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How did Jurassic park have adult brachiosauruses? (Original Post) Recursion Jun 2016 OP
It's make believe. GeorgeGist Jun 2016 #1
they cloned an adult? NewJeffCT Jun 2016 #2
Clones of adults are still born as babies and have to develop (nt) Recursion Jun 2016 #3
It's called willful suspension of disbelief... Wounded Bear Jun 2016 #4
Growth-acceleration technology jmowreader Jun 2016 #5
Steroids. rug Jun 2016 #6
They made them watch & rewatch reruns of Full House & Family Matters. baldguy Jun 2016 #7
They carded them at the door. kwassa Jun 2016 #8
Locking Kaleva Jun 2016 #9
Whereas my question has always been: kentauros Jun 2016 #10
It's THEIR movie, they can do anything they want with it. lastlib Jun 2016 #11
They were just big boned, ok? Orrex Jun 2016 #12

jmowreader

(50,447 posts)
5. Growth-acceleration technology
Fri Jun 10, 2016, 07:29 PM
Jun 2016

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.

lastlib

(22,978 posts)
11. It's THEIR movie, they can do anything they want with it.
Sun Jun 12, 2016, 08:22 AM
Jun 2016

You just pays your money and takes your chances...

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