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  • You have very fair points, but I do have a small amount of hope that one day we could find or recreate usable T-Rex dna.

    Yes, I know that DNA degrades relatively quickly, and finding DNA more than a hundred thousands years old/ 1 million years old is incredibly rare, but I remember reading that in some edge cases that DNA has been found in cases of 1 million or 10 million years old, and around a decade or more ago, it was reported that possible cellular structures that may contain T-Rex DNA had possibly been found.

    I wouldn’t get my hopes up, and there are hundreds of potential problems though.

    I’m not a paleontologist or geneticist though.














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    5 months ago

    This is a misconception bordering on a fucking lie. For all intents and purposes, in China you do own the land you purchase. The 70 year lease is mostly a formality. The government owns all the land legally speaking, much the same as literally any other country on Earth. Regardless of what a piece of paper says, the land is yours. The 70 year lease is just so the government can keep tabs on all the land in the country for different purposes, such as organization, urban planning, taxation, regulating land use and waste, and the state will compensate you for more than your home is worth, if the land is required for development, ala imminent domain.

    Ironic that despite officially being a lease, in China you own your land more than you do in the U.S., which is a blanket nightmarish patchwork of banks and home owners associations.