JP was written and filmed before people had discovered Utahraptors.
the book says that they were Deinonychuses, and that by some fictitious zoological standard, they had to had to be classified as Velociraptors.
They were called that in the movie, but since Velociraptors are, as you said, about 3’ tall they wouldn’t be intimidating to the audience as the Deinonychuses which are 7’ or so.
Bringing dinosaurs back to life? Jurassic Park? Eh not really, do you even know what the Jurassic is? Use your brains. Mammoths went extinct roughly 4500 years ago. Dinosaurs went extinct 65 MILLION YEARS AGO. That’s what I call a big fucking difference.
There’s NO WAY dinosaur DNA could survive for 135 million years (when dinosaurs were most abundant). All that’s left of dinosaurs is fossilized remains and all species of birds.
Leave the past alone. How about investing some of the millions of dollars invested trying to recreate ancient creatures into advancing medicine instead. There’s like a few diseases and viruses that still have no cure or effective treatments.
I don’t want to drag the food discussion into this thread, but most of the top 5 killer diseases in western civilization are largely preventable.
Doesn’t preventing disease result in more living people? I thought internet users hated people.
Nah. Just you.
Uhm, actually, I happen to be quite affine to people, considering I am a people.
UNLIKE SOME PEOPLE
You’re right, we need to push at least 5 fatal and communicable diseases to the top of that list, so we can get our revenge upon the sociable ones.
Well yeah. You could. Or you could have wooly mammoths.
It’s entirely possible to bring back dinosaurs and you don’t need their DNA. All that has to be done is to genetically engineer the evolutionary changes in birds until they revert to back to their formerly dinosaur selves. Work has already been done and they’ve found how to reverse shorter tails, feathers, beaks, you name it.
I wanna Headcrab.
Yes, because this kind of thing NEVER has medical applications for humankind. :rolleyes:
I want raptor claws for hands.
Do you know how efficient mammoth kidneys are!? It’s insane! The medical benefits will be tremendous! Dialysis will be done by riding a fucking mammoth!!!(while hooking yourself up to its bloodstream)
Seems reasonable.
Science does not work that way. You can’t dictate what scientists should be studying or that resources would be better spent elsewhere. Science works because scientists shoot theories wherever they feel like shooting. That helps with enthusiasm: you are much more excited and efficient doing what you choose to do.
Also, scientific theories and technology development is done in the same way that evolution developed species. Species evolved because various individuals had slight random mutations in their DNA, then the best ones were selected.
That is how science works as well: each scientist grab a few theories and use pieces of those (like in a sexual procreation) and put a few new pieces that he made himself (that is mutation) to develop a new theory. What “dictates” if that theory will be used by other scientists to develop new theories or technologies is natural selection.
Now, imagine how much pieces of knowledge would cloning an extinct animal bring to science. For instance, it would increase the understanding of how DNA works. Also, the instruments developed to recreate those animals could be used elsewhere. And that certainly includes medicine.
Birds most likely evolved from smaller raptors. Giving back certain dinosaurian features like long tails, teeth and claws is not the same as creating the actual species that lived millions of years ago.
There’s no point in bringing back extinct animals, that’s not how evolution is supposed to work. 99% of all life in Earths history is extinct, that’s just the way it is. Eventually all current species will be extinct while new ones thrive.
Never said it was a good idea. And who says its not the same? Genetically they would be identical enough to count as close ancestors.