• Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Yeah, I’ve always wanted us to have a genetic Doomsday Vault, with the sequenced genome of every species. We can clone them from that.

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      1 month ago

      We are wildly far away from having the technology to do that. A single genome wouldn’t provide the genetic diversity for a sustainable population. We would need hundreds or thousands of genomes for each species to ensure that non-related individuals could mate.

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        1 month ago

        We absolutely have the technology, we just don’t have the money to gather the data. Or we haven’t chosen to allocate it.