Poll: If we could make Jurassic Park, should we?

[Alternative]

Yes, let's create animals with no natural enemies and release them into eco-systems totally unprepared for that. Maybe there's a few Australians around who can explain to us why doing that is an awesome idea that could never go wrong?

Im pretty sure your first sentence is said by Malcolm in the books.

But yeah, dinosaurs are extinct lets leave it that way.

Now instead lets use that technology to bring back animals that where made extinct by human interference

 

[Random berk]

While a park with dinosaurs would be great to see, it wouldn't work even if you had the best security in the world. They simply couldn't survive. How many people here have ever tried keeping a pet reptile? Those people will know that even just keeping that alive takes a lot of climate control. Now imagine doing that for an animal the size of a bus, from a climate that was several degrees hotter than Earth today, as well as way more humid and with a higher oxygen content. I doubt you ould even get the eggs to hatch.

 

[Casual Shinji]

If you ever read the book you'd know that even with competent personnel it'd still be a disaster waiting to happen.

In the book, even before the power gets shut down dinosaurs are roaming free across the park, breeding, and making it off the island. Even something as minor as dinosaur poop becomes a problem since the bacteria needed to break it down went extinct millions of years ago.

I loved the books in that they really put some solid question marks behind the progress of science and the drive of major corporations. While I do think the situation sketched in the books was a bit over the top and Malcolm was an alarmist, the books made very good points why people should not build things like Jurassic Park. So my answer is no.

I like how in the book the dinosaurs are very different than how people expect them to be. The T-Rex has a forked tongue, the Brachiosaurus has a agile swan-like neck, and eventhough they're the size of a house they're extremely fast in the way they move.
In the book the Asian scientist guy even suggests to John Hammond how they might want to re-engineer the dinosaurs so that they look and act more intune to how people have always imagined them.

 

[Scarim Coral]

The only thime I would it would be acceptable is-

The people had no real face to face with the dinosaur (e.g. see them via camera or a telescope). If the people still want to see them for real, they must sign a paper that they know the risk and can't sue them at all for the possible danger they may encounter.

Have a militery nearby in case anything bad happens.

 

[Joccaren]

Yeah, no problems with bringing the Dinosaurs back. It could be done in a safe and controlled manner, and worst case send in some Fighter craft and just take them all out from the air. Flying dinosaurs you say? I doubt they can fly supersonic.

 

[Ytomyth]

It would probably not be a good or especially smart idea...but it would be awesome. D:

Just make it on Australia, it's an island and people know how to handle tough shit there.

The people had no real face to face with the dinosaur (e.g. see them via camera or a telescope). If the people still want to see them for real, they must sign a paper that they know the risk and can't sue them at all for the possible danger they may encounter.

That would merely be placing the responsibility somewhere else, you'd still have all the (probable) problems and dangers of dinosaurs. Just because the park can't be sued doesn't mean it's safe all of a sudden.

 

[Alcamonic]

Think of how much fun a Dino D-Day tank would be!

No water living ones please, I have enough trouble with deep water as it is.

 

[Laurents van Cauwenberghe]

ju...just show me a T-rex

 

[Wintermoot]

maybe if you install a kill switch

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

If we have the scientific knowledge required to massively reconstruct/alter DNA sequences we should think long and hard about the implications involved in bringing back extinct lifeforms.

And while we do that, we should totally engineer some Deathclaws.

 

[HouseOfSyn]

No, we should make a Cretaceous Park instead.

I got it. A 'Cretaceous Park' means T-Rex. A 'Jurassic Park' means boring herbivores.

 

[Rowan93]

They're nowhere near as dangerous as people are acting like they are. They're animals. Stay outside of the enclosure, and don't let the animals out of the enclosure. If they somehow get out of the enclosure, shoot them.

It's not complicated or difficult. Especially compared to building a dinosaur.

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

I don't see why 'should' comes into it, if it's a matter of doing it for the lols or not, then I don't have a preference either way as far as ethics are concerned. If it's for scientific purposes, and the research done will be of use somehow, then yes, we should. There's no reason why it should be designed and run by idiots. Personally, yes please, I want to see a T-Rex. Although really, I don't think we're going for Jurassic if that's the goal.

 

[IndomitableSam]

Yes please. Then the people with more money than sense will go and we'll just fucking leave them there and secretley film it all. Jersey Shore visits Jurassic Park? Yes please.

 

[Jamieson 90]

I think one of the main points that Michael Crichton is trying to get across with the novel is just how dangerous messing with genetics can be. The whole they were too busy with questioning whether they could instead of whether they should point.

My view is that there are some things that just aren't supposed to be messed with, re-introducing a deadly predator to the food chain with the potential to kill us isn't one of them, especially if the only reason to do it is for our supposed 'entertainment'.

 

[Alexi089]

hmmm...
Best case scenario, we learn more about some very interesting species of animal and build a steadily improving park to house them in for generations to come.

Worst case scenario, they overrun said park, learn to swim and travel to the continents, exterminating the human race as they go. Eventually, they settle down and this happens:



I think we can all agree that there are much worse ways for the human race to end

dinosaurs can't go into space, right?

Also, yes. Yes they can... sorry:


Is it bad I can remember my childhood shows this well?

Oh, if you're bored, watch this clip from 2:30-3:00. Possibly the funniest conversation between the good guy and his evil arch nemisis I've ever seen:

 

[loa]

When the first tests of atomic bomb started, scientists were unsure if this could maybe ignite the atmosphere killing all life on earth but it was done anyway.
So I don't think "should we do this" even matters here since we are such big dumbasses, we'll do whatever we can do anyway.

 

[llew]

I say yes, then one can finally go hunting with a tank and not be chastised for overkill. Also, imagine the steaks.

... i was sold at tank...

 

[itsthesheppy]

I would totally do this. I can't imagine why we shouldn't. The real word doesn't operate via movie logic. Remember that the disaster in the movie took place because of computer magic that doesn't really exist in the real world. We'll be safe.

 

[Chemical Alia]

If you ever read the book you'd know that even with competent personnel it'd still be a disaster waiting to happen.

In the book, even before the power gets shut down dinosaurs are roaming free across the park, breeding, and making it off the island. Even something as minor as dinosaur poop becomes a problem since the bacteria needed to break it down went extinct millions of years ago.

Yeah, didn't some little baby in Costa Rica get its face chewed off by compys in its crib at some part in the beginning? The Lost World book touched on the aspect of disease and animals that had spread to different islands/bodies washing ashore, and the local governments trying desperately to cover it up.