Peter Diamandis
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in process, but it turns out like the MOA is, is got a huge egg requirement and just doing it is going to be challenging.
Super curious.
And just for the numbers, there's 1.9 trillion eggs per year.
That's generated by about 33 billion chickens.
So interesting thoughts on this one, gentlemen.
They're working on mammals and obviously, you know, avian and also, you know, bringing back, I think of the 15 species in the pipeline, two thirds are mammals right now.
So, yeah, the dodo bird, which is native to Mauritius or was native to Mauritius, on their money, on their stamps, on their flag is extinct.
And the country's very excited to bring it back, drive tourism revenue.
Yeah, the blue buck, I think, or something like that.
The blue buck, yeah.
Yeah.
Anyway, I just wanted to, you know, this is the...
This is the science fiction future materializing before us.
We're not going to have dinosaurs per se, though what Colossal is doing is not actually bringing back an exact species.
It's bringing back a single lacrim.
It's being able to say, we're going to make these 300 edits in the genome that will make this species look like this.
We'll have longer tusks.
It'll have woolly hair.
It'll be more cold tolerant.
It will have a longer snout.