# You can bring back one extinct species - what do you choose? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 23, 2010, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-bring-back-one-extinct-species-what-do-you-choose/533544 "2010-03-23T22:20:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Lestrade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/94ad74/32.png) [@Lestrade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lestrade)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-bring-back-one-extinct-species-what-do-you-choose/533544/121 "2010-04-08T13:52:17Z")
> [@Meow\_Max](#): > > Ahh yes, but when we genetically engineer them and bring them back, we will add in the all important Bacon genes. Well, if you’re doing complex genetic manipulation anyway, why not plug those genes into a narwhal? They’d sell like hotcakes (uh, magical hotcakes?) if you gave out a free tusk with each baco-narwhal sold. > [@Perciful](#): > > I’d like to bring back the cave man for one day and study him. That sounds like a good idea now, but how will you feel if he beats you at chess? ---
**Author:** ![Gedd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gedd/32/4938_2.png) [@Gedd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gedd)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-bring-back-one-extinct-species-what-do-you-choose/533544/122 "2010-04-08T20:52:09Z")
I’ve got to go back to the first paragraph and vote for a _Velociraptor_. Actually the _Deinonychus_ was bigger so I’ll go with that. Then I’ll take him to work and when that annoying guy in the cube next to me talks to his friends on speaker phone I’ll give the command word and . . . slice and dice. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-bring-back-one-extinct-species-what-do-you-choose/533544/123 "2010-04-11T09:25:28Z")
> [@NoCoolUserName](#): > > Totally off topic, there was a Chinese girl adopted by an Amish couple (we’re very active in the adoption community, so I happened to hear about this). I would love to see & hear how she’s doing. Enculturation, that’s what I’m talkin’ about! The only [accounts](http://able2know.org/topic/115429-1) seem to be in the context of a vaccine-autism story. Or, reading the comments, it could have been the electric currents. Or fluoride in the water… ---
**Author:** ![Ibanez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a4c791/32.png) [@Ibanez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibanez)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-bring-back-one-extinct-species-what-do-you-choose/533544/124 "2010-04-11T13:33:03Z")
Making my campsite safe from velociraptors would definitly add adventure to camping. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-bring-back-one-extinct-species-what-do-you-choose/533544/125 "2010-04-11T13:36:34Z")
> [@Ibanez](#): > > Making my campsite safe from velociraptors would definitly add adventure to camping. But how would you go about doing this? If the answer is “with more velociraptors” I’m on your side! ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-bring-back-one-extinct-species-what-do-you-choose/533544/126 "2010-04-12T14:44:41Z")
I’d bring back _Utahraptor_. Then I’d take it over to [Randall](http://xkcd.com/135/) [Munroe’s\*](http://xkcd.com/212/) [house](http://xkcd.com/87/), [just](http://xkcd.com/292/)to see the look on his face. \*see mouseover ---
**Author:** ![Lestrade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/94ad74/32.png) [@Lestrade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lestrade)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-bring-back-one-extinct-species-what-do-you-choose/533544/127 "2010-04-13T19:31:07Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > I’d bring back _Utahraptor_. Then I’d take it over to [Randall](http://xkcd.com/135/) [Munroe’s\*](http://xkcd.com/212/) [house](http://xkcd.com/87/), [just](http://xkcd.com/292/)to see the look on his face. > > \*see mouseover …Dude, I wouldn’t joke about that, don’t you know a raptor [stole his laptop](http://blag.xkcd.com/2007/03/15/in-which-i-lose-the-originals-of-the-last-three-months-of-comics-and-the-laptop-i-create-them-with/)\*? [QUOTE=Randall’s blag entry] And lastly, my roommates got me a RoboRaptor for Christmas, some sort of mini version of the popular toy you see everywhere. And I can’t help but notice that during the burglary it sat on the shelf and did nothing but watch. Fucking raptors. I guess it should have at least served as a reminder to [never let ground-level windows go unsecured](http://xkcd.com/c87.html). [/QUOTE] [sub]\*Or simply aided and abetted, we’ll never know the whole story.[/sub] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-bring-back-one-extinct-species-what-do-you-choose/533544.md?page=6)