/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.3574020]

>>At least twenty percent of all known mammals are nearing extinction, with large species at greatest risk, according to a recent assessment of the conservation status of 5,487 mammals.
http://news.discovery.com/animals/mammals-extinction-animals-110815.html

for fucks sakes humanity get your shit together.

[Anonymous No.3574040]

No.

[Anonymous No.3574053]

>>3574020
It seems humanity has got its shit together, we seem to only be growing in numbers.

pandas get your shit together

[Anonymous No.3574056]

Those mammals are fucking useless, why should we care? They were asking to be killed for not evolving a suitable defense system.

[Anonymous No.3574059]

Extinction is natural. The only problem is when mass extinction occurs due to constant (and i mean constant) turmoil and change of the environment, which can be caused by manmade change.

No need to save every fucking species out there.

[Anonymous No.3574061]

We should be farming instead. Force them to breed. If they don't? They don't deserve to live.

[Anonymous No.3574063]

you think that is something?

>Some of the creatures that were lost were singularly spectacular and would take a little managing if they were still around. Imagine ground sloths that could look into an upstairs window, tortoises nearly the size of a small Fiat, monitor lizards twenty feet long basking beside desert highways in Western Australia. Alas, they are gone and we live on a much diminished planet. Today, across the whole world, only four types of really hefty (a metric ton or more) land animals survive: elephants, rhinos, hippos, and giraffes. Not for tens of millions of years has life on Earth been so diminutive and tame

I WANTED A FUCKING GIANT TURTEL DAMID!

[Anonymous No.3574067]

DNA sample of every animal we discover, clone them for zoos for future generations.

99% of everything that has lived is extinct anyway.

[Anonymous No.3574069]

>In America, thirty genera of large animals—some very large indeed—disappeared practically at a stroke after the arrival of modern humans on the continent between ten and twenty thousand years ago. Altogether North and South America between them lost about three quarters of their big animals once man the hunter arrived with his flint-headed spears and keen organizational capabilities. Europe and Asia, where the animals had had longer to evolve a useful wariness of humans, lost between a third and a half of their big creatures. Australia, for exactly the opposite reasons, lost no less than 95 percent.

[Anonymous No.3574070]

>implying that this wouldn't be happening even if we didn't exist
>implying extinction was invented by humanity
>blaming humans for all the world's ills instead of joining the scientific elite in figuring out how to make the world a better place

Frequent extinctions happened long before we existed, and will continue to happen until life itself is extinct. Goddamnit, OP. Pic related.

[Anonymous No.3574075]

sure is a lot of underage edgy "dont care" attitude in this thread

[Anonymous No.3574077]

Do they serve any useful purpose for us? At all?

[Anonymous No.3574079]

>Rothschild was easily the most scientific collector of his age, though also the most regrettably lethal, for in the 1890s he became interested in Hawaii, perhaps the most temptingly vulnerable environment Earth has yet produced. Millions of years of isolation had allowed Hawaii to evolve 8,800 unique species of animals and plants. Of particular interest to Rothschild were the islands’ colorful and distinctive birds, often consisting of very small populations inhabiting extremely specific ranges.

>The tragedy for many Hawaiian birds was that they were not only distinctive, desirable, and rare—a dangerous combination in the best of circumstances—but also often heartbreakingly easy to take. The greater koa finch, an innocuous member of the honeycreeper family, lurked shyly in the canopies of koa trees, but if someone imitated its song it would abandon its cover at once and fly down in a show of welcome. The last of the species vanished in 1896, killed by Rothschild’s ace collector Harry Palmer, five years after the disappearance of its cousin the lesser koa finch, a bird so sublimely rare that only one has ever been seen: the one shot for Rothschild’s collection.

[Anonymous No.3574086]

>>3574070
except humanity is the leading contributor of these extinctions not natural processes.

>joining the scientific elite in figuring out how to make the world a better place

yeah cause the world would be a much better place without large mammals right? its not like large mammals play a role in our art, imaginations, etc. it's not like large mammals are totally awesome and interesting. its not like the world would be a more boring place without them. sarcasm

also if man made mass extinctions aren't stopped or drastically reduced now when will they be? when nearly everything else is dead?

[Anonymous No.3574090]

Forget the mammals for a moment, what about the poor amphibians?

Damn chytrid fungi. I keep mine safe, happy, and breeding.

[Anonymous No.3574097]

>>3574086
Nature made us evolve perhaps nature wants us to kill those species off.

[Anonymous No.3574100]

>>3574077
well for one their shit fertilizes the land

[Anonymous No.3574102]

Removing large herbivorous mammals from the African savanna can cause a dramatic shift in the relative abundance of species throughout the food chain, according to scientists from Stanford University, Princeton University and the University of California-Davis. Their findings were published in the Jan. 2 edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

[Anonymous No.3574107]

Why don't we just nuke the surface of the world and live on the moon?

[Anonymous No.3574108]

The PNAS study is timely for several reasons, he added: "Large herbivorous mammals are declining throughout Africa and worldwide, and have already gone extinct in many places. Our results suggest that these declines are likely to have complicated, and often unanticipated, consequences for the entire ecosystem."

[Anonymous No.3574111]

Who cares all the earth needs is a few billion years to reboot everything we don't affect shit.

[Anonymous No.3574117]

>>3574111
a few billion years? you have no concept of our suns lifespan do you?

[Anonymous No.3574123]

>>3574117
Nigga fuck dat yello mother fucker

[Anonymous No.3574125]

>>3574100
We can mass-produce shit by breeding cows and other livestock, your point?

[Anonymous No.3574134]

>>3574125

well then suck on this
>>3574102
>>3574108

[Anonymous No.3574135]

>hurr duurrr whats the point in animals?

whats the point in humans? whats the point in anything?

fuck off

[Anonymous No.3574141]

>>3574135
Our point is to kill animals and make computers do when computers do become self aware they can take over.

[Anonymous No.3574149]

>>3574141
i hope they do take over. we're clearly too retarded to run our own shit.

[Anonymous No.3574172]

>>3574149
yeah :(