Bringing back the mammoth….

There was an idea, a plan to bring back the mammoth. But why? Why should we want to..? And it is impossible. The moment an organisme dies de dna decays. So we will never have the full dna string of a mammoth. If such an animal gets born using an elephant then it will be a hybrid, part mammoth, part elephant with no habitat to live in. Not very ethical if you ask me. And this project would take millions of dollars. We better use this money to help survive species that are on the brink of extinction. The past is the past, we cannot bring back species that are extinct.

Some time ago, in fact many years ago SETI ( Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence ) had a great idea. Seti searches with sensitive telescopes the universe for signals that could be coming from extraterrestrial intelligence. With this search al lot of data is gathered. I mean an lot of data. And that all has to be checked. Of course that can be checked by computers but still, that takes so much time. So the idea was to let it be checked by more computers, by many more computers. A simple and briljant idea. So they asked the public to help. With personal computers all over the world data could be checked. I loved the idea so I volunteerd and received the needed software and could download the data files. My personal computer checked the data at night when I was sleeping and I installed an alarm sound for when something interesting was found. After a few days or should I say nights I turned that off for obvious reasons. This way I and many others around the world participated in the SETI search. 
For more information about SETI; the research, the scientists and events check out the site at www.seti.org 

It is known that I am not very enthousiastic about Mars. I hear others discussing about colonizing the planet, want to live there. It is a dead toxic planet. I don’t share the hysteria of Elon Musk to occupy Mars. We don’t have the technololgy to go there. Because of the radiation people would be dead before arriving there. And even if you should arrive then on the surface of the planet the radiation is deadly too. You could only survive underground. Why go to a planet to live underground?

Planet Mars had a simular start as Earth but lost most of its atmosphere and lost its magnetic field. It is good to send our robot rovers to do the searching for us. To search for evidence that there once was life.

We are good at that, sending robot rovers on a mission. We should do that to other planets aswell. And we do that.