The good column – screeching! Cuddly wolves with button eyes!

The shadow wolf (Aenocyon Dirus), which was extinct about 10,000 years ago, also known as “terrible wolf” (“Dire Wolf”), we learn when we look into our scientific house library, had dense white fur. It was also significantly larger than the gray wolf living today, had a more massive skull and a smaller brain.

In the past week, this news, which was read in all newspapers, went around the world: an American biotechnology group has genetic material that comes from the extinct animal, extracted from fossils-a 13,000 year old tooth and a 72,000-year-old ear bone-and thus manipulated the genes of gray wolves living today. After that, the researchers made embryos from the genetically modified gray wolf cells and implanted them into domestic dogs who had to serve as surrogate mothers. Hot shit!

A rather exhausting and challenging Doctor-Frankenstein-Bravour piece was put into work.

A rather exhausting and challenging Doctor-Frankenstein-Bravour piece was put into work.

The names of the three questionable living things produced using surrogate dogs (that is, the genetically generated “wolves”), which have a white fur, are: “Romulus”, “Remus” and “Khaleesi”. When choosing the name, the group’s PR experts made great effort: mythology! Rome, the eternal city! Fairy tale world! Antiquity and medieval romance! A bit of Disneyland and bends to the “Game of Thrones” fantasy panties! Sure: the artificially produced four -legged critters could also have been baptized “Hitler”, “Höcke” and “Khomeini”, but this might not have been in the sense of the group board.

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The elaborately generated animal monsters are of course proudly shown by the said biotechnology group that we can assume that he does not act out of pure selflessness and excessive love of people and animal and animal and animal, as if they were the freshly hatched laps of Selena Gomez. And of course the whole thing is a feast for the media, which have hardly obtained and critical reporting completely replaced by applause and hysteria: a miracle of modern science! The endless possibilities of genetic engineering! Flower -white cuddly wolves with button eyes! These sweet little rackers! Cirery!

But in fact these are not good news. Apparently nobody has asked the question of where this can lead. Imagine which dangers recover such biotechnological experiments carried out by dubious private companies. “A private group that, for reasons that should remain in hidden, creates new creatures in opaque laboratories from unknown materials with the latest technology” – what usually comes to mind on this topic? Correct.

Romulus and Remus were also children of the war god Mars (clearing). It is therefore quite possible that one thing that once started with cuddly wolves ends with slimy, eyeless highly aggressive parasitic forms of life that can only be removed by Sigourney Weaver with a flame thrower.

For example, does anyone want that a not necessarily trusting group acquire the genetic material of extinct shadows such as Friedrich Merz and Markus Söder in 10,000 years, which scientists found out of the holocene during excavations under a petrified beer tent, and thus manipulated the genes of other people? Why would a company value in 10,000 years of emphasizing that a type of politician, whose characteristic was massive skulls and small brains, would use the latest technologies to return back to life? Why would someone want to create a kind of Jurassic Park of capitalism? And how in 10,000 years did it succeed in the ranks to move people to serve progress with their bodies, that is: to have Söder-/Merz-DNA sequences inserted into your own genome or to hold the embryo of a Söder/Merz clone? You can already notice: Modern biotechnology not only produces snow -white cute fur animals, but also with the appropriate need, the powers of darkness back to light. Although I don’t want to be ultra -strict. Dense white fur or not: a sweet, small Linnemann clone with button eyes, when he has learned parry, I would like to lead on a leash in 10,000 years.

But still: I am not sure whether genetic engineering experiments should not be completely prevented in a better future. In any case, it is certain: Winter is coming!