Jurassic Park for real

[fitzbew88]

Seemingly serious story about bringing dinosaurs back to life using recovered DNA from "fossils" --- (although obviously not fully fossilized).

The tone of the quoted researches is a "not if but when" attitude. Gulp.

Jurassic Park for real

Hmmm. This is submitted as general interest, I'm not sure there is a paranormal angle. Then again....

 

[Aaron LeClair]

Dinosaurs aren't real. Lets see them clone the devil who is.

 

[fitzbew88]

Dinosaurs aren't real. Lets see them clone the devil who is.

Congress bans dinosaur cloning in: 5...4...3...2...1

 

[Graphimancer]

Excellent article. Fascinating.

These creatures were magnificent, though not well suited to life on earth in it's current configuration.

 

[TClaeys]

I've seen this documentary already even though it says it airs today. I still have it on DVR because I was quite intrigued by it. Artificial reverse selection to make dinosaurs from present day birds. It's not possible right now, but pieces of the evolutionary puzzle are able to be manipulated. In the decades and centuries to come it will be done. If we CAN do it we WILL. I just think it is in our nature to unlock as much of Pandoras box as possible even if it should result in a monstrosity.

 

[7 String]

Very interesting, scary. Like it was said in Jurassic park, " we never asked ourselves, should we do it".

~A

 

[Aaron LeClair]

I think we need to clone penthouse pets and playmates. Too many ugly people. At least in the US.

 

[Siani]

I hope they don't do this. OK, it would be interesting from a human perspective, but what about the poor creatures created? They died out for a reason - presumably because the planet was no longer hospitable to their kind.

Why recreate some poor creature simply because we can? What about the creature itself? It won't be able to live a natural life - who knows what 'natural' is to such an animal, anyway? At best, its natural habitat would be an educated guess. So, it would exist as some laboratory-housed freak of nature, created to satisfy egos and curiosity.

Would we even know how to feed it? Treat it if it became sick? Or would it simply be killed once scientists proved their experiment was workable? To me, this whole notion sounds like human nature in one of its most grotesque manifestations.

 

[fitzbew88]

...it would exist as some laboratory-housed freak of nature, created to satisfy egos and curiosity.

I loved your post, Siani.

When my wife and I talked about this article, one of the first questions that popped into our minds was: "Hey...when this thing is full-grown, what the heck are we going to do with it?" Some of the possibilities made me queasy....

If I was King of the World, I think I would issue an edict that this tissue be frozen and locked up until we collectively have thought about this for a nice...long...time.

On the other side of the coin, however, I'm enormously tempted when I consider what we might learn about dinosaur physiology or sexuality or intelligence and so forth. (But I do not dispute your comment about curiosity and ego.)