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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsHow did Jurassic park have adult brachiosauruses?
Those things took 30 years to mature.
GeorgeGist
(25,294 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,827 posts)maybe?
Recursion
(56,582 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,436 posts)jmowreader
(50,447 posts)Hammond's team knew baby dinosaurs weren't going to do them much good. Imagine the newspaper reviews: "I went to Jurassic Park, John Hammond's $225 million theme park featuring dinosaurs brought back from extinction, to see T.rex - the mightiest predator to ever walk the earth - in the flesh. It was the size of a pit bull." They HAD to have full-grown dinosaurs. They also needed dinosaurs that died quickly, just to keep his scientists from getting bored through lack of work and walking out the door...with heads full of knowledge on how to clone things. And they were stretching things a little for dramatic effect - velociraptors weren't that big, dilophosaurs weren't venomous...
We know both Michael Crichton and the Jurassic screenwriters left out a few things (like why you would engineer your animals so a lysine deficiency would kill them, rely on this "lysine contingency" as a safety measure against the animals becoming uncontrollable, and then plant lysine-rich crops on the island they live on) so let's fill it in: Using either drugs, special foods or high-tech machinery a dinosaur could be taken from newborn size to full-grown in just a few months. The same technology would shorten their lives dramatically - three or four years at the most.
rug
(82,333 posts)baldguy
(36,649 posts)Would age anyone 30 yrs.
kwassa
(23,340 posts)Kaleva
(36,145 posts)Please repost in the Science group.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)"Why is Jurassic Plotless so popular?!"
lastlib
(22,978 posts)You just pays your money and takes your chances...