Is it possible to create a real live Jurassic Park?

[jbrnt]

May be we can have the next best thing which is to create a highly detailed 3d jurassic environment that we can walk into wearing head monitors. We have a much higher chance of achieving this than acquiring dino DNA.

[kuroman]

Well I'm more interessted in the shit we can find in the vostok lake as it is sealed for millions of years now and it might have a whole different set of creatures

[jinjuro]

Technically chickens and birds are dinosaurs. Many of its genes is turn off and many is turn on. With a lot testing finding the right combination. We can possibly create a dinosaur like animal but not 100% dinosaur that roam many million years ago.

[oXo]

I think it might be possible but it needs many billions and crazy scientists with no obvious gain.

[bryant.coleman]

Check this, pretty interesting:

14 extinct animals that could be resurrected

http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/photos/14-extinct-animals-that-could-be-resurrected/fit-to-be-cloned

To successfully clone an extinct animal, scientists need to find animal DNA that is almost entirely intact, so some species will make better candidates for resurrection than others. For instance, recently extinct animals that have been preserved in museums make good candidates, as do ancient animals that were preserved in permafrost during the last ice age.

[zolace]

 There’s only 2 problems with bringing back the dinosaurs.
One, successfully assembling the genetic code (see the book The Lost World [AFTER reading the first one!!!]).
Two, they will never be free.
No matter how much I want a Jurassic Park, I say it shouldn’t happen. Why? Simply because keeping animals in captivity is wrong.

[Reuben]

There’s only 2 problems with bringing back the dinosaurs.
One, successfully assembling the genetic code (see the book The Lost World [AFTER reading the first one!!!]).
Two, they will never be free.
No matter how much I want a Jurassic Park, I say it shouldn’t happen. Why? Simply because keeping animals in captivity is wrong.

What about eating them?

[jinjuro]

There’s only 2 problems with bringing back the dinosaurs.
One, successfully assembling the genetic code (see the book The Lost World [AFTER reading the first one!!!]).
Two, they will never be free.
No matter how much I want a Jurassic Park, I say it shouldn’t happen. Why? Simply because keeping animals in captivity is wrong.

The number 2 problem wouldn't be a problem to them because they obviously not think it as problem. Heck they will even clone the neanderthal. Those kind of morality is not on those scientist.

[bryant.coleman]

No matter how much I want a Jurassic Park, I say it shouldn’t happen. Why? Simply because keeping animals in captivity is wrong.

What load of BS? Sometimes, keeping animals in captivity is necessary to save them from extinction. Check the case of Siberian tigers. There are only around 100 of them out there in the wild. However, the captive population  number around 4,000. If not for the gene pool inputs from the captive population, the tigers might have died out long ago in the wild.

[Sausage]

There’s only 2 problems with bringing back the dinosaurs.
One, successfully assembling the genetic code (see the book The Lost World [AFTER reading the first one!!!]).
Two, they will never be free.
No matter how much I want a Jurassic Park, I say it shouldn’t happen. Why? Simply because keeping animals in captivity is wrong.

What about eating them?

Eating dinosaurs?

[jinjuro]

There’s only 2 problems with bringing back the dinosaurs.
One, successfully assembling the genetic code (see the book The Lost World [AFTER reading the first one!!!]).
Two, they will never be free.
No matter how much I want a Jurassic Park, I say it shouldn’t happen. Why? Simply because keeping animals in captivity is wrong.

What about eating them?

Most probably dinosaurs would taste like chicken. Because dinosaurs is chicken's ancestor

[hilariousandco]

There’s only 2 problems with bringing back the dinosaurs.
One, successfully assembling the genetic code (see the book The Lost World [AFTER reading the first one!!!]).
Two, they will never be free.
No matter how much I want a Jurassic Park, I say it shouldn’t happen. Why? Simply because keeping animals in captivity is wrong.

Jurrassic Park was actually a pretty good book from what I remember (even though I read it as a kid). I'll need to read the follow up.

There’s only 2 problems with bringing back the dinosaurs.
One, successfully assembling the genetic code (see the book The Lost World [AFTER reading the first one!!!]).
Two, they will never be free.
No matter how much I want a Jurassic Park, I say it shouldn’t happen. Why? Simply because keeping animals in captivity is wrong.

What about eating them?

Most probably dinosaurs would taste like chicken. Because dinosaurs is chicken's ancestor

Maybe he was making a comparison about it being wrong to keep animals in captivity but not to eat them?

[Sausage]

There’s only 2 problems with bringing back the dinosaurs.
One, successfully assembling the genetic code (see the book The Lost World [AFTER reading the first one!!!]).
Two, they will never be free.
No matter how much I want a Jurassic Park, I say it shouldn’t happen. Why? Simply because keeping animals in captivity is wrong.

What about eating them?

Most probably dinosaurs would taste like chicken. Because dinosaurs is chicken's ancestor

Everybody says meat they've never tried probably tastes like chicken lol.

[sana8410]

There’s only 2 problems with bringing back the dinosaurs.
One, successfully assembling the genetic code (see the book The Lost World [AFTER reading the first one!!!]).
Two, they will never be free.
No matter how much I want a Jurassic Park, I say it shouldn’t happen. Why? Simply because keeping animals in captivity is wrong.

What about eating them?

Most probably dinosaurs would taste like chicken. Because dinosaurs is chicken's ancestor

If dinosaurs really taste like chicken then we will farm them!Why to farm 1000 chicken when you can have 1 dino......hahaha

[Sausage]

There’s only 2 problems with bringing back the dinosaurs.
One, successfully assembling the genetic code (see the book The Lost World [AFTER reading the first one!!!]).
Two, they will never be free.
No matter how much I want a Jurassic Park, I say it shouldn’t happen. Why? Simply because keeping animals in captivity is wrong.

What about eating them?

Most probably dinosaurs would taste like chicken. Because dinosaurs is chicken's ancestor

If dinosaurs really taste like chicken then we will farm them!Why to farm 1000 chicken when you can have 1 dino......hahaha

Lol free range dinosaurs.

[hilariousandco]

There’s only 2 problems with bringing back the dinosaurs.
One, successfully assembling the genetic code (see the book The Lost World [AFTER reading the first one!!!]).
Two, they will never be free.
No matter how much I want a Jurassic Park, I say it shouldn’t happen. Why? Simply because keeping animals in captivity is wrong.

What about eating them?

Most probably dinosaurs would taste like chicken. Because dinosaurs is chicken's ancestor

If dinosaurs really taste like chicken then we will farm them!Why to farm 1000 chicken when you can have 1 dino......hahaha

Yeah, but they'd also need much more food, and I suspect farming them would be a pretty dangerous task .

[luckyluigi]

No matter how much I want a Jurassic Park, I say it shouldn’t happen. Why? Simply because keeping animals in captivity is wrong.

What load of BS? Sometimes, keeping animals in captivity is necessary to save them from extinction. Check the case of Siberian tigers. There are only around 100 of them out there in the wild. However, the captive population  number around 4,000. If not for the gene pool inputs from the captive population, the tigers might have died out long ago in the wild.

It's funny how some people think keeping animals in captivity in a zoo is wrong. Newsflash; wild animals die and suffer all the time. It's tough to be an animal in the wild. They don't have morals or a social security system, their life isn't some happy wild roam of dreams...

[hilariousandco]

No matter how much I want a Jurassic Park, I say it shouldn’t happen. Why? Simply because keeping animals in captivity is wrong.

What load of BS? Sometimes, keeping animals in captivity is necessary to save them from extinction. Check the case of Siberian tigers. There are only around 100 of them out there in the wild. However, the captive population  number around 4,000. If not for the gene pool inputs from the captive population, the tigers might have died out long ago in the wild.

It's funny how some people think keeping animals in captivity in a zoo is wrong. Newsflash; wild animals die and suffer all the time. It's tough to be an animal in the wild. They don't have morals or a social security system, their life isn't some happy wild roam of dreams...

It depends on what sort of captivity. Some animals would probably be extinct or very near so if we hadn't put some of them in captivity. Of course, the reason they're almost extinct is probably our own fault, but at least some people are trying to correct the mistakes we've made as a spaecies.

[bryant.coleman]

It depends on what sort of captivity. Some animals would probably be extinct or very near so if we hadn't put some of them in captivity. Of course, the reason they're almost extinct is probably our own fault, but at least some people are trying to correct the mistakes we've made as a spaecies.

Most of the times, but not always. Sometimes, natural catastrophes can also result in species extinction. The best example is that of the Miami blue butterfly, which became extinct after the Hurricane Andrew. Several species have become extinct as a result of historical volcanic eruptions.

Also check this:

http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/endangered_species/news/index.asp?article=turtlesandbeachmice

Hurricanes Hurting Endangered Species

Hurricanes Dennis and Katrina and two tropical storms have damaged the shrinking habitats of threatened and endangered species along the Gulf Coast. The two species most affected by the storms have been the Alabama beach mouse and sea turtles.

[yatsey87]

No matter how much I want a Jurassic Park, I say it shouldn’t happen. Why? Simply because keeping animals in captivity is wrong.

What load of BS? Sometimes, keeping animals in captivity is necessary to save them from extinction. Check the case of Siberian tigers. There are only around 100 of them out there in the wild. However, the captive population  number around 4,000. If not for the gene pool inputs from the captive population, the tigers might have died out long ago in the wild.

It's funny how some people think keeping animals in captivity in a zoo is wrong. Newsflash; wild animals die and suffer all the time. It's tough to be an animal in the wild. They don't have morals or a social security system, their life isn't some happy wild roam of dreams...

There's a difference between conservations and keeping animals in crappy poorly run zoos.