Post by RR Admin Trueno on Dec 22, 2008 17:48:31 GMT -6
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the real story.
The year is 2000 at the turn of the century. Everyone is home blasting off fireworks, drinking champagne, and most of all, reminiscing about times past. Though, all is not well in the world. Due to mass poaching and illegally overkilling animals through hunting, many species have gone extinct. In fact, practically all species in North America have gone extinct due to such extreme climate changes as of late, as well as these killings. Society has no clue what to do about this; what will happen to the ecosystem if all of the predators are taken out of the picture? The herbivorous animals will overpopulate and destroy crops, plantlife, and even some buildings. It has to be stopped somehow, and the government is leaning towards pesticides. Eco-organizations are extremely against this idea, but they aren’t very powerful, and nothing can stop the government from deciding what to do, despite the fact that it was supposed to be a democracy. During this evening celebration, no one happens to notice the huge rock, falling from the sky and coalescing in various colors, a huge icy tail behind it as it plummets through the night sky.
While everyone else is out celebrating, a team of head scientists are hard at work discussing what should be done to prevent the downfall of the ecosystem. They predict that, in a short time, if they can’t kill the insects and herbivores, they will multiply at faster rates than ever before, destroying the landscape and killing off each other, eventually leading to the other species’ downfall through lack of food, habitat, and so forth. Who knows, perhaps even the poachers will take advantage of the dying species, selling the animals that have ivory tusks for high profit. Elephants will surely die out if this continues, as well as many other animals. The world seems so empty, now that the meat-eaters are gone. They took up so much space in the world that no one noticed what they took for granted. The team of scientists, however, have unlocked a new technology that has allowed them to clone exact replicas of beings; so far, they’ve done mice. That’s it. Could they really do such a thing with the carcasses of dead animals? “That’s preposterous!” shouts one. “We could never do such a thing, the cells would have all died and there would be no undamaged tissue to gain DNA from!” He did have a point; many of the animals were killed inhumanely, starved to death, or died in conflict with other animals, so they were badly beaten up. “No…” says a tall, shady scientist, standing up and walking over to another room. The other scientists sitting at the long table whisper to each other. He comes back with a small vial, perhaps only a few inches tall by a few centimeters wide, that held a tiny, microscopic object.
“This, ladies and gentleman, is the last remaining trace of carnivorous animal left on this earth. Remember when the animals began to disappear, we were prompted to study the wolf and why its numbers were declining so rapidly? We took that captive zoo wolf, Evo. We took his DNA and did studies to see if it was a genetic fault, and came up with nothing. But we never disposed of this, you see,” he said, swirling the vial around a bit. “This is our key to bringing them all back.” The other man stood up again and yelled, “No, it can’t be! We’ve never brought back a dead animal, it just can’t be--” He stopped the man. “--but we can try.” The other man said nothing, just grumbled and sat back down. And so it was settled. They would try to recreate an extinct species using only dead cells and DNA. Instead of using the traditional method of choosing a surrogate mother, probably a dog, to carry the pups, the team had decided to take a completely different route; open-air observation. But would they succeed?
Two months later, March 1st, 2000, any hope had been lost from the team of scientists, working in a secluded laboratory that even the most technologically advanced instruments were incapable of detecting. No one could know what they were trying to do; it could be illegal, nowadays. The good news was, they had found that the hair had a small sample of undamaged cells, which contained enough DNA for two experiments. The cells, upon inspection, didn’t look quite normal… they had a nucleus and the smaller parts that made up the cell, but something just seemed… different. The female scientist yawned as she pulled away from the microscope before her, glancing at the clock; it was twelve o’clock at night. Even after two months, no one could understand why their attempts to clone this wolf weren’t working. All hope was practically drained from the lab; both samples were gone, and they had nothing else to work from. Let’s face it; the wolves are extinct now.
She glanced back into the microscope and noticed a strange, faded purple strand of DNA; to this, she was shocked. “DNA isn’t purple!” Still, she disregarded it, foolish of a scientist, and went off to call everyone out of bed from her cell phone. Tired and groggy, the team of scientists gathered and they all looked inside the microscope, shocked, but the senior scientist, old and cynical, had a logical explanation. “It seems to me that you, Sarah, in your carelessness, have spilled dye on the cells.” He said, glaring at her. She refused to be put down, though she knew he was probably right; she’d used other colors of dye to view the other slides more properly, but not purple. They only had red, green, and blue at the moment, for purple was on redorder.
Soon after, the growing stages were in place as the . The cloning process had begun, and the two unborn wolves were beginning to grow inside a large glass tank, airtight. The tank was pumped with carefully and meticulously with precise doses of vitamins and minerals, as if they were normal pups growing inside a female dog; everything the growing creatures would need to survive through the development stage. The open-air observation was put into action, with each scientist recording a log of observations each day, testing the quality of the liquids through highly-sterilized and careful technology. Week after week, the canid progressed more and more through its stages of growth, growing larger and larger and filling up space in the tanks. Eventually, they grew too large for the tanks, and that was when the scientists knew it wouldn’t be much longer until they were “born”. After a period of sixty-four days of growth and development, the scientists began to prepare to remove the two, one male, one female, from their tanks, to officially be “alive” and cloned. They had done it; cloned two live animals out of dead cells.
Just as Sarah, the female scientist, reached in with sterilized gloves, only to be taken aback; jumping back a few steps, heart racing, the young wolf pup, she realized, wasn’t as small as she had seen it yesterday. Actually, it was quite large, practically bursting out of the large tank; it was the male. Its head snapped to face the scientist and its eyes glowed purple as it stretched and flexed its powerful arm muscles, trying to escape from the enclosed tank. It could seemingly breathe underwater… struggling, he finally broke the glass, and leapt on top of the scientist, followed swiftly by the female, eyes glowing and muscles rippling. They shot off into the streets of the city, wreaking havok and causing destruction. They bit animals, but no humans, oddly; the animals, somehow, turned into the same type of glowing, ethereal animal that the wolves did… other than the strange colors and exotic markings, they were just the same as any other animal. Sure, some of them inherited the normal colors from far down the line of the original wolf, Evo, too. Sarah had managed to find a few hairs trapped away in the tanks from which the animals had came, and tested them under a microscope. It seemed as though they radiated purple at the base, where they would attach to the follicle, and the rest was a normal-colored wolf hair strand. Many thought she was crazy. She couldn’t get any to believe that these animals were other worldly. And yet… they were.
Now, these animals are nothing new. They’ve taken over the wild lands, and sometimes even walk about the populated human land. But now, they normally stay within the boundaries of the three packs they’ve established. Some are normally colored, like Evo, and others have inherited the psychedelic colors of those very first test-tube wolves, who we’ve come to know as Tess for the female and Yazo for the male. The humans have learned to live with these new animals, and now, they’re not taken by surprise any longer. It seems as though strange powers have been left only to the wolves, however; some sprout feathery wings, and others have the ability to see into the future. Others still have the power of Growth, to make things regrow or heal, like plants and cuts. There are many other powers that these wolves can have, called “gifts”, and no two are alike. The gifts advance as the animal grows, and some things about their gifts must be learned on their own.
It’s 2008, and animals are now a science project. Who will you aide in this science experiment, where wolves have been resurrected, as well as many other animals in the world? Who will you stand by in this Resurrection?
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[/size]The year is 2000 at the turn of the century. Everyone is home blasting off fireworks, drinking champagne, and most of all, reminiscing about times past. Though, all is not well in the world. Due to mass poaching and illegally overkilling animals through hunting, many species have gone extinct. In fact, practically all species in North America have gone extinct due to such extreme climate changes as of late, as well as these killings. Society has no clue what to do about this; what will happen to the ecosystem if all of the predators are taken out of the picture? The herbivorous animals will overpopulate and destroy crops, plantlife, and even some buildings. It has to be stopped somehow, and the government is leaning towards pesticides. Eco-organizations are extremely against this idea, but they aren’t very powerful, and nothing can stop the government from deciding what to do, despite the fact that it was supposed to be a democracy. During this evening celebration, no one happens to notice the huge rock, falling from the sky and coalescing in various colors, a huge icy tail behind it as it plummets through the night sky.
While everyone else is out celebrating, a team of head scientists are hard at work discussing what should be done to prevent the downfall of the ecosystem. They predict that, in a short time, if they can’t kill the insects and herbivores, they will multiply at faster rates than ever before, destroying the landscape and killing off each other, eventually leading to the other species’ downfall through lack of food, habitat, and so forth. Who knows, perhaps even the poachers will take advantage of the dying species, selling the animals that have ivory tusks for high profit. Elephants will surely die out if this continues, as well as many other animals. The world seems so empty, now that the meat-eaters are gone. They took up so much space in the world that no one noticed what they took for granted. The team of scientists, however, have unlocked a new technology that has allowed them to clone exact replicas of beings; so far, they’ve done mice. That’s it. Could they really do such a thing with the carcasses of dead animals? “That’s preposterous!” shouts one. “We could never do such a thing, the cells would have all died and there would be no undamaged tissue to gain DNA from!” He did have a point; many of the animals were killed inhumanely, starved to death, or died in conflict with other animals, so they were badly beaten up. “No…” says a tall, shady scientist, standing up and walking over to another room. The other scientists sitting at the long table whisper to each other. He comes back with a small vial, perhaps only a few inches tall by a few centimeters wide, that held a tiny, microscopic object.
“This, ladies and gentleman, is the last remaining trace of carnivorous animal left on this earth. Remember when the animals began to disappear, we were prompted to study the wolf and why its numbers were declining so rapidly? We took that captive zoo wolf, Evo. We took his DNA and did studies to see if it was a genetic fault, and came up with nothing. But we never disposed of this, you see,” he said, swirling the vial around a bit. “This is our key to bringing them all back.” The other man stood up again and yelled, “No, it can’t be! We’ve never brought back a dead animal, it just can’t be--” He stopped the man. “--but we can try.” The other man said nothing, just grumbled and sat back down. And so it was settled. They would try to recreate an extinct species using only dead cells and DNA. Instead of using the traditional method of choosing a surrogate mother, probably a dog, to carry the pups, the team had decided to take a completely different route; open-air observation. But would they succeed?
Two months later, March 1st, 2000, any hope had been lost from the team of scientists, working in a secluded laboratory that even the most technologically advanced instruments were incapable of detecting. No one could know what they were trying to do; it could be illegal, nowadays. The good news was, they had found that the hair had a small sample of undamaged cells, which contained enough DNA for two experiments. The cells, upon inspection, didn’t look quite normal… they had a nucleus and the smaller parts that made up the cell, but something just seemed… different. The female scientist yawned as she pulled away from the microscope before her, glancing at the clock; it was twelve o’clock at night. Even after two months, no one could understand why their attempts to clone this wolf weren’t working. All hope was practically drained from the lab; both samples were gone, and they had nothing else to work from. Let’s face it; the wolves are extinct now.
She glanced back into the microscope and noticed a strange, faded purple strand of DNA; to this, she was shocked. “DNA isn’t purple!” Still, she disregarded it, foolish of a scientist, and went off to call everyone out of bed from her cell phone. Tired and groggy, the team of scientists gathered and they all looked inside the microscope, shocked, but the senior scientist, old and cynical, had a logical explanation. “It seems to me that you, Sarah, in your carelessness, have spilled dye on the cells.” He said, glaring at her. She refused to be put down, though she knew he was probably right; she’d used other colors of dye to view the other slides more properly, but not purple. They only had red, green, and blue at the moment, for purple was on redorder.
Soon after, the growing stages were in place as the . The cloning process had begun, and the two unborn wolves were beginning to grow inside a large glass tank, airtight. The tank was pumped with carefully and meticulously with precise doses of vitamins and minerals, as if they were normal pups growing inside a female dog; everything the growing creatures would need to survive through the development stage. The open-air observation was put into action, with each scientist recording a log of observations each day, testing the quality of the liquids through highly-sterilized and careful technology. Week after week, the canid progressed more and more through its stages of growth, growing larger and larger and filling up space in the tanks. Eventually, they grew too large for the tanks, and that was when the scientists knew it wouldn’t be much longer until they were “born”. After a period of sixty-four days of growth and development, the scientists began to prepare to remove the two, one male, one female, from their tanks, to officially be “alive” and cloned. They had done it; cloned two live animals out of dead cells.
Just as Sarah, the female scientist, reached in with sterilized gloves, only to be taken aback; jumping back a few steps, heart racing, the young wolf pup, she realized, wasn’t as small as she had seen it yesterday. Actually, it was quite large, practically bursting out of the large tank; it was the male. Its head snapped to face the scientist and its eyes glowed purple as it stretched and flexed its powerful arm muscles, trying to escape from the enclosed tank. It could seemingly breathe underwater… struggling, he finally broke the glass, and leapt on top of the scientist, followed swiftly by the female, eyes glowing and muscles rippling. They shot off into the streets of the city, wreaking havok and causing destruction. They bit animals, but no humans, oddly; the animals, somehow, turned into the same type of glowing, ethereal animal that the wolves did… other than the strange colors and exotic markings, they were just the same as any other animal. Sure, some of them inherited the normal colors from far down the line of the original wolf, Evo, too. Sarah had managed to find a few hairs trapped away in the tanks from which the animals had came, and tested them under a microscope. It seemed as though they radiated purple at the base, where they would attach to the follicle, and the rest was a normal-colored wolf hair strand. Many thought she was crazy. She couldn’t get any to believe that these animals were other worldly. And yet… they were.
Now, these animals are nothing new. They’ve taken over the wild lands, and sometimes even walk about the populated human land. But now, they normally stay within the boundaries of the three packs they’ve established. Some are normally colored, like Evo, and others have inherited the psychedelic colors of those very first test-tube wolves, who we’ve come to know as Tess for the female and Yazo for the male. The humans have learned to live with these new animals, and now, they’re not taken by surprise any longer. It seems as though strange powers have been left only to the wolves, however; some sprout feathery wings, and others have the ability to see into the future. Others still have the power of Growth, to make things regrow or heal, like plants and cuts. There are many other powers that these wolves can have, called “gifts”, and no two are alike. The gifts advance as the animal grows, and some things about their gifts must be learned on their own.
It’s 2008, and animals are now a science project. Who will you aide in this science experiment, where wolves have been resurrected, as well as many other animals in the world? Who will you stand by in this Resurrection?
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