosaurs and Humans

Report describes the future of buildings in 2050
Will Fox, futuretimeline.net

Report describes the future of build­ings in 2050

Design and engi­neer­ing firm Arup has launched ‘It’s Alive’ – a report that describes how build­ings in our cities could look and func­tion in 2050.

Th …

This is really weird when you look at the old “homes of tomorrow”

those thought that we would be a highly technologically advanced society full of retro futuristic stuff, but now that we dont have it, we focus our futuresight on smart sufaces and recycling. cosmic.

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hookshotdesigns:

How do you think with portals?

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alexlikesdesign:

I set out to make a (pseudo) 3D pixel gif, so I made these two Portal Device gifs. One that’ll spin infinitely, and another that has the context of a GLaDOS-aided quality check.

Thanks to everyone who voted on twitter. Maybe one day I’ll make the Gravity Gun for everyone else.

Created by Alex Griendling.

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