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Poll: Do you think humans will ever create a "Jurassic Park" on planet Earth?

Zim Hosein

Zim Hosein

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Well I've got the motion picture Jurassic Park playing in the background and was wondering if anyone thinks that "we" will ever see a "Jurassic Park" here on planet Earth... So?
 
Yes, absolutely.

edit: Here's a really short article I read recently in National Geographic about this.

"I laughed when Steven Spielberg said that cloning extinct animals was inevitable," says Hendrik Poinar of McMaster University, an authority on ancient DNA who served as a scientific consultant for a film about the making of Jurassic Park. "But I'm not laughing anymore, at least about mammoths. This is going to happen. It's just a matter of working out the details."
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I hope replication technology reaches that level someday. Imagine the possibilities. Dinowarfare will be fantastic. I want to ride into battle on a Tyrannosaurus Rex, with an army of Velociraptors behind me.
 
I highly doubt there's going to be an amusement park of previously extinct animals. Perhaps they'll make living specimens, but you won't be paying $120 per family admission and going on a "dinosaur safari".
 
i heard they were turning the clock back genetically on chickens or something. would make for a more dinosaury chicken, but not exactly a raptor
 
Originally posted by: theflyingpig
I hope replication technology reaches that level someday. Imagine the possibilities. Dinowarfare will be fantastic. I want to ride into battle on a Tyrannosaurus Rex, with an army of Velociraptors behind me.
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One step closer to this.
 
Absolutely. If there's money to be made and the fundies can be fooled for while, yes.

I just finished reading crichton's timeline. It involves using time travel to accurately restore medieval ruins in europe and then building tourist businesses around them. His proposed method of time travel is interesting in that it could be used to order and receive material things over the internet without the traditional shipping.
 
Originally posted by: ironwing
Originally posted by: Leros
Originally posted by: MartyMcFly3
I would hope they wouldve learned a lesson from the movie.
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Maybe we can make little tiny dwarf dinosaurs. How awesome would that be?
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We already have them. They're called "birds".
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No no, I want Jurassic Park style dinos.
 
If we can't make dinosaurs from actual dinosaur DNA, someone will come along and make some up once the requisite technology is in place. That'll be small stuff compared to what we'll have when "fashioning" creatures to suit our fancy is possible though. Imagine one of Salvadore Dali's stranger pieces depicted in the flesh. :Q
 
Originally posted by: SlitheryDee
If we can't make dinosaurs from actual dinosaur DNA, someone will come along and make some up once the requisite technology is in place. That'll be small stuff compared to what we'll have when "fashioning" creatures to suit our fancy is possible though. Imagine one of Salvadore Dali's stranger pieces depicted in the flesh. :Q
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Interesting idea. A clock constructed from something like jelly fish that drips down your wall...
 
Originally posted by: LtPage1
Yes, absolutely.

edit: Here's a really short article I read recently in National Geographic about this.

"I laughed when Steven Spielberg said that cloning extinct animals was inevitable," says Hendrik Poinar of McMaster University, an authority on ancient DNA who served as a scientific consultant for a film about the making of Jurassic Park. "But I'm not laughing anymore, at least about mammoths. This is going to happen. It's just a matter of working out the details."
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Mammoths.

not dinosaurs.

pretty much all of the projects that focused on recovering and replicating recovered DNA has now died out. There was a brief surge over the last decade thinking that it was possible, but all of the investigations have reached an insurmountable dead end, more-or-less: There is no viable DNA to recover. Anywhere.

It simply can't happen.


Now...the clasest we can come, i believe, is "re-awakening" some long-dormant dino genes in chickens or other avians, the modern non-extinct equivalent of dinosaurs. Don't now how feasible that is, though.
 
Originally posted by: theflyingpig
I hope replication technology reaches that level someday. Imagine the possibilities. Dinowarfare will be fantastic. I want to ride into battle on a Tyrannosaurus Rex, with an army of Velociraptors behind me.
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IIRC, wasn't there some hidden level on the original Command and Conquer where you faced just that? 😛
 
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
i heard they were turning the clock back genetically on chickens or something. would make for a more dinosaury chicken, but not exactly a raptor
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Hey, this new dinosaur exhibit is great! Can I pet it?

Emusaurus: nom.
 
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