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Cloning dinosaurs; BUM BUM BUM BA JURRASIC PARK!!!
Topic Started: Jan 2 2007, 06:14 AM (1,562 Views)
Gopher_dude
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Is it anyway possible to clone dinosaurs? Like at all? In any-way shape or form?

I ask this because if the climate is changing and getting warmer I think dinosaurs could be a profitable investment..fun too.
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assuming they could find any usable samples to work with... not likely
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Jurassic Park was pretty smart for how dumb it looks.

The basic idea was to take dinosaur blood from those flies that are preserved in amber, and then use that as a basis for cloning the dinosaur.

Now all we need is to learn how to clone something from just a blood sample.
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I'll have to say maybe to this one.
Today we have no chance, however I don't know enough about the nature of cloning or DNA to be sure either way.

However I do feel the entire process would be rather fruitless.
What do we stand to gain by cloning a dinosaur?

Well you can say we can learn about how they lived and so on but in the end this is just a lot of bull.
You can't clone memories. As a result the knowledge of the dinosaurs has been lost forever, if we clone one we won't be able to use it to learn things like behaviours because these are learned, usually from the parents or other society members, both of which fail to exist today.

The cloned dinosaur will act just as we have told it to. If it was capable of replicating our speech it would very well do so, luckily for us it can't really do this but you still get the idea. Similarly it will be tame, and probably human reliant, generally because we are effectively unable to teach this thing thing to hunt or fend for itself.
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Jan 2 2007, 09:19 AM
Now all we need is to learn how to clone something from just a blood sample.

And that's something we'll never do. Assuming the DNA from white blood cells is too damaged too work with, that leaves us with red blood cells. And as those are haploid, we'll never be capable of cloning a dinosaur from a blood sample. Your best bet would be a fossil, but that still gives an extremely low chance in spite of the damaged DNA.

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Jan 2 2007, 10:12 AM
You can't clone memories. As a result the knowledge of the dinosaurs has been lost forever, if we clone one we won't be able to use it to learn things like behaviours because these are learned, usually from the parents or other society members, both of which fail to exist today.

ALL living beings have genetic memories; insticts. Recently Discovery Channel did a special called 'In the Womb', talking about how animals learn a lot of things before ever even being born, such as a dog learning to pant.

And; 'other society members' ? Just what does that mean?


As for the cloning of dinosaurs? Never =D The lack of DNA has already been brought up; you also need an egg cell that could accept the DNA. Plus all that work separating dinosaur and misquito DNA.
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I think someday it could happen, but I an not an expert on the matter. I don't really think there has to be much of a reason to clone a dinosaur besides the lulz.
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It would never work. Dinosaurs lived in a whole different era than us so they would instantly die from all our new diseases and wouldn’t be able to eat our food. Finding the correct environment for them would be the hardest part, if not impossible.
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Jan 2 2007, 07:09 PM
It would never work. Dinosaurs lived in a whole different era than us so they would instantly die from all our new diseases and wouldn’t be able to eat our food. Finding the correct environment for them would be the hardest part, if not impossible.

Which means we've disproven Jurassic Park in all of its points.

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FallenDeku
Jan 2 2007, 05:12 AM
If it was capable of replicating our speech it would very well do so, luckily for us it can't really do this but you still get the idea.

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That would be absolutely hilarious.
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Cloning dinosaurs is a bad idea. Even if you just want to do it just to look at them Just imagine if one escapes a local zoo and goes on a rampage in New York City.
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piercehawkeye45
Jan 2 2007, 06:09 PM
It would never work. Dinosaurs lived in a whole different era than us so they would instantly die from all our new diseases and wouldn’t be able to eat our food. Finding the correct environment for them would be the hardest part, if not impossible.

BUT....With genome mapping, could we not turn on and off their immuno weaknesses to any and all diseases? I.e. Super Dino-Immuno-todo-Saurus?

It makes sense...doesn't it people?
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Jan 2 2007, 04:26 PM
Cloning dinosaurs is a bad idea. Even if you just want to do it just to look at them Just imagine if one escapes a local zoo and goes on a rampage in New York City.

What if you could digitally clone it and get an image of them?
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Not impossible, but hard to do
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Jan 2 2007, 03:26 PM
Cloning dinosaurs is a bad idea. Even if you just want to do it just to look at them Just imagine if one escapes a local zoo and goes on a rampage in New York City.

If we cloned a dinosaur we would make sure that didn't happen.
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