Bringing back the Woolly Mammoth to save the world | Ben Mezrich | TEDxBeaconStreet
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
- The woolly mammoth is coming back. How the most brilliant geneticist of our time is working to bring back the woolly mammoth, to repopulate the Siberian tundra and save the world.
Tags: science, extinction, climate change, genetics, crispr Author of twelve books, Ben Mezrich has created his own highly addictive genre of nonfiction, chronicling the amazing stories of young geniuses making tons of money on the edge of impossibility, ethics, and morality.
Mezrich is best known for Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions, which was his first book. It tells the story of a group of students from MIT using a sophisticated card counting system at casino to bet on blackjack games, winning millions of dollars. In 2008 the story was made into the movie “21”.
In 2010, Aaron Sorkin adapted Mezrich’s book, The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding Of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal, the movie The Social Network. The book, written in 2009, debuted at No. 4 on the New York Times Nonfiction Bestseller List, and No. 1 on the Boston Globe Nonfiction Bestseller List. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
i bet they just needed an excuse to make a woolly mammoth and i love that
I think so too. But I do not love it.
Lollypop Narcy no. The melting permafrost is a very real and very severe problem. In theory we can stop it without mammoths but mammoths would save time and effort and would also be a natural solution.
They never made it
They should give all TED speakers a stuffed animal to wave at the crowd. 🐒
If they did manage to clone a Woolly Mammoth, I wish they'd do the same with other creatures that we hunt to extinction as well, like the dodos, Tasmanian tigers, Mauritius Giant Tortoises, Elephant Bird, Barbary lion, etc
BigBadWolf great point
Rhinos 🦏
BigBadWolf giant turtles would be so cool lol.
Wearethepeople Wearelegion we used to have giant tortoises on many small islands, not only in Galapagos
But sadly, in the old times, they don't have refrigerators on their ship so, to have meat on the ship, they overhunt all the giant tortoises for food supply, until they're all extinct
If we can actually bring back mammoths, I wish to have those poor tortoises back on their island as well
Unlikely; the only thing that may allow us to recreate wooly mammoths is their frozen carcasses that we can use to bring them back. Most other cenozoic-extinct animals would probably not be found frozen.
I would love to see a Wooly Mammoth in my lifetime 😭
You only would because they are extinct, but if they weren't extinct, it'll be just as normal as seeing an elephant
Me Too
@@crash419animations5 . That's true.
@@crash419animations5 . That said they're very majestic beasts!
We are just finding a way.
He explained this extremely well
Wasn’t the whole five years thing already said over five years ago?
Alex Gerges true that
Yea I'm pretty sure on the late 2020's or 2030's
Truth be told I believe they have already done it. Scientist are just seeing how the general public will take this idea but in my humble opinion I believe they produced a mamoth already atleast 10 years ago. They are problaby monitoring its growth as we speak
SOLAR I could see that happening, I mean they do need to test it somehow, “they” always keep stuff a secret
SOLAR the sciencetist has to make sure it’s safe
I keep seeing comments saying it’s already been done
Jurassic Park: Glacier edition
Back in 1980, when I was 12 years old, I was reading an encyclopedia and came across a painting by Charles R. Knight. The painting featured woolly mammoths and woolly rhinos. I was amazed at the similarities between the woolly mammoths and today's elephants. Mammoths are much bigger, have longer tusks, and have woolly bodies. Ever since I read about mammoths for the first time, I have had a fascination with them. Several years later, I just happened to be online, and came across a website about the possibility of scientists bringing back the woolly mammoth. I don't know if this is even possible, but just thinking about it is exciting! While the 12 year old girl in me is excited about this and hopes it will happen, the 51 year old woman in me is curious and has questions. Would the woolly mammoth be able to survive in today's world? They would have to live in cold, icy parts of the world, such as the Arctic region. Would they be able to survive on the plants that grow in the world today? Were the plants that grew during the Ice Age the same as the ones that grow today, or were they different? It would be great if the woolly mammoth could be brought back, but these questions are definitely worth considering. Only time will tell if we can bring these magnificent creatures back into existence. How exciting would that be?
Ben subtly looking down at his notes probably taped to the stage is distracting me
This cannot create a true Woolly Mammoth, only an Asian elephant with mammoth like characteristics.
Do you have a degree in biology ?
Sharaarat ? Is that an argument? If so, it’s called an appeal to authority fallacy
Very inspirational topic of discussion!
Wow.. what an advertisement for book selling.. now is Jul 7th 2020 duuuudeeee :D
This videos from 3 years ago. You got 2 years left.
How'd you know that the elephant dressed as a mammoth is going to do all that stuff, on the ring? They may carry the gene of an elephant on their behavior and survival instinct with the cosmetic of a wooly mammoth.
Nice thought
If you have Lincoln Ax and you change the head. Then someone comes and changes the handle is it still Lincoln Ax? If they change the very DNA of a Elephant do be a Mammoth is it still a Elephant?
Well it was before we killed him anyways ....the fact is we killed a God's child and hence we suffer the gods slow wrath called global warming...it's better to make amends and give them their rightful land ❤️
2 years left
This is amazing. Please dont kill them.
As cool as it would be, we need a lot more than a wooly mammoth to help fight climate change. And we need to really focus on what we’re already losing and should be cloning animals that are about to be extinct.
Humans should be a lot less greedy,
Can't wait for mammoth steak
Gonna need a bigger oven for Rump Roast!!
I HOPE YOU ARE JOKING!!!
Not that I’m condoning it or I want to but will people legally be able to hunt mammoths when they come back (to enough numbers)
I am afraid they will. 🐘
I think people should watch this video definitely...as it gives a lot of knowledgeable and experience of The author Ben Mezrich...✌️✌️❤️❤️love it too much ✌️✌️
Awesome story
Yes!!!!
Yes.....yes.....yes.....yes.....Bring back the Harry Mammoths from extinction......do it.......do it.......
Me too I am so excited
But will the mammoths alter global warming as effectively as trees sequestrating CO2?
MAMMOTHS this is a Russian word .Pronounce it correctly Mamont(living in the earth )
People are in favour for 'mammoth' as they are herbivores, and also children are curious to see this animal because school children give more time in seeing the images of the 🦣 🦣 woolly mammoth than other animals.
They're making a movie about the woolly mammoth? Didn't they already do that with the Ice Age films?
Still waiting... Or did I missed something...
They confirmed last month i think it was, that within 6 years from now, they would clone the first one :)
This video was made on 2017 its 2019 so two more years have passed
And what is the status of the Woolly Mammoth project?
is thers goods news about SK resurecting cloning wolly mammoth?
I wish wooly mammoth tasted bad
When they do it ( don't even ) release them into the arctic or the tundra
2 years to go
Does this guy have his notes written on the ground?
19grand I suppose he is looking down on his audience.
Haha yeah he's
If you create a woolly mammoth, who will teach it to act like a woolly mammoth? Essentially, it will have all the instincts and social education of an Asian elephant. Creating it won’t be the hard part, it will be getting the animal to do what it’s ancient predecessors knew how to do from instinct. Obviously, the permafrost situation needs a solution quickly, but I’m not sure genetically engineered elephants are the answer.
I understand what your saying, but I have seen this being done befor with eagles. In some parts of the world eagles went extinct because of hunting and deforestation (and other reasons), and that led to a rise in wildlife that effected the enviroment very badly. So scinentists brought eagle eggs and tought the hatchlings how to fly, hunt, breed, feed their hatchlings and all the rest using puppets and other tecniques.
mammoth sized puppets are a little to hard to pull off but the point is there is all ways a way...
Cute, except the mammoths are a savanna type animal. Why put them in an environment that they were not adapted to. They are not a cold climate animal.
@@JoeDeglman yes they are,are you.mental they would edit the genes to make them act like mammoths
The story would have been better with normal trousers.
If they bring back the woolly mammoth I wanna ride it
You need to read Graham Handcocks book bud
The guy who thinks the Pyramids where made by telekinesis. Yeah pass on his lunacy
A comet wiped them out, honeybuns..
Chuck Person comets travel around the sun, not crashing into earth, honeybuns..
Chuck Person No, the DINOSAURS were killed by a space object.
Put them in alaska
I’m not entirely opposed to bringing back the woolly mammoth, but I think it would be more beneficial if they introduce Asian elephants to a colder environment, slowly allow them to adapt and then release them into the Pleistocene Park (they will have to be provided with food and shelter at first, but could eventually be left to their own devices). That way, the species’ range will be extended and a large enough herd will be established to actually prevent the permafrost from melting.
Asian elephants can survive in moderately cold regions, but the kind of adaptions your speaking about to get them to the point of surviving in the artic circle would take tens of thousand’s possiblly hundreds of thousands of years, it’s just not feasible
Finally we can get proper steaks again.
What have the Inuit peoples said about this?
They look forward to this new source of food and clothing just like their ancestors did.
cant you get dino DNA from bone?
Gallitorsgaming no, bc it needs a surrogate mother, and we don't have a dino mother. So no.(also have you SEEN the Jurassic wolrd!? WE will go extinct!!
ya i am well aware but i thought bone had DNA to so would they not be able to get Mammoth DNA from there bones?
Gallitorsgaming yeah, but they still need a mother
yes but my point is they need mammoth DNA they should be able to get that from there bones and they said they where planing on using the asien elephant as the mother
Gallitorsgaming sorry, i thought you meant the dino dna.
Reload mamath
I feel like this information is being rammed down my throat ‘believe it’ ‘believe it’ without the listener being given any time to reflect on what is being said and to even question the possible outcomes of this.....or he’s not a great presenter - I’m not sure.
It will kil the world...
Cute, except the mammoths are a savanna type animal. Why put them in an environment that they were not adapted to. They are not a cold climate animal. It was not humans that extinct the mammoth, there are millions of them that were extinct in a cataclysm. The mammoths were pushed by tidal forces 1000 miles to the north into the artic where they were flash frozen and preserved.
Joe Deglman looks like you need to rewatch Ice Age
How can a mamouth save the world?
They will prevent climate changes and spread greenhouse gases. So if we keep making global warming. The wooly mammoth will keep spread greenhouse gas and it's gonna be like there is no such thing as global warming
The reason is just a cover up... they knew they would have backlash for playing "god".
1st comment!
Joel Hayes actually 4th comment
Second answer!
Lol what a bunch of BS!
Bring back saber tooth tiger and dodo bird