Interestingly, Excite posted the following poll today:
Do you oppose the idea of scientists cloning a recently discovered woolly mammoth by implanting DNA into a surrogate elephant mother? (Selectable responses consisted of yes, no, don't know.)

Any comments?

-- mil (millenium@yahoo.com), October 22, 1999

Answers

OT, by the way.

-- mil (millenium@yahoo.com), October 22, 1999.

I seriously doubt that implanting woolly mammoth DNA directly into a live female elephant will produce any results per se; if you are wondering, however, about if they monk with the DNA attributes of a living sperm specimen from a live male elephant and somehow manage to splice in the DNA characteristics of the extinct species, that is another gambit altogether. Sidney the elephant might be interested in the potential offspring.
This is about on topic as gold, DJIA, and the plethora of other interested but unconnected topics which manage to get posted daily.......but I LIKE it!!!

-- Jay Urban (JAYHO99@AOL.COM), October 22, 1999.

I saw a pic of the ice encased wooly. I thought those things were supposed to be huge, this one was barely taller than the guy standing next to it. I wonder if it was a young'un. The tusks on the other hand....BIG.

-- CygnusXI (noburnt@toast.net), October 22, 1999.

The mammoth they found was a male. They're hoping to use his sperm to impregnate a female elephant. It's unlikely they'll succeed, but we all know that stranger things have happened.

And no I don't have a problem with that. Won't happen anyway. 70 days till we're all back in the dark ages, people & critters alike.

-- do drunk elephants (see@pink.people), October 22, 1999.

And you believe that TPTB would take your food stash. I've had that thing buried for more than 150 million years now.........

-- Damn they got (MyStashBurried@Syberia.com), October 22, 1999.

Wonder what Mammoth Burgers taste like?

-- Billy Boy (Rakkasan@Yahoo.com), October 22, 1999.

Yum! I can't wait until McDonald's comes out with that!

-- Max Dixon (Cherokee@qtmail.com), October 22, 1999.

Hmm..."The McMammoth Burger...Only the Finest Cloned Mammoth Meat is used in our succulent burgers... Eat as our Ancestors did...the McMammoth Burger!" (Any bets that they already thought of it AND copyrighted it?)

-- Billy Boy (Rakkasan@Yahoo.com), October 22, 1999.

Just another excuse to lower the price of beef?Farmer Betty Alice

-- Betty Alice (Barn266@aol.com), October 22, 1999.

I have no problem if they try to cross breed a mammoth with an elephant, but the problem with cloning is the cells of the baby mammoth will be the same age as the animal he was cloned from, age 50 or something.

-- chicken farmer (chicken-farmer@ y2k.farm), October 22, 1999.