nomad;4630512; said:
obviously you have no clue what you are talking about.....the term "extinct in the wild " means anything to you ?
since you seem so confident, why don't you give it a try ? you can start by explaining to us how you tell sexes apart.
CrAzYNeSs;4630571; said:
Sorry. Just voicing my opinion.
benzjamin13;4636002; said:
Thanks benzjamin13 for editing my post, but in fact I did not want the former without the latter. Just look at condescending attitude in response to my opinion. No constructive community needs any type of bashing when mere opinions are voiced. He could have chosen to do it minus the attitude. Instead he took the low road.
Now that I have the allocated some time for leisure, let me break it down for nomad.
obviously you have no clue what you are talking about
Just continue reading.
the term "extinct in the wild " means anything to you ?
What about it? Species go extinct all the time. Sometimes they even reemerge after decades or centuries. Google is your friend; this happens in animals, fish, and everything else in between. Just cause we can't observe something does not mean it is not occurring -the galaxy is vast it is bound to be happening somewhere.
Can you tell me that we have someone watching every square inch of that river at any given moment? Exactly, no. It is rather the researchers and fishermen who are reporting these findings after going out and trying to fish for them. Any simple college statistics course can tell you that if these fish were already low to extremely low in population from overfishing, your probablity is netting one is also
extremely low.
Keeping that in mind. Now, taken in to account that fishes themselves has specific tastes and preferences. Especially since fishing relies on baits, your probability decreases even MORE. On top of which people can not be selective of the fish in which they are trying to hook. They either bite or not. Your probability of netting/catching one drops even more significantly.
Remember how the probability of catching one was already extremely low? Add the aforementioned and your probability drops almost down close to zero, but it doesn't mean they aren't in there.
Again, unless you are telling me that someone is watching every inch of that river and/or use a fine mesh net to run the entire length and depth of that river. Get off that high and mighty chair of yours and be more respectful of other peoples opinions by refraining to use sentences that start with: "obviously you have no clue what you are talking about"
Cause do you really have all the facts? Clearly not. Lets go further.
since you seem so confident, why don't you give it a try ?
I am confident, science has been making huge headways since we had the ability to sequence DNA. Even in its infancy, we have done some rather extraordinarily things with this new found knowledge. I am confident in two things - the ability of man to destroy but also to create. Give it more time and we will be able to do wonders with this information. Let us not forget cloning is always an option. Feasible, no. Pricey, obviously. Option, of course.
Side note: Our understanding of proteins are rather limited still. I encourage everyone to help by doing Folding@Home (FAH). It is a Stanford project that folds/unfolds these proteins to better understand the way they work. Their project has made a lot of remarkable discovers. The implication of these discovers include but are not limited to:
"Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes." Source:
http://folding.stanford.edu
I've been folding for a very long time now. When your computer is on idle, just run the program. Every little bit helps.
you can start by explaining to us how you tell sexes apart.
I don't need to. Since no one has witness or came forward to explain how these creatures mate.
/start sarcasm
I'm going to tell you how it really goes down, but make sure to take notes!
Code:
It has to be on a night that there is a full moon, but a unicorn has to be present too.
Of course you also need 300 female virgins to stand in the water and urinate downstream
because this really gets the ST/WB's hormones on the frits.
/end sarcasm
My original point and current point is this, since no one knows than it could be anything. It could be asexual reproduction or it could be as crazy as my story above. However, one thing is for sure. They do reproduce, because they would not be in your tanks today or years ago if they were incapable of doing so. Otherwise, natural selection would have been done with them millenniums ago. I'm confident if they can do it themselves, we can do it for them too. Whether it be artificial insemination or human created clones as a last resort for means of reproduction.