On one of our other properties, we’ve previously mentioned this possibility: using CRISPR and other DNA tech, to “bring back” the wooly mammoth (yes there is a more than passing resemblance there). And yes, we are likely able right now to do some version of this, in real life. Not science fiction: science fact. [Over $15 million has been raised by a start up that intends (it says) to “do the thing” — let’s hope… not.]

Indeed, as Ian Malcolm (wisely) intoned, “just because you can do something… doesn’t mean you should do it….” [Doubly so, without ever even a serious thought — about the evolutionary science involved here. These mammoths were selected for extinction… for a reason. We literally do not know what long extinct bacterial or viral agents might have died with them — ones that might well affect us modern, relatively sanitized humans more dramatically than say ebola (and be far more contagious, to boot — airborne, on the winds!) — for just one (horrifying) example. We do not have Neanderthal immune systems, afterall.]

So yeh — it’s a bad idea, Steve — especially since no one can articulate any form of credible, actual need, for a mammoth, from a biological diversity standpoint.

But I digress, from my punchline — such as it is.

You see, elsewhere this week we read of a sort of “junk-science” assertion that perhaps a species of about three foot tall proto-humanoid, called H. floresiensis might still be hiding in the jungles of Indonesia… living in very small groups, out of sight of the modern world.

Personally, I doubt it. But never say never, right?

In any event, these would be lil’ hobbits… might only resemble… Powerliners, in intellectual capacity.

So… very lil’ need to use CRISPR — we might just study the oddly misshapen habits, and craniums of these three proto-hominids, depicted above.

That’s it — I’m out.