Unfortunately, it seems like the former may be enabling the latter, so we may end up with a “porque no los dos” situation.
I encounter this exact thought in every comment thread that mentions 1984 without fail.
And usually 3 or so comments later I realise that they poster of this amazing idea hasnt read (or at least doesnt remember) 1984 anyway.
>Unfortunately, it seems like the former may be enabling the latter, so we may end up with a “porque no los dos” situation.
You mean some sort of situation where the masses (or "proles") are kept happy with puerile entertainment while those people with political impulses are kept under heavy surveillance? Kind of like the novel 1984?
The current vector of the world has all the potential to end up in a blend of both.
You're not making a return on that from selling velocirator skeletons. Nor is that sort of money in dodos and maos.
Human cloning on the other hand...
Long term, maybe chickens are just the test case and they will pump out human slaves. Replicants.
> Colossal has not released its hatch rate for the 26 chickens, which limits direct comparison to prior shell-free systems. The announcement was also made without an accompanying peer-reviewed paper or publicly released dataset, meaning independent scientists have not yet been able to evaluate the underlying methodology.
> This story is based on original reporting by Christina Larson for National Geographic. Read the full feature on National Geographic
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/artificia...
Yes. Even if they stuck it at the end, it shows good journalism to call this out.
requires real hen for fertilization and laying scientists inspect eggs newly laid by real hens within 24 to 48 hours. They select the most promising ones, crack them open, and delicately pour the contents—everything but the shell—into the artificial egg structure. But everything that happened before then, from fertilization to egg laying, required a real chicken.(26 different artificial eggs. The artificial egg is the main development. Basically they take a chicken embryo (by cracking open a fertilized egg) and allow it to develop inside the artificial egg, and from which it can eventually be "hatched". Other methods for growing chickens from embryos outside their eggs have not had very high success rates.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48257929
This was what I read: https://colossal.com/colossal-biosciences-artificial-egg-dod...
Colossal Biosciences
goal of resurrecting extinct bird species
C'mon.
They want to do a Jurassic Park.
It is, literally, a movie with something for everyone.
JAPANESE STUDENTS HATCH A HEN'S EGG WITHOUT A SHELL! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAJDTYUw0sk
A Novel Shell-less Culture System for Chick Embryos Using a Plastic Film as Culture Vessels https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jpsa/51/3/51_0130043/_a...
An extra-uterine system to physiologically support the extreme premature lamb https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15112
Assessment of extremely premature lambs supported by the Extrauterine Environment for Neonatal Development (EXTEND) https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11772227/
4H is gonna be wild in 5 years.
They took regular eggs, broke the shell/membrane and emptied the contents into a silicone based eggshell/membrane for incubation.
Still good science, but greatly tempered implications. Allegedly a group of Japanese school students did this previously using cellophane wrap.
The company was founded by George Church, and is able to embark upon these projects thanks to deep-pocketed investors and skirting/bypassing traditional approaches aligned with federal programs and the Endangered Species Act. The following MIT Technology Review article covers the wolf project in detail:
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/20/1135222/red-wolv... (paywall)