Interesting discovery channel show

[YomMamasHouse]

We could engineer stegosaurus to become flavorful eating animals the way we turned aurochs into their loser descendants the cows.

[Skanky Butterpuss]

Originally Posted by Credge

I'd enjoy a big ol' stegosaurus. That'd be bitchin'. He'd be all like 'IM JUST GUNNA EAT SUM GRASS HYUK HYUK' and then he'd jump, do a flip, and land on his back to impale some people I don't enjoy.

While he eats his grass.

They did that back then you know.

ARMADON FTW

tbh i always liked talon the most, even though he had the gayest finishing move ever

holy shit, that post just resulted in an hour and a half long search and downloading spree in an attempt to get the unfinished version of Primal Rage 2 to work in MAME...

[BinaryLife]

You people are crazy!

Did any of you watch Jurassic Park?

Why can't scientists use science fiction as the warning it's intended to be.

[Everything]

[Mooga]

OMG I did catch some of that several nights ago.
It was actually quite scary!

[greenday5494]

i dont think this is real. why would just discovery channel have it, and not be on CNN or something important. sounds like a show to get more viewers

[YomMamasHouse]

News outlets have more important things to talk about like how many people were gunned down in urban areas or which celebrity has talked shit about another. The fact that news outlets haven't talked about it means nothing.

[puppychow]

still dont understand how this can be a secularism vs spirituality tpe of thing. god created dinosaurs cuz they were fun to play with...i mean, wouldn't you??

[MightyLotu]

what.. this is early 90's stuff

Originally Posted by BinaryLife

Did any of you watch Jurassic Park?

edit: but yeah, being able to turn back the process would be cool.. though it would take about a million years to get a dino again

[YomMamasHouse]

It wouldn't take that long as all the dinosaur genes are still there, all they would have to do is get the right combination of genes to be expressed and they could have on in a single generation or so.

[Innoc]

You see modification of other species genetics in the more simple plant kingdom so I think it's definitely possible to create some form of animal hybrid. I still think the potential for something bad with this sort of thing crops up under the law of unintended consequences though.

[puppychow]

yeah, watch gremlins.

[YomMamasHouse]

I'd mostly be worried about those assholes with tough-guy dogs upgrading to pet dinosaurs. That way when the dinosaur rips your throat out they can tell your family it just wanted to smell you.

[uBeR]

I didn't watch to show, but I'm curious how they knew they were "dinosaur genes."

[YomMamasHouse]

I think it was partly because they caused the embryos to display phenotypes identical to those of dinosaurs.

[BinaryLife]

Originally Posted by Innoc

You see modification of other species genetics in the more simple plant kingdom so I think it's definitely possible to create some form of animal hybrid. I still think the potential for something bad with this sort of thing crops up under the law of unintended consequences though.

You mean like, "Nature finds a way?"

[YomMamasHouse]

Bad things have the potential to happen when you give citizens guns, let people use computers with internet access, let students use toxic chemicals in science class....etc but we still manage to go about life without huge problems from stuff like that. I suspect that the same factors that keep the previously mentioned things from going wrong will keep this type of science in check.

[Innoc]

Originally Posted by BinaryLife

You mean like, "Nature finds a way?"

More like with hybridization of a species allowing creation of a new supervirus as it interacts with the bybrids body. Far-fetched? Perhaps. But think of how many times new discoveries have been "rushed into" and we find out much later how bad it was. Look at overuse of antibiotics...look at when radium was used to illuminate the dials of watches...look at the use of Thalidomide. Disparate examples of things that were entered into with bad results.

Is something like what happened in the work of Fiction "I Am Legend" possible? A world killer virus?

[greenday5494]

Originally Posted by Innoc

You see modification of other species genetics in the more simple plant kingdom so I think it's definitely possible to create some form of animal hybrid. I still think the potential for something bad with this sort of thing crops up under the law of unforseen consequences though.

fix'd

[zSilver_Fox]

Originally Posted by greenday5494

i dont think this is real. why would just discovery channel have it, and not be on CNN or something important. sounds like a show to get more viewers

To quote one great scientist on this:

"We scientests SUCK at getting information out to the public." You'd be surprised at how many transitional fossils we've found that support evolution.