I don't really see what the harm is. And it would be interesting to see how dinosaurs really worked.
I think it's also worth pointing out that many geologists belive that Earth's atmosphere had far more oxygen than our modern atmosphere. It's possible that a cloned dinosaur would just choke when taken out of a controlled enviroment.
An even greater difficulty is disease. Dinosaurs were adapted to the bacteria and viruses of millions of years ago. Those disease-carrying microbes have been evolving for millenia, and the dinosaurs will have no immunity to them. Look at Native Americans and smallpox; it would be the same deal, but far more extreme.
Myrin wrote:O.0 Raptors still exist today in theory. It's thought that they have changed to ostriches or however that's spelled. Those birds who hide their heads in holes.
A. Velociraptors and utahraptors are not raptors. They are named after raptors because their skeletons bear a slight resemblence to raptors--actual raptors being the family that most large predatory birds belong to (eagles, hawks, vultures, et cetera)
B. Even if velocipators and utahraptors evolved into ostriches, then ostriches are now a completely different species and no longer raptors anyway.
Myrin wrote:I honestly think it will get out of hand. People can't control everything. We can barely control ourselves. To attempt to cage a wild animal is a laugh.
First: I honestly don't think it will ever happen. There is not enough intact DNA. Second: people cage wild animals (and each other) all the time.
Azuriel wrote:Of course it would get out of hand. All new things do.
Nuclear weapons. They were used once. Then everybody realized how dangerous they were, and no one has used them since. If we can control the power to incinerate cities, then we can control some big stupid animals that probably won't live very long anyway (clones rarely do).
Cloaked_Schemer wrote:I personally think that's a bad idea. Do they actually think they could control these monstrous creatures? If so, they're out of their fecking minds.
However, it would be interesting if we could train them for warfare purposes. We'd rape everybody =3
If you have a gun, you can kill a dinosaur. It's also unlikely that they could be trained to differentiate between friend and foe. A dinosaur would be no more usefull on the battlefield than a big wolf.
albel cigaro wrote:Now this gives some wired ideas about how cloned raptors would eventually be used in other kinds of gentics experiments. At best this could a end up with the planet earth being inhabited by velicoraptors/human hybirds that would coexist with us.
at worse for the human race we would just be horiblly slaughted as soon as the velicpators adapt or perhaps even go though a complete evolvution to match their new enviroment. I personaly want to raise a baby cloned raptor so that i may potentially be accepted as part of their pack.
First: There's not a snowball's chance in Hell that a velociraptor and a human could produce a viable offspring. Second: what makes you think a velociraptor is more adaptable than a human? They're extinct, after all, and we're without doubt the most adaptable vertebrates of the modern era.
Azuriel wrote:Raptors are beast. and smarter than us. In some ways.
What (besides
Jurrasic Park) makes you think velociraptors were smarter than us? They had larger brains than us, yes, but so do whales. That extra brain capacity could've been used to stay concious while sleeping or something stupid like that, for all we know. Besides, we have technology and they didn't.
So we'd have to get that figured out before raising raptors to go eat South America-I mean-to be loyal seeing eye dinos for blind kids. That would be sweet.
