Aussie Tycoon Wants to Clone Dinosaurs for His Real Life, Resort-Based Jurassic Park - Polidicks

[quote] In other billionaire news today, a controversial and ostentatious Australian is supposedly planning a real-life Jurassic Park, complete with cloned dinosaurs. Clive Palmer, who also wants to build a modern-day Titanic replica, has held talks with the scientists who cloned Dolly the sheep, reports Australia’s Sunshine Coast Daily. Palmer, a mining magnate, owns a luxury resort on the Sunshine Coast, in southern Queensland on Australia’s Pacific side. He would put the dinosaurs in his new resort there, the Daily reports. There are no named sources in the article about this effort, however, with the newspaper citing someone “close to Palmer’s inner circle.” Other plans for the resort apparently call for a sky needle and a mega Ferris wheel like the London Eye, and a focus on clientele from the Middle East. But the cloned-dino idea is obviously the most eyebrow-raising. Palmer would not answer questions about it and is holding a press conference on Friday, so we’ll see what he says then. Palmer said earlier this year that he wanted to build a “Titanic II,” as close a replica as possible to the fated ship but with modern technology. If all goes as he plans, the vessel would sail from London to New York in 2016, according to the BBC. Palmer would not be the first to discuss cloning dinosaurs. The book and movie “Jurassic Park” certainly popularized the idea, but scientists really are trying to resurrect extinct animals. Researchers in Russia, Korea and Japan say they’re planning to bring mammoths back by injecting their DNA into elephants. (This idea is controversial and doubted by many, to say the least.) There’s not enough dino DNA to do this, but the paleontologist Jack Horner is famously trying to genetically engineer their descendants — birds — to have more dinosaur-like qualities. Perhaps a future Australian seaside resort will play host to flocks of Chickenosaurus, which you can view through self-driving Land Rovers.[/quote] [url]http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-08/aussie-tycoon-wants-clone-dinosaurs-real-life-resort-based-jurassic-park[/url] Yes please. I will not mind sucking his cock for this to come true

When you really sit down to think about it, Jurassic Park is actually really boring. You sit in a car, or on a boat and hope that there are some dinosaurs close to you to see. Didn't see any? Too bad. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otptS-eOXvI[/media]

If I may... Um, I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that he'd need to use here, it wouldn't require any discipline to attain it. He'd read what others had done and he'd take the next step. He didn't earn the knowledge for himself, so he doesn't take any responsibility for it. He'd stand on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as he could, and before he even knows what he has, he patents it, and packages it, and slaps it on a plastic lunchbox, and now he's selling it, he wants to sell it.

[QUOTE=MIPS;37051904]When you really sit down to think about it, Jurassic Park is actually really boring. You sit in a car, or on a boat and hope that there are some dinosaurs close to you to see. Didn't see any? Too bad. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otptS-eOXvI[/media][/QUOTE] Yeah but if dinosaurs were cloned we'd have some awesome Planet Earth type documentaries

[QUOTE=MIPS;37051904]When you really sit down to think about it, Jurassic Park is actually really boring. You sit in a car, or on a boat and hope that there are some dinosaurs close to you to see. Didn't see any? Too bad. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otptS-eOXvI[/media][/QUOTE] I would fucking kill to see Dinosaurs.

[QUOTE=Jetblack357;37052303]I would fucking kill to see Dinosaurs.[/QUOTE] Damn right. Giant reptiles that went extinct roughly 65.5 million years ago? COUNT ME IN. [b]Edit:[/b] Infact, if it works, why not send the cast and crew of jurrasic park there, as the first visitors? What could go wrong?

[QUOTE=Chicken_Chaser;37052161]Yeah but if dinosaurs were cloned we'd have some awesome Planet Earth type documentaries[/QUOTE] Watching documentaries high just got even more awesome.

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It's not dinosaurs, they're gonna take chickens and reactivate old genetic material so they produce arms, snouts with teeth, scales, etc. Still cool. Kinda.

[QUOTE=DudeGuyKT;37051974]If I may... Um, I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that he'd need to use here, it wouldn't require any discipline to attain it. He'd read what others had done and he'd take the next step. He didn't earn the knowledge for himself, so he doesn't take any responsibility for it. He'd stand on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as he could, and before he even knows what he has, he patents it, and packages it, and slaps it on a plastic lunchbox, and now he's selling it, he wants to sell it.[/QUOTE] Well, SOMEONE has a deplorable excess of personality, especially for a mathematician. Wait, sorry, [I]Chao[/I]titian.

[QUOTE=purvisdavid1;37052414]It's not dinosaurs, they're gonna take chickens and reactivate old genetic material so they produce arms, snouts with teeth, scales, etc. Still cool. Kinda.[/QUOTE] As long as they don't fill the gaps with modern day frog DNA, then they'll be able to start breeding again.

I always thought that dinosaurs were adapted to breath the atmosphere of 65 million years ago and that they would just suffocate in the atmosphere of today due to it have the wrong components or something. But I may be utterly wrong, it's just something I've heard from somewhere I can't even remember.

I'd rather they have it be more of a Site-B sort of situation, where it's a natural and open space for them to roam about, closed off from the inside world.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkWeMvrNiOM[/media] life finds a way, obviously this tycoon is merely a fan of the movie's dinosaur and not what the film is tryna say. As cool as dinosaurs are, they were the dominant species 65 million years ago, and they were much larger than todays dominant species - us, the only reason we dominate is how big our brains are, dinosaur have big teeth, they win that fight 9 times out of 10.

[QUOTE=shozamar;37052479]I always thought that dinosaurs were adapted to breath the atmosphere of 65 million years ago and that they would just suffocate in the atmosphere of today due to it have the wrong components or something. But I may be utterly wrong, it's just something I've from somewhere I can't even remember.[/QUOTE] The only thing different between now and then was then there was a lot more CO2 in the atmosphere, according to paleontologist studies on fossilized ferns, they noticed that the ferns of then had twice-three times the amount of CO2 pores in the leaves compared to modern, ancestrally related ferns. This is honestly the only difference I can think of.

[QUOTE=geoface;37052526][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkWeMvrNiOM[/media] life finds a way, obviously this tycoon is merely a fan of the movie's dinosaur and not what the film is tryna say. As cool as dinosaurs are, they were the dominant species 65 million years ago, and they were much larger than todays dominant species - us, the only reason we dominate is how big our brains are, dinosaur have big teeth, they win that fight 9 times out of 10.[/QUOTE] They weren't just the dominant species 65 million years ago, they ruled the planet for almost 220 million years. Humanity is just a smudge compared to the massive reign of the Dinosaurs.

[QUOTE=shozamar;37052479]I always thought that dinosaurs were adapted to breath the atmosphere of 65 million years ago and that they would just suffocate in the atmosphere of today due to it have the wrong components or something. But I may be utterly wrong, it's just something I've heard from somewhere I can't even remember.[/QUOTE] If I remember correctly at some point the atmosphere back then was super oxygen rich. As a downside you literally had bugs the size of a car, existing purely so their remains could become liquid nightmare fuel. [editline]2nd August 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Zillamaster55;37052552]They weren't just the dominant species 65 million years ago, they ruled the planet for almost 220 million years. Humanity is just a smudge compared to the massive reign of the Dinosaurs.[/QUOTE] Yeah but at least we can use our arms right? :smugdog::pipe:

They would probably be a lot smaller though, Tyrannosaurus in today's climate and atmosphere could only reach 2-3 tons, compared to the 8 that it could have grown to. Also, if he wants a T.Rex, he better have food. IIRC, the food-Tyrannosaurus ratio was 45 Herbivores to one Rex.

[QUOTE=MIPS;37051904]When you really sit down to think about it, Jurassic Park is actually really boring. You sit in a car, or on a boat and hope that there are some dinosaurs close to you to see. Didn't see any? Too bad. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otptS-eOXvI[/media][/QUOTE] Are you retarded? DINOSAURS. They were alive 65 MILLION YEARS AGO, it would be AMAZING to see them. God damn.

[QUOTE=Pierrewithahat;37052555] Yeah but at least we can use our arms right? :smugdog::pipe:[/QUOTE] [img]http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/files/2011/10/Carnotaurus.jpg[/img] [B]Fear the might of Carnotaurus[/B]

[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;37052569]They would probably be a lot smaller though, Tyrannosaurus in today's climate and atmosphere could only reach 2-3 tons, compared to the 8 that it could have grown to. Also, if he wants a T.Rex, he better have food. IIRC, the food-Tyrannosaurus ratio was 45 Herbivores to one Rex.[/QUOTE] It's fine, just throw it behind an electric fence and throw in a cow every now and again.

And mainly cretaceous dinosaurs wouldn't be as interesting, due to the fact that the variety and diversity of the Jurassic species disappeared. [editline]2nd August 2012[/editline] I think it was 300 pounds of food a day for a growing adolescent Tyrannosaurus, I'll have to check my book again.

[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;37052582][img]http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/files/2011/10/Carnotaurus.jpg[/img] [B]Fear the might of Carnotaurus[/B][/QUOTE] [img]http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p23/i_Love_munsters122/bighead.gif[/img]

That would be so awesome; I would totally pay to see that.

Australia seems like the perfect place to have dinosaurs.

[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;37052837]Australia seems like the perfect place to have dinosaurs.[/QUOTE] It's pretty much already at maximum deadliness anyway

[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;37052552]They weren't just the dominant species 65 million years ago, they ruled the planet for almost 220 million years. Humanity is just a smudge compared to the massive reign of the Dinosaurs.[/QUOTE] well 65 million years ago is the last time they were dominant

Don't get excited. Clive Palmer is a fucking idiot. The fact that he even managed to hold conversation with the scientists who cloned Dolly is both incredible and embarrassing. The only equivalent I can think of is George Bush. He somehow had the cunning to make it big but must be almost entirely reliant on advisors because he is just so ridiculously unfit to be that powerful.

All we need now is Wayne Knight and a hollowed out can of shaving cream

So long as things don't go too wrong, as in we don't get super-intelligent raptors eating us alive, then this should probably work out somewhat alright. Even then, Jeff Goldblum would probably stall the raptors with some dialogue.