Australian Billionaire to attempt real life Jurassic Park.

Australian Billionaire,Clive Palmer, is apparantly in talks with the team who cloned Dolly the Sheep to create a theme park with cloned Dinosaurs.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2182751/Is-Australian-billionaire-launch-real-life-Jurassic-Park.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

What do you guys think of this? Personally I'm on the fence, if it happened I would want to go, but at the same time, we've all seen the Jurassic Park movies, and know what can happen if they manage to get loose.

There is no dinosaur DNA that we can use since it's been millions of years. How would he recreate dinosaurs without their DNA?

I can't imagine how expensive it would be not only to clone dinosaurs but also maintain them. He's gonna need a lot more than a billion dollars. Regardless, if i could go I would in a heart beat.hummer700

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[QUOTE="hummer700"]I can't imagine how expensive it would be not only to clone dinosaurs but also maintain them. He's gonna need a lot more than a billion dollars. Regardless, if i could go I would in a heart beat.Pirate700

Nature will find a way to feed them. And I would definately go.

hopefully he doesn't hire this guy to run his computer systems:

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[QUOTE="hummer700"]I can't imagine how expensive it would be not only to clone dinosaurs but also maintain them. He's gonna need a lot more than a billion dollars. Regardless, if i could go I would in a heart beat.LJChronx

Nature will find a way to feed them. And I would definately go.

Apparently we'll know on Friday if he does actually plan to do it, as there is going to be a large press conference to announce "something", and this is what it is rumored to be. So don't take it as fact until then, but I'm kinda excited, I remember seeing the first film in the Cinema when I was 4 or 5, and while I do remember been a bit scared when the T-Rex broke out, I also remember wishing it was real.

Also for cost, I'd imagine something like this would be able to get a lot of Government funding, but I would guess feeding costs wouldn't be that much more than a large Zoo, especially if they start small, also Herbivores would be cheap to feed as they could possibly eat the natural plantlife.

Sure why not. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?

Sure why not. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?

DJ-Lafleur

Hey, if the Jurassic Park movies taught us anything it's that Dinosaurs are useful for getting rid of annoying Lawyers.

hopefully he doesn't hire this guy to run his computer systems:

whipassmt

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Also for cost, I'd imagine something like this would be able to get a lot of Government funding, but I would guess feeding costs wouldn't be that much more than a large Zoo, especially if they start small, also Herbivores would be cheap to feed as they could possibly eat the natural plantlife.

spike6958

Even if he did manage to successfully clone a small population of dinos they would be probably be wiped out by pathogens they have no immunity to. (Unless he keeps them in a sealed environment)

And what would he grow them in? They're aren't any even remotely comparable animals for them to gestate in.

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[QUOTE="Pirate700"]Just think of the food costs. Just a few would probably cost like $1m per day to feed.

Pirate700

Nature will find a way to feed them. And I would definately go.

Even if he did manage to successfully clone a small population of dinos they would be probably be wiped out by pathogens they have no immunity to. (Unless he keeps them in a sealed environment)

And what would he grow them in? They're aren't any even remotely comparable animals for them to gestate in.

Boddicker

Yeah this just seems like it'd be a big money-wasting failure.

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[QUOTE="LJChronx"]

Nature will find a way to feed them. And I would definately go.

whipassmt

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hopefully he doesn't hire this guy to run his computer systems:

worlock77

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[QUOTE="whipassmt"]

hopefully he doesn't hire this guy to run his computer systems:

whipassmt

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Also for cost, I'd imagine something like this would be able to get a lot of Government funding, but I would guess feeding costs wouldn't be that much more than a large Zoo, especially if they start small, also Herbivores would be cheap to feed as they could possibly eat the natural plantlife.spike6958

Herbivores are often much larger than carnivores, and require many times greater quantities of food to sustain themselves. Some species of elephant, for example, eat 700 lbs of plant in a single day. Now imagine something like a brachiosaurus, which was many times larger than the largest elephant we have today.

[QUOTE="spike6958"]Also for cost, I'd imagine something like this would be able to get a lot of Government funding, but I would guess feeding costs wouldn't be that much more than a large Zoo, especially if they start small, also Herbivores would be cheap to feed as they could possibly eat the natural plantlife.worlock77

Herbivores are often much larger than carnivores, and require many times greater quantities of food to sustain themselves. Some species of elephant, for example, eat 700 lbs of plant in a single day. Now imagine something like a brachiosaurus, which was many times larger than the largest elephant we have today.

jurrasic park is frightening in the dark

all the dinosaurs are running wild

someone let t-rex out of his pen

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jurrasic park is frightening in the dark

all the dinosaurs are running wild

someone let t-rex out of his pen

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ionusX

Yea because the movies didn't show how bad of an idea that was or anything.

Clever girl.......

There is no dinosaur DNA that we can use since it's been millions of years. How would he recreate dinosaurs without their DNA?

Omni-Wrath

i wish i had that kind of money to just undergo business venture for the fvck of it

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jurrasic park is frightening in the dark

all the dinosaurs are running wild

someone let t-rex out of his pen

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juden41

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh4zvQfDhi0

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[QUOTE="LJChronx"]

Nature will find a way to feed them. And I would definately go.

whipassmt

And the Raptors were the ones eating the goat.

So this guy didn't learn anything from the movie (or even the book)? He may think he's in control but...

Life will find a way.

Imagine when they do break out and kill someone. To go down in history as the first person to die from a dinosaur wouldn't be the worse way to end.dragonball3900

I said this in the Japanese Gundam Wing thread and I'll say it here:

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[QUOTE="dragonball3900"]Imagine when they do break out and kill someone. To go down in history as the first person to die from a dinosaur wouldn't be the worse way to end.Inconsistancy

hopefully he doesn't hire this guy to run his computer systems:

whipassmt

That's the billionaire in question, and I refer to their similarities in competence rather than girth.

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[QUOTE="Pirate700"]What nature? Back then, Dinos would eat other Dinos so they were self sufficient. You'd have to give each one like an elephant a day to eat.

Inconsistancy

And the Raptors were the ones eating the goat.

Ooo nice

[QUOTE="hummer700"]I can't imagine how expensive it would be not only to clone dinosaurs but also maintain them. He's gonna need a lot more than a billion dollars. Regardless, if i could go I would in a heart beat.Pirate700

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[QUOTE="hummer700"]I can't imagine how expensive it would be not only to clone dinosaurs but also maintain them. He's gonna need a lot more than a billion dollars. Regardless, if i could go I would in a heart beat.iwilson1296

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[QUOTE="Pirate700"]Just think of the food costs. Just a few would probably cost like $1m per day to feed.

Pirate700

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[QUOTE="iwilson1296"]if he did succeed he would probably be making that money back in ticket sales and whatnot pretty quickly...i'm guessing.

mattbbpl

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[QUOTE="Pirate700"]Just think of the food costs. Just a few would probably cost like $1m per day to feed.

Pirate700

It's about damn time.

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hopefully he doesn't hire this guy to run his computer systems:

worlock77

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