My mistake. I just hope that if he clones himself some raptors, he'll have studied:lewiswhitling said:
Canadian Hopes to Resurrect Dinosaurs With Chicken DNA
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actually there's a whole episode of NOVA about a winged and feathered raptor they found and what they think it could and could not dolewiswhitling said:
it's a pretty cool show
I always knew we Canadians would be the first ones to have dinosaur legions.
Don't act surprised when the beer-swilling T-Rex Corp. descends upon your puny nations, hockey sticks in hand, leading the charge to the doughnut store on the backs of their mighty reptilian steeds.
Don't act surprised when the beer-swilling T-Rex Corp. descends upon your puny nations, hockey sticks in hand, leading the charge to the doughnut store on the backs of their mighty reptilian steeds.
"...Homeobox genes (or Hox genes), which flick on during development and govern which body parts go where, were first found in fruit flies in the 1980s, says Sean Carroll, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. (Experiments to find Hox genes were straight out of a horror movie: scientists created insects with legs where their mouths should be.)..."
"...The first step is figuring out the normal process of chicken development, ?so we don?t develop a mutant chicken that has nothing to do with development or evolution,? he says. (Think of mothers who took thalidomide, a drug used to treat morning sickness in the 1960s, many of whose babies were born with flipper-like hands and feet.)..."
Source: http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/08/20/the-quest-to-build-a-dinosaur/
Yeah...it'll be interesting to see what happens in things don't go flawlessly (and we know nothing is perfect). Not really sure I'd want to see the results of flawed experimentation. I mean the fruit fly had legs where its mouth was supposed to be! Ahh!
At any rate, there are so many practical/ethical/etc. things to go through so I'm not sure if I'd like to see this go through. On one hand, proving evolution and advancing science is great, but on the other, how far will we need to go? Maybe it will end up like the movies, where next thing you know we've got experimentation problems among all kinds of life forms (humans included), or new biological weapons (Though it would be cool to see an army of dinosaurs).
"...The first step is figuring out the normal process of chicken development, ?so we don?t develop a mutant chicken that has nothing to do with development or evolution,? he says. (Think of mothers who took thalidomide, a drug used to treat morning sickness in the 1960s, many of whose babies were born with flipper-like hands and feet.)..."
Source: http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/08/20/the-quest-to-build-a-dinosaur/
Yeah...it'll be interesting to see what happens in things don't go flawlessly (and we know nothing is perfect). Not really sure I'd want to see the results of flawed experimentation. I mean the fruit fly had legs where its mouth was supposed to be! Ahh!
At any rate, there are so many practical/ethical/etc. things to go through so I'm not sure if I'd like to see this go through. On one hand, proving evolution and advancing science is great, but on the other, how far will we need to go? Maybe it will end up like the movies, where next thing you know we've got experimentation problems among all kinds of life forms (humans included), or new biological weapons (Though it would be cool to see an army of dinosaurs).
i almost died laughing at this. but awesome idea, and if we do it in space then when the raptors break free they cant get to us =DGlerken said:
What if we could have mini dinosaurs? The we could collect the and make them battle.....JimmyBassatti said:Silly Canadians
It would be cool, but I mean, we don't need full-sized dinosaurs, which, someone will do, even after we all say "Nooooooooooooooooo!" But, alas, I'll make sure to put electric fencing around my house
I wish that were true, because being safe from dinosaurs seems like a good thing, but it isn't true at all. Tigers and elephants have both escaped from zoos before, and they were both rather violent about it, so I'm going to stick with saying let's just make-believe.sgtshock said:
Tiger Escapes Zoo [http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/12/25/tiger.attack/index.html]
Elephant Escapes Zoo [http://www.sling.com/video/show/106634/81/Elephant-Escapes-Zoo]
If he succeeds all those Battery Hens we've eaten will come back for revenge...Battery Human's at Dino-farm...come and eat them straight from the cage! Herd discounts for up-to 10 biped carnivores!
I love how often "show them Jurassic Park!" comes up in the comments, because it shows these people totally didn't read the article and how the professor leading the project was the science consultant for all three Jurassic Park movies.
(Me? I'm all for some KFD. Bring 'em!)
-- Steve
(Me? I'm all for some KFD. Bring 'em!)
-- Steve