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Post by Kyn on Feb 28, 2018 20:26:27 GMT -5
Just something I read in another thread that I thought deserved it's own thread.
Let's pretend scientists manage to get useable DNA from a dinosaur and successfully clone it. What's the end game?
Do we start seeing cloned dinosaurs in zoos? An island of cloned dinosaurs, a bit like the komodo dragons in Indonesia? Being clones I assume they wouldn't be able to reproduce; would scientists just keep cloning new ones as the old ones died?
Or would they only ever clone one or two, and hide them somewhere like Area 51 to study?
... turns out I have a lot of questions about cloning dinosaurs that I didn't when I woke up this morning.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2018 20:33:29 GMT -5
I saw a documentary about this once. Newman was eaten.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Feb 28, 2018 20:36:08 GMT -5
What a brilliant idea. Somebody should make a movie about this.
More seriously, all scientific data says that no matter how the tissue it preserved, DNA is completely destroyed after about 6 million years, and is completely unreadable long before then. We might be able to clone a Mammoth or Sabre-Tooth Tiger someday, but Dinosaurs won't happen.
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Post by Captain Patren Fenderbaum-X on Feb 28, 2018 20:39:56 GMT -5
It will start with cloning and then breeding and then  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2018 20:42:47 GMT -5
How could we possibly know how to care for them in a healthy, ethical manner?
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Post by Fade is a CodyCryBaby on Feb 28, 2018 20:52:57 GMT -5
I've seen specials about how reverse-engineering some larger birds could result in some pseudo-dinosaur-creatures but meh, why bother. I find the human DNA in pigs thing of the last two years way more unsettling than if they concocted some feathery turkey sized velociraptor.
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Post by Jiren on Feb 28, 2018 20:53:52 GMT -5
What a brilliant idea. Somebody should make a movie about this. More seriously, all scientific data says that no matter how the tissue it preserved, DNA is completely destroyed after about 6 million years, and is completely unreadable long before then. We might be able to clone a Mammoth or Sabre-Tooth Tiger someday, but Dinosaurs won't happen. I have the perfect title "Billy and the cloneasaurus" |
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Post by Milkman Norm on Feb 28, 2018 21:00:26 GMT -5
Only if it's the real ones with feathers and not the Jurassic Park ones.
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Post by aka Cthulhu on Feb 28, 2018 21:27:48 GMT -5
If we could clone dinosaurs, we could end up with mankind's strongest weapon (or mankind's extinction): a t-rex dual wielding revolvers. The guns compensate for it's teeny baby arms.
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Post by Kyn on Feb 28, 2018 21:34:14 GMT -5
What a brilliant idea. Somebody should make a movie about this. More seriously, all scientific data says that no matter how the tissue it preserved, DNA is completely destroyed after about 6 million years, and is completely unreadable long before then. We might be able to clone a Mammoth or Sabre-Tooth Tiger someday, but Dinosaurs won't happen. Although I'm a never say never person, I think it's so unlikely as to be practically impossible; I'm just playing 'what if'? |
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Post by Joe Neglia on Feb 28, 2018 21:34:48 GMT -5
All I know is that Phil Tippett will fail at his one job all over again.
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Post by Mozenrath on Feb 28, 2018 21:40:41 GMT -5
Realistically, I feel like the closest we could get would still not be identical to the real thing, so whatever we could learn from it might be questionable.
Still, it'd be interesting, though harrowing in ways that Jurassic Park couldn't predict. Keep in mind, people who raise ostriches run into the problem that ostriches raised by humans will keep trying to do courtship displays at them instead of other ostriches. T-rex might think people are hot.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2018 21:42:39 GMT -5
Billy and the Cloneasaurus would come to reality.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Feb 28, 2018 21:46:09 GMT -5
Can we at least get the Terror Birds back? At least them?
Oh, and maybe those 40-foot tall sloths. Those were bitchin'.
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Feb 28, 2018 21:46:40 GMT -5
I'm fairly certain I saw a movie once that tells me that would be a bad idea
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Post by SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts on Feb 28, 2018 21:46:46 GMT -5
I saw a documentary about this once. Newman was eaten. So was Samuel L Jackson. |
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Post by Seth Drakin of Monster Crap on Feb 28, 2018 22:00:50 GMT -5
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Post by Mozenrath on Feb 28, 2018 22:01:37 GMT -5
Can we at least get the Terror Birds back? At least them? Oh, and maybe those 40-foot tall sloths. Those were bitchin'. I feel like something like those would be easier. Maybe dodos? |
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Post by Rolent Tex on Feb 28, 2018 22:12:54 GMT -5
Only if it's the real ones with feathers and not the Jurassic Park ones. It’s genetics Norm. We’re making those bastards feather free. That’s where the money is. |
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Post by Starshine on Feb 28, 2018 22:20:28 GMT -5
If the cloning thing doesn't work out we should probably start investing our time and efforts into dinosaur augmentation plastic surgery. People could be whatever dinosaur they wanted. I haven't yet decided if this idea is 'rad,' or 'super rad.'
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