by The Kingpin » Fri Feb 01, 2008 12:07 pm
i don't think they'll do it, honestly. let's take the Rex as a base example here. we don't know how it'll act. for all we know, it may act like Great Whites do in captivity. not eat. starve themselves to death. and, on the opposite end of the spectrum, it might go nuts and slaughter anything in it's way. what are they gonna do? attempt to sedate it? sure, but what if the sedatives we have have unusual side effects on the Rex due to, for example, gaps in it's genetics, or maybe the absence of a certain hormone or something. it could die from potential side effects. what else...kill it? sure. Elephant gun, maybe. or perhaps for the really heavy duty stuff if they want to stop it in it's tracks. give it a rocket to the face [yeah, crazy. going into the gaming world again. but let's just say an elephant gun can't drop it fast enough]. if it came to it, they'll have lost a multi million dollar clone AS WELL AS the expenses spent on actually forming an environment for it to be put in...simply speaking, there's a VERY small chance that they'll be successful if they clone it. environment isn't right, they'll need suitable containment [good luck figuring out what's best for it and us with a creature that's been dead for 65,000,000 years, several times more than the time WE have been on this planet!], they'll need to sort out a food source that's appropriate [with JP they had this lycine thing [or whatever it's called]. in reality, maybe there's a certain kind of nutrient, hormone or something that can't be found in modern day animals that the predator would need to survive], they'll need to have suitable precautions, as well as a habitat it would be comfortable with. if they EVER decide to clone Dinos successfully, they'll need to make a whole food chain from the ground up. plants, herbivores, predators. then there's the case of each herbivore's preffered plant, the plants' preffered soil, the predators' favoured prey..etc. they'd take AGES just to sort things out. i don't think they'd be able to just go BAM! T.REX! OMG WE GOTZ T.REX! LOLZ! unless they did the rest of it first, it'd drop dead within weeks, days or even HOURS of being made. think of it. this is hundreds of millions of years of evolution we're talking about here. the chances that cloning will be able to successfully recreate what took that long to evolve, is unlikely. they have the benefit of a doubt though. MAYBE, just MAYBE, they have solutions for all those things planned, IF they're even crazy enough to dump that much money into the process. but i seriously doubt it...
look how much it takes to keep an IGUANA alive an happy. Terrianium, proper food, propper bedding for the terranium, organised, periodic changes in diet, constant, warm tempreture, lighting, humidity...etc. and what is it we're talking about here? an IGUANA. imagine what a 45 foot long, 16 foot tall, 6 ton carnivorous predator that could eat a man whole, and probably had a several hundred kilometer wide territory would need!
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The Kingpin on Fri Feb 01, 2008 12:23 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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