Thread: Dinosaurs and Cloning

Originally Posted by Akono

it would be a waste of research, money, and recourses in my opinion. recreating the plants would actually have possible medical uses, but the other stuff, I really don't see the need for it. Entertainment, or otherwise.

I said forget about the money.
Yes it would be novelty. But also would teach us a lot that we don't know. Which is really the whole fundamental point of science, to learn more stuff.

Originally Posted by cygnus

(i'm not trying to insult you, tommo - you're one of my favorite members here...but..)

i fucking laughed, tommo. i liked these parts:




holy fucking crap.

you trippin, son. ^_____^

Haha, yeh well. I get a little obsessed sometimes lol
But I was just putting forward some ideas lol

Originally Posted by CanceledCzech

Jesus fucking Christ! XD

You are trippin'!

Though, I'm down with you on the 'cloning-a-one-or-two-specimens'. When I was like, 3-4, I was one of those kids who loved dinosaurs. And even now, whenever the mood strikes me, I'll ponder what it must have been like back then. Any time before I was born fascinates me. The farther back, the more interesting, to be honest. So yeah I'd love to 'grow my own' T-Rex, and then as soon as it starts to get big, just take it out back and end it with an elephant gun.

Lol now THAT is mean. Still, understandable I spose. Or you could genetically modify it to stay small.

Originally Posted by CanceledCzech

Edit: AHAHAHA "Last edited by cygnus : Today at 08:18 PM."

I am so glad I caught that post before the edit. Such small modifications... surprising how much they change the feel of the original post.

Damn, I wanna see the original post now lol

Originally Posted by cygnus

the idea of cloning a living thing because it would be a novelty is pretty disgusting to me. we've infected nature enough with our presence.

Hmm, maybe true. But it would be AMAZING! Just imagine what the dinosaur would think. So far we haven't cloned any thing that has died. And if we're not talking about cloning as in growing it in a chamber, but just recreating the dinosaur a few....
okay, say the dinosaur died of a heart attack. We clone it how it was right as it was dying, then shock it back to life. Wtf would it be thinking? Like everything's suddenly changed and it suddenly back alive.

If we're talking about normal cloning like we do it now, it would still be interesting to see how it would act and to learn about dinosaurs more. Since there's proof birds came from dinosaurs, would they be the same as birds in the way that the first thing they see they think is it's mother?

You could have a Velociraptor side kick to protect you lol.

The thing is with most invention that will come soon like nano tech etc. is it would be cool if you were the only person that had that technology. When everyone has it it's useless. Like if you had nanotech now you could be the most powerful person ever, but if everyone has it you're fucked.
Same with the cloning for personal protection thing I spose.

Anyway, getting off point but yeah maybe we have infected nature too much, but would it be that bad to bring dinosaurs back to life? If we kept them in only one area, whether it's an island or a whole country. I'm some country is going to get wiped out by nukes soon, may as well use it.

But yeah it isn't just pure novelty, we could learn a lot.

Originally Posted by cygnus

this would be just another case of scientists doing dumb shit just because they can (and will probably receive grants while they're at it). humans have a history of not thinking about the consequences of their creations.

Yeah but.... Baby T-Rex!!!!

And even if, say, dinosaurs take over, that means humans can no longer fuck anything up. We'd basically be resetting the world back millions of years!

Hmmmm.... maybe this has happened before....

^

I would love to have a Raptorex as a guardosaur lol. Imagine people trespassing on your property, send a pack of 5 to 6 feet tall mini raptors at them.

Haha! Yeah that's the spirit!

Got a few billion to get the project started?

I have thought about this a million and a half times as well. Knowing how intelligent dinosaurs were, how they interacted with one antoher, etc would be so amazing. There are many unanswered questions about dinosaurs still.

Yeah, and imagine the plants that would have been around. Probably could jump on the leaves and go inside the flowers!

I dunno, it's something about nature not fucked up by humans which makes me wish to go back to that time. Just to visit lol

Originally Posted by tommo

I said forget about the money.
okay, say the dinosaur died of a heart attack. We clone it how it was right as it was dying, then shock it back to life. Wtf would it be thinking? Like everything's suddenly changed and it suddenly back alive.

I just wanted to make one of my random negative points that this isn't really how cloning works. If you clone something, it has to grow and be born again from an egg; it doesn't magically appear.

EDIT: WAIT HOLY CRAP YOU'RE IN MELBOURNE NOBODY IS IN MELBOURNE

Man, Tommo, I'd love to live in your world for just 10 minutes. You seem like you have a really good time.

Originally Posted by lseadragon

I just wanted to make one of my random negative points that this isn't really how cloning works. If you clone something, it has to grow and be born again from an egg; it doesn't magically appear.

EDIT: WAIT HOLY CRAP YOU'RE IN MELBOURNE NOBODY IS IN MELBOURNE

Yeah I know that's how it works now. But maybe some day we can just basically build it up cell by cell.

Haha yeh I know, it's lonely here.

Originally Posted by ExoByte

Man, Tommo, I'd love to live in your world for just 10 minutes. You seem like you have a really good time.

Lol, are you serious?
Thanks I guess haha

Originally Posted by tommo

Yeah I know that's how it works now. But maybe some day we can just basically build it up cell by cell.

And how would you know what an animal was thinking as it died... in other words, how would you know it's brain structure?

I hope the scientist who does this abomination gets torn to pieces by their own messed up creation.

Originally Posted by guerilla

I hope the scientist who does this abomination gets torn to pieces by their own messed up creation.

I don't care about the scientist. I just hope Jeff Goldblum gets it this time.