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[alietf]

Did.  Did anyone else... just see that?  I mean... is it real?

The Discovery Channel has been flashing an advert about how it's theoretically possible to... essentially... do what Jurassic Park did.  Only minus the eating of the tourists and frog DNA making girls sprout Y chromosomes.  And.. and they're going to try it.

This is probably all one big

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[xaefryl]

And to think I just watched that movie last night. :o

Well, why not try to clone ancient creatures? They've already successfully cloned a human. Well, they say they have, but they destroyed all results before anyone else could confirm it because they were worried about people coming after them about the morals of stem-cell research and cloning.

Personally, I think that, if they could do it and successfully bring back extinct animals, why not? Think about it. There are all sorts of extinct animals that would be great if humans could do something to fix the mistakes they made by killing them off.

Dinosaurs, though, I think would be better off dead. That's far too much damage control to work with.

[alietf]

Oh no, I'm all for the bringing back of the extinct animals. XD;; I guess I'm just questioning the wisdom of bringing back the big bad predators, really. If you were to clone a dinosaur, I'd go for one of the little ones, or an herbivore, personally. That was what I was trying to say.

But, really, it would be great to be able to resurrect the extinct critters.

[xaefryl]

Well, yeah, I'll agree with you there. The big nasties like the Rex and, heck, even the velociraptor, would be a bad idea, given that to them humans = crunchy and good with ketchup. We'd stand no chance against them. Itty-bitty herbivores would still be a bit of trouble, though. They'd have to be contained somewhere because they'd totally eat us out of home and garden.

The mental image there is amusing.

[zimwifepgk]

I DON'T MEAN TO RAIN ON A PARADE, BECAUSE I THINK DINOSAURS ARE COOL TOO, BUT

[alietf]

STOP FLAMMING MY LJ KIDK DDD:

XD; But no, I see your point. I was under the impression though that it wasn't going to be released into the wild to frolic. Maybe I'm wrong. I don't know. I'd be up for it, if they were going to have it in a zoo-type place. AND it wasn't the sort of saurian that would potentially break out and devour hapless computer nerds sneaking about after dark.

You're right, respawning dinosaurs into our current ecosystem--despite how COOL my inner dino-geek thinks it would be--isn't a good idea at all. And you're also right about the extinct species bit, as sad as it is 6.6 I like to think that maybe, if we clean up our act, though, it could remain a possibility. Even as unlikely a thought as that is. 9.9;

And I LOVE THAT SHOW X'D;; Oh my god, it's like my favorite thing to watch on Animal Planet now that Steve is gone. The bit where the female T-Rex was attacking her brother, because of the bid/raptor-esque influences on the saurian family? GREAT. /dinospaz.

Katcomment!

[kat23a]

DON'T WORRY ABOUT JURASSIC PARK EATING OUR ECOSYSTEM! XD; There's no way they'd release 'em into the wild. Not on purpose, at least. ¬.¬

6.6 The scientist in me is sighing over how improbable any chance of success is, because of the low quality of the DNA they have and because of our not-very-good cloning abilities at present, but the geek in me has been going 'WHOOOO!' and running victory laps with a lampshade on her head in the background since reading that second sentence up at the top there.

[zimwifepgk]

I dunno, I just think that if we have the super cloning technologies, why shouldn't we devote the resources to restoring species we're responsible for the destruction of, before we do ones that we had nothing to do with. XD; I'm always sad when I find that a species only exists in zoos.

I'mma go be quiet and stop being an annoying naysayer, though. 9.9;