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So they brought back dire wolves. Doesn't seem like a good move (twitter.com)
posted 1 months ago by evilplushie 1 months ago by evilplushie +60 / -0
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– Adamrises 29 points 1 months ago +29 / -0

Its probably a wonderful move for modern conservation efforts and the ability to undo man's damage in driving a lot of animals to extinction. We need this level of science just to counteract the damage the Chinese have done just for boner meds alone.

But that's the noble goal, we all have seen how bad it can go in the hands of less capable men. And Jurassic Park was a noble but misguided man doing his best, the actual abuses of this will be horrifying.

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– evilplushie [S] 24 points 1 months ago +25 / -1

The thing is where are they going to be kept? In zoos all their life? I can't imagine reintroducing a 10000 yr dead species into the ecosystem is not going to have hiccups

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– SturmMilfEnthusiast 13 points 1 months ago +13 / -0

I'd imagine some kind of animal sanctuary. If you plan to do anything with them other than show them off as a curiosity, you'd need to give them enough space to act out on some of their instincts, since nobody knows for sure what their natural behavior is or what role they play. Reintroducing wouldn't even be on the table yet, unless whoever is funding them is fantastically retarded.

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– fauxgnaws 1 point 1 months ago +1 / -0

Maybe like an animal theme park?

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– Adamrises 6 points 1 months ago +6 / -0

I would hope so as just proof of concept, but this and the mammoth are both "recently" extinct so they might think "oh we are just undoing man's damage!" and do something retarded like reintroduce them.

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– evilplushie [S] 17 points 1 months ago +17 / -0

scientists are pretty retarded with regards to common sense so it's worrying

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– Adamrises 6 points 1 months ago +6 / -0

Yeah exactly.

Like I see the net positive this could be. It has immense value on returning necessary parts of the ecosystem today like the rhino and other endangered things.

But instead its gonna just be used to create predators that are locked in cages forever for no reason just because we can, and that's the best case scenario.

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– BeefyBelisarius 2 points 1 months ago +2 / -0

They'll probably just keep them in zoos, like when the auroch was briefly brought back in the 30s.

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– dagthegnome 1 point 1 months ago +1 / -0

Don't worry. I'm sure their population will be kept in check by environmental factors like simping Jon Snow and shitty screenwriting.

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– Cyberguy64 13 points 1 months ago +13 / -0

I've personally always thought the real problem with Jurrasic Park was less "We recreated dinosaurs." and more "We were flippant about recreating dinosaurs."

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– LinkR 12 points 1 months ago +12 / -0

I've always wondered what sort of world they would have had if Newman didn't go and shit up the entire thing. I know failure was probably inevitable, but they could have had time to get to a point where shit reaaly hits the fan, because they would have gone even further.

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– Adamrises 13 points 1 months ago +13 / -0

I think that was the point of the Jurassic World movies, at least the first one. They basically cleaned the slate and managed to get a fully functional park.

And then they needed bigger "wows" so they kept splicing shit more and more until they created something so ridiculous that it outsmarted them and they weren't able to easily put it down either.

Heck the two Jurassic World Evolution games by Frontier showed how easy it was to fall into the trap yourself, with more insane monsters being let loose to fight each other giving you massive short term boosts but then you have a nightmare of an aggressive creature bred for combat that you have to keep caged somehow.

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– MegoThor 7 points 1 months ago +7 / -0

“Newman!”

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– fauxgnaws 2 points 1 months ago +2 / -0

In the book, scientists engineer the dinos to be missing an amino acid and they only raised one sex of dinos so they couldn't reproduce on their own.

Over the course of the disaster it's revealed that the amphibian DNA used to fill in missing gaps let them change sex and so reproduce, and that the dinos found a natural source of the missing protein.

That's the twist at the end is that the Nedry situation and the hurricane just revealed that the park had already failed to contain the dinosaurs. So without Nedry they just would have gone on longer without knowing the dinosaurs were already loose. The park was ready to open soon so probably they wouldn't even have resurrected any new species.

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– Adamrises 10 points 1 months ago +10 / -0

The details of the story are really just an irrelevant inevitability. The way they talk about "chaos theory" is self-indulgent jerk off material, but its not entirely wrong.

At the end of the day, humans are flawed and people with less than pure intentions will always come into the power and control of these technologies and animals. And that means something bad will always end up happening with them. Whether that's something small or "The Chinese let a TRex loose in NYC as retaliation for tariffs" level retarded.

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