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RE: Bring Back Your Dead: De-Extinction
If the species was wiped out by an invasive species, a lethal disease, or some other ecosystem altering threat, if that threat remains present in their old ecosystem, reintroducing them will just lead to them getting wiped out again
I hadn't really considered that aspect before, which does raise a lot of interesting implementation questions. (I'm all for Holocene park.)
I am generally in favor of preserving DNA of endangered species - it's a lot easier to have it and not use it than the other way around. I can also see uses for it as an information source, even without genetic resurrection.
Both Seveneves and Titan A.E. incorporate this idea into their plotlines.
Big fan of both!
You're one of maybe 3 people (including myself) who I know enjoyed Titan A.E. :)
What was your opinion on the narrative format shift in seveneves?
Titan AE is amazing and anyone who dislikes it is objectively wrong.
Liked the shift (actually listened to it in audiobook format, and they even switched narrators for it), but I thought the latter section was too short in comparison to the first. Also, too much dry, Rendevous with Rama style technical manual descriptions of stuff. First part was definitely the stronger part of the book.
You are now officially on my 'buy them a beer' llst.
Cute on them for changing the narrator - the Rama comparison hadn't occurred to me, but it's spot-on. I enjoyed th first part more, as well. I think the main thing the second part does is to make the already-good first part excellent by acting as an extended epilogue.