Scientists Just Opened Pandora's Box

[00:00:00]I saw this and the first thing I thought was, "Oh [ __ ] we're all going to die just like Jurassic Park." I knew this is possible.

[00:00:08]I just didn't know how possible or when it would be. I really thought this is going to happen 20 years down the line.

[00:00:14]What they did was they made an artificial egg. So, like there was no egg, right? There was no bird that laid the egg. So, this this automatically answers the question, "What came first, the chicken or the egg?" In this case, it was actually the egg that came first.

[00:00:27]Now, you can argue they took the DNA from a chicken first, I guess, right?

[00:00:31]But, like this specific bird just came from an egg without a chicken. And it hatched. And they have like 10 of them running around. I wanted to go over the story. Did they bring back a the dodo?

[00:00:39]They brought back an extinct creature.

[00:00:42]Uh I'll talk about it a bit. I don't I didn't read too much about it. I wanted to go over this on stream with you guys.

[00:00:45]What did they bring back pterodactyls and they're just like dragons that kill everybody? Then uh then you got to learn how to train them.

[00:00:52]You got to learn how to train a dragon and uh maybe uh you know, name it Toothless and maybe fly it around, obviously. What species?

[00:01:00]We're going to go over that, don't worry. They're going to do the same thing with dinosaurs. Washington, May 22nd, more than two dozen healthy baby chickens have hatched from an artificial egg platform as developed in its plan to bring back the South Island giant moa.

[00:01:13]That's what it is. I'm going to copy and paste this and we're going to see what this is.

[00:01:21]No [ __ ] way.

[00:01:34]You guys wanted a dodo?

[00:01:37]We got a [ __ ] dinosaur. Wait, I wonder what they taste like. That's a big bird, Cal.

[00:01:42]It is. Oh my god.

[00:01:45]Big boy chicken? Gross.

[00:01:48]What do you mean?

[00:01:51]This looks amazing. Dude, this could feed them more than a week. Look at this.

[00:01:55]Like, you know how like a cow like look.

[00:01:57]This is a person, right? A whole cow can feed someone for like a month. This can feed someone for like 2 months. This is crazy. Think about it. Like, a little bit of cow, just like diced up beef chunks. That's like a tiny part of the cow. That could last like 2 or 3 days.

[00:02:11]Yeah, a cow can last a month. Damn, they're bringing this the zap teeth.

[00:02:17]Does it Does it have teeth?

[00:02:20]No, it doesn't have teeth. So, that's kind of good. It could still kill you.

[00:02:23]All right, that's cool. Let's Let's read the rest. It's a large flightless bird from New Zealand that went extinct centuries ago. The announcement was made this week by Colossal Biosciences, a company dedicated to de-extinction, resurrecting vanished species. The moa is one of the two birds, the dodo being the other.

[00:02:43]Yes, we're bringing back the dodo. Among the six species in its portfolio to revive, guided by ancient DNA, the company said last year that it had genetically engineered the dire wolf, an extinct Ice Age predator. That is crazy.

[00:02:58]Bring back only herbivore dinosaurs and we're good.

[00:03:01]No, they have to bring that the We need the T-Rex, dude.

[00:03:05]Like, if we're going to bring back a T-Rex, right?

[00:03:07]We need to have it on its own island. We should put it on Epstein's Island. We should turn Epstein's Island into like an actual Jurassic Park.

[00:03:15]You know, turn flip turn over a new leaf. Make something good good out of something bad. Yeah. I think that'll be nice. Using our system, we hatched 26 chicks and we're now actively monitoring these birds as they grow up. Colossal CEO and co-founder Ben Lamm told Reuters, "The chicks hatched at Colossal's Dallas headquarters." So, this is in Texas. Nice. This is right next to where I am. Kind of. It's like a How far is Dallas from me? Like, an hour? I'm near Houston.

[00:03:41]So, it's probably like 3 hours, right?

[00:03:42]The artificial egg platform involves a bioengineered silicone-based membrane placed inside a rigid outer structure.

[00:03:48]The membrane was made of mimic was made to mimic an egg shell's gas exchange function permitting the embryonic birds to breathe oxygen by regulating the movement of gases and moisture. This technology is designed to closely replicate the conditions of a natural egg to produce healthy animals with normal development, fertility, and longevity. You know what's crazy about this? I have something to say about this. This is especially important of species like the moa whose eggs were far larger than those of any living bird making traditional surrogate approaches impractical. I'm pretty sure the dire direwolf was brought back a couple years ago. Yeah, I heard about that. So, what's crazy is if you think about it this way, a lot of people are like, "Oh, cloning humans are it's not real." Now, when you clone a human, do you really think they're going to [ __ ] make it look like the exact celebrity? Like people that think that are stupid. You want to entertain that, go for it. I don't care. I mean, it is what it is, right? People are going to believe dumb things. People think the earth is flat.

[00:04:44]What I do think is you are now able to clone a human and use its organs to donate to people that need it. I don't know what the laws around that is, if they count as a human when you kill them, or maybe just make it to where the organs only appear and not an actual human. I don't know. They wouldn't even technically be born from anything. And we're not talking about a baby that was made by two humans, right? This would be a weird loophole. We're talking about a fake It's bioengineered, right? It's a bioengineered thing. It's not You can't even say it's born. Like for something to be born in a country, it would make them the citizen.

[00:05:21]But because it was bioengineered, it's a creation.

[00:05:25]It's a scientific creation. Cuz then, if you do that, then then we kind of dance along the lines of are robots like can robots be citizens? I know Sophia became one.

[00:05:36]But like, would we have to do that with robots, too? Cuz then that falls into the same line. I mean, it would be smart it'd be less like scary and less wrong to use those organs to save an actual human life that is going through a uh you know, some kind of like surgery. Is it made with sperm and egg though? It would have to be, of course. Yeah, if if to possibly do this, it would have to actually be made with something that was once human. But the thing is like you just you can argue that sperm is technically a living thing. But like to be born it has to come from like an actual woman, right? Like the word born, to give birth. This would still be a creation.

[00:06:12]Regardless of use is like alive, you know, sperm and egg or not. It would be weird. It would be a weird loophole. And if like they only do it to where the body is the only thing that forms and maybe not a head, not a living like breathing person, and then you use the organs and you farm that. I think that's the only like realistic thing you could do. Right, make it enough to where you can like make a liver, make enough to where you can make a lung or kidney.

[00:06:33]Kidney's very important these days, they're expensive. It's hard to find people who want to donate their kidney.

[00:06:38]You see a lot of people on the on a waiting list for donations for kidney failure and stuff. It's horrible. And it's so common cuz people like me don't drink water.

[00:06:46]Cloning organs would be morally okay, I think. I think cloning organs will be morally okay due to the fact that it's saving an actual life and a person who has a purpose in this world just existing. It's one of us. It's one of ours. It's a human. So I think that'll be okay. I think cloning humans would be [ __ ] weird, but maybe you have to clone a human in order to get the organs. See, that's where the line is.

[00:07:07]Who knows? Anyways, let's keep reading this. Got a little sidetracked on this one. But I think that was a good conversation talking point. Are there animals that they can use to give to the humans like their organs? Closest to us is an actual It's rabbits and it's pigs and mice. Rabbits, pigs, and mice share real similar DNA to us. But like you can't use their [ __ ] organs. That'd be crazy. We would have done it a long time ago. Uh through cloning embryos in the dire of wolf uh project were created from edited gray wolf cells and these were implemented in surrogate domesticated dog mothers. Oh, so they're put into actual mothers. That's different. That's different than the egg thing. The egg thing was like no birth.

[00:07:44]The moa, which stood about 12 ft tall, went extinct to roughly 500 years ago largely due to hunting by people. That sucks. The emu, a large flightless bird from Australia that can reach about 6 ft, 1.8 m, tall is its closest living relative. That is very tall. 12 ft is crazy. Dude, that's going to be cool to look at though. I would go to a zoo for once to see that.

[00:08:07]I hate zoos. It's stinky and it's full of annoying people and loud kids. But that I would go for that 100%. That'll be the biggest attraction, literally. In order to hatch a South Island giant moa, Colossal needs to find a needs a way to gestate the embryo.

[00:08:22]There's no living surrogate large enough to lay a South Island moa egg as they're around eight times larger than an emu egg. Lamb said, Lamb described how the artificial egg process works. So, what they have to do now is obviously find a way to artificially create a a thing that can hold the egg, like a a bird that big. It would have to be like giant bird's stomach.

[00:08:48]Like if you think about it, they would have to somehow replicate that. Like an emu, but like 10 times larger. And I'm sure they can do it. They already they got this far, guys. Like this would be crazy. As embryo develops, the system provides continuous environmental control and supplementation where needed. For example, calcium support during skeletal growth, which would normally come from the natural egg. Oh, natural shell, sorry. Because of the embryo develops visibly on top of the yolk, researchers can monitor development in real time throughout uh embryogenesis.

[00:09:19]Lamb said, the process in which a fertilized egg develops into an embryo.

[00:09:23]Uh for the 26 chicks, the total development time from embryo transfer to hatching was approximately 21 days, consistent with normal development for the species, Lamb said. The artificial egg, performed Lamb said, could be useful in a conservation of endangered bird species. It also is an important step towards bringing back the moa." At Colossal, the project is currently in the genome sequencing phase.

[00:09:49]Phase. So, it's There's They're still learning. They're still, like, obviously trying to get to where they want to be.

[00:09:54]Uh this is a big step already, though.

[00:09:56]Like, just hatching a fake creature into something real and living is already a big step. Bring back the T-Rex. I want to see a monster.

[00:10:05]That's cool. That looks so futuristic.

[00:10:07]What the [ __ ] You guys saw that [ __ ] Woah. Looks like something out of a video game. That's a spawn point, literally, for the bird. That's like That's like a spawn thing. The bird is getting spawned in real life. Imagine like being a bird and you're You're telling your friends, "I came from that." You came from a metal egg. Looks like AI, but I doubt it. No, it's not.

[00:10:27]It's not AI. This is a real thing. It's a real place. I I looked it up already before I went on here.

[00:10:32]They They actually are a a company that've been doing this for years. And what I feel about it is like it's so nice that um that it came to this. You know, cuz usually projects like this, it becomes such a waste of money, cuz people will doubt you, and nobody wants to fund you anymore, and sometimes they fund you, but then you take too long to actually get any like sort of um progress.

[00:10:55]I'm so glad they did this, cuz now people are going to want to fund them more, cuz people are going to want to see the giant birds. They're going to want to see T-Rex. So, yeah, this is cool. I think this is great. This is also nice for people that are afraid that, you know, some animals go extinct, like the panda and stuff, and turtles.

[00:11:11]So, uh that's a big deal.

[00:11:13]Anyways, just wanted to go over this with you guys. I thought it was really interesting. I saw this.

[00:11:18]Um my next video after you watch this, it's quite a quite similar, but quite funny. It's about a a mammoth that was placed in a museum, the bones, but it wasn't actually a mammoth. So, they they they [ __ ] people over by accidents. As always, say, take care, stay safe, and don't die. Oksana, cue the music.

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