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Title: Is the Jurassic Park DNA theory possible?
Post by: ##RaCeR## on July 16, 2003, 02:33:28 AM: I find this kinda stuff really interesting, and after looking at this website http://www.cryptozoology.com/ (as featured in my other thread) its really got me thinking about dinosaurs and the like.

In Jurassic Park they talk about dino DNA found in mosquito\'s. Would it actually be scientifically possible to re-create them from DNA using a cloning process?

If so, then you would think they would be stocking up on rare animal DNA, so that if/when they become extinct, they can still create them.
Title: Is the Jurassic Park DNA theory possible?
Post by: Seed_Of_Evil on July 16, 2003, 03:17:47 AM: The problem is that never has been found a mosquito with blood to clon.
Title: Is the Jurassic Park DNA theory possible?
Post by: Unicron! on July 16, 2003, 04:29:03 AM: They ve succeded cloning monocyte organisms as a start.The multicellular organisms are the problem.A single cell cant multiply itself and develop a complete multicellular with different kinds of tissues, etc just like the way an embryo is made.If you remember well in Jurassic Park they had a fragment of dinosaur DNA so they used a frgament of a species with similar DNA to complete the dinoasaur DNA so that the multicellular organism can be developed.Mitosis I think that is called?
Two years in the army made me forget everything.
Title: Is the Jurassic Park DNA theory possible?
Post by: Green Meanie on July 16, 2003, 06:04:40 AM: There was talk of bringing back the wooly mammoth by using elephants. The problem is that once there is elephant DNA in there you can never get 100% mammoth, even breeding it out won\'t get it all.

Anyway, they had their chance and nature saw fit to destroy them, who do the scientists think they are, God?
Title: Is the Jurassic Park DNA theory possible?
Post by: Seed_Of_Evil on July 16, 2003, 06:06:07 AM: Science will never stop Green. Who knows. Perhaps in 50 years there are lot of zoos full of prehistoric creatures.
Title: Is the Jurassic Park DNA theory possible?
Post by: Darth Joyda on July 16, 2003, 06:18:51 AM: We are trying to out-smart Nature.
Title: Is the Jurassic Park DNA theory possible?
Post by: Green Meanie on July 16, 2003, 06:27:23 AM: It\'s just quite worrying, stem cell research, designer babies, a 16 year old with a fake penis being grown on his arm!

Science has gone mad, we should be doing useful stuff with these brains, like putting people into space rather than robots etc...
Title: Is the Jurassic Park DNA theory possible?
Post by: Seed_Of_Evil on July 16, 2003, 07:13:59 AM: I don\'t think science develops useless stuff. Everything can help us because there isn\'t better way to face the future.
Title: Is the Jurassic Park DNA theory possible?
Post by: Green Meanie on July 16, 2003, 07:19:31 AM: I think that there\'s a line that\'s being crossed on a regular basis.

How would you feel if you found out you only existed because you had a spare part that was needed?
Title: Is the Jurassic Park DNA theory possible?
Post by: CHIZZY on July 16, 2003, 08:49:22 AM: Have you heard about the being that scientists created that is basically a bag of spare organs with only enough of a brain to sustain the organs? So they argue that if it doesn\'t have a brain, then it cannot be self-aware, and therefore has no soul.

Her name is Hillary Clinton.

Ba-dum-ching!
Title: Is the Jurassic Park DNA theory possible?
Post by: Seed_Of_Evil on July 16, 2003, 09:08:02 AM: :laughing:
Title: Is the Jurassic Park DNA theory possible?
Post by: Bozco on July 16, 2003, 09:57:41 AM: When exactly do you think Dinosaurs existed, Racer, if the world is only 10,000 years old?
Title: Is the Jurassic Park DNA theory possible?
Post by: MPTheory on July 16, 2003, 10:49:17 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Bozco
When exactly do you think Dinosaurs existed, Racer, if the world is only 10,000 years old?

ummm... What?
Title: Is the Jurassic Park DNA theory possible?
Post by: Samwise on July 16, 2003, 10:52:40 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Bozco
When exactly do you think Dinosaurs existed, Racer, if the world is only 10,000 years old?

I think Jesus killed them. ;)
Title: Is the Jurassic Park DNA theory possible?
Post by: Seed_Of_Evil on July 16, 2003, 11:59:13 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Samwise
I think Jesus killed them. ;)

ahhh... I understand now why Jesus saved us... We should let Gibson know that Jesus killed them. A scene of matrix-fight style between Jesus and the Tyrannousaurus would rock.
Title: Is the Jurassic Park DNA theory possible?
Post by: Ryu on July 16, 2003, 12:07:52 PM: Actually, the DNA code for a dinosaur, like any multicellular animal, is incredibly complex and the movie covered the fact that in that code, since it\'s so old to begin with, there would be gaps in the sequencing thus cloning the dna would be pointless since it wouldn\'t even turn into a dinosaur. In the film, they used amphibian, frog, DNA to fit in the gaps (which also explained how the dinosaurs started breeding in the first place thanks to the frog\'s ability to spontaneously change sex in a single sex environment), but I highly doubt that is entirely possible.

If they could find a way to fill in the gaps, they\'d then have to find the DNA for the different types of dinosaurs. Finding one is a miracle, finding 20, that\'s something else.
Title: Is the Jurassic Park DNA theory possible?
Post by: Bozco on July 16, 2003, 12:16:32 PM: Quote
Originally posted by MPTheory
ummm... What?

I guess you missed racer in Samwise\'s thread.
Title: Is the Jurassic Park DNA theory possible?
Post by: square_marker on July 16, 2003, 02:08:57 PM: They should make a frog with a dinosaurs head.
Title: Is the Jurassic Park DNA theory possible?
Post by: ##RaCeR## on July 16, 2003, 03:59:31 PM: Dinosaurs were killed in the flood.
Title: Is the Jurassic Park DNA theory possible?
Post by: Bjorn on July 16, 2003, 10:04:46 PM: they were?
you have some facts to back up your statement? Otherwise that statement is worth nothing.
Anyone can state anything, but without facts and evidence it is worth nothing. And no, the harry potter books are not considered facts or edvidence.
Title: Is the Jurassic Park DNA theory possible?
Post by: SwifDi on July 17, 2003, 01:15:31 AM: Harry Potter told me to kill my parents.
Title: Is the Jurassic Park DNA theory possible?
Post by: CHIZZY on July 17, 2003, 04:32:05 AM: Have any of you heard David Cross\'s (mr. show) standup about
why he doesn\'t believe in god? It\'s pretty funny.

" so I\'m sitting in synagogue, listening to these stories and going,
\'angels with wings? talking snakes? C\'mon man, where\'s the f*ckin\' unicorns already?!?!"

I saw star wars when I was 4 and that story made as much sense and was as believable as anything they tried to force down my throat in nursery school. What was I supposed to do?
Just have faith? The faithful do crazy shit like strap bombs to themselves. A rational thinker who questions for himself rather than believes whatever their parents tell them would not blow themselves up.
Title: Is the Jurassic Park DNA theory possible?
Post by: MPTheory on July 17, 2003, 06:21:11 AM: why not. blowing yourself up is fun!
Title: Is the Jurassic Park DNA theory possible?
Post by: juslight on July 17, 2003, 09:38:54 AM: My dog has faith

http://content.funvids.net/Content/explode_dog.mpeg
Title: Is the Jurassic Park DNA theory possible?
Post by: MPTheory on July 17, 2003, 10:54:12 AM: haha... I told you to keep Dean\'s fireworks away from fluffy! :)