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Title: Scientists find T-REX FLESH!
Post by: Carl on March 24, 2005, 05:48:46 pm
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050324/ap_on_sc/t_rex_tissues

 :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
Title: Scientists find T-REX FLESH!
Post by: Grey Wolf on March 24, 2005, 05:54:15 pm
Quite interesting. I wonder if they'll be able to determine if they were endothermic...
Title: Scientists find T-REX FLESH!
Post by: MatthewPapa on March 24, 2005, 05:54:16 pm
Now let us clone some T-rex and feed them cows!
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Post by: Taristin on March 24, 2005, 06:11:44 pm
Dude! Totally!
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Post by: Carl on March 24, 2005, 06:12:24 pm
oh yes, cloning them would be a great idea. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107290/)
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Post by: Taristin on March 24, 2005, 06:17:16 pm
Ahh, but those movies were flawed, they never introduced the nuke-bomb to the area. :p
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Post by: Sandwich on March 24, 2005, 06:20:11 pm
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Originally posted by Carl
oh yes, cloning them would be a great idea. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107290/)


7.4 out of 10 - not too bad, I'd say. ;)
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Post by: Flipside on March 24, 2005, 06:38:03 pm
But the outcome of that would be, like, Godzilla * 1000!!1!11! :nervous:
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Post by: MicroPsycho on March 24, 2005, 07:06:55 pm
Jurassic Park was a good movie. It's sequels were utter **** but Jurassic Park was quite a good movie.
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Post by: Ford Prefect on March 24, 2005, 07:08:48 pm
It was entertaining but I don't really agree with the "don't mess with nature" message.
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Post by: karajorma on March 24, 2005, 08:08:13 pm
What would you expect from a luddite like Crichton? All his books are about how tecnology is bad.
Title: Scientists find T-REX FLESH!
Post by: NGTM-1R on March 24, 2005, 08:09:16 pm
I kinda hoped the raptors would try and attack the Marines in the end of 3. Just to prove that the problem was a lack of modern automatic weaponry in the previous movies.

Back on topic, I hear the soft tissue looks like an ostrich's.
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Post by: Rictor on March 24, 2005, 10:53:14 pm
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Originally posted by karajorma
What would you expect from a luddite like Crichton? All his books are about how tecnology is bad.


I wouldn't exactly call it technology in the sense we know it, I mean we are talking about timetravel and cloning dinasaurs here, not WiFi. Plus, they have to be disastrous, otherwise there would be no plotline.
Title: Scientists find T-REX FLESH!
Post by: Taristin on March 24, 2005, 11:03:08 pm
Heh, cloning a T-Rex...


And you lot thought Horses were well endowed :p
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Post by: Liberator on March 24, 2005, 11:05:27 pm
Umm, dude?  They're not built like that...:blah:
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Post by: Taristin on March 24, 2005, 11:13:38 pm
Oh? You've seen a real TRex before, have you?  :p
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Post by: übermetroid on March 24, 2005, 11:51:47 pm
cool.  I would want to go to that zoo!
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Post by: Rictor on March 25, 2005, 12:19:34 am
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Originally posted by übermetroid
cool.  I would want to go to that zoo!


:wtf: :wtf:

That's distrubing...
Title: Scientists find T-REX FLESH!
Post by: Beowulf on March 25, 2005, 12:24:15 am
Now what if we could clone apparantly docile dinosaurs? Thems would be a cool bet.

"Yeah, he's getting big, but what do you expect with a Bronto?"
Title: Scientists find T-REX FLESH!
Post by: aldo_14 on March 25, 2005, 03:22:23 am
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Originally posted by Rictor


I wouldn't exactly call it technology in the sense we know it, I mean we are talking about timetravel and cloning dinasaurs here, not WiFi. Plus, they have to be disastrous, otherwise there would be no plotline.


That's because his apocalyptic story about humanities deaths at the hands of an army of electric toasters didn't do too well on the bestseller lists.
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Post by: karajorma on March 25, 2005, 04:29:11 am
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Originally posted by Rictor
I wouldn't exactly call it technology in the sense we know it, I mean we are talking about timetravel and cloning dinasaurs here, not WiFi. Plus, they have to be disastrous, otherwise there would be no plotline.


You could easily write the books so the problems are due to abuses of the technology rather than the technology itself. His whole agenda iis one of don't mess with Nature or high technology because everyone will die horribly if we do.

He's almost as bad Kevin "Captain Cyborg" Warwick
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Post by: NGTM-1R on March 25, 2005, 04:47:34 am
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Originally posted by aldo_14


That's because his apocalyptic story about humanities deaths at the hands of an army of electric toasters didn't do too well on the bestseller lists.


Though they made three games and at least two popular sci-fi series out of it...

*glances over at the Cybrids and Cylons, both of whom have been called toasters*
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Post by: Flipside on March 25, 2005, 04:49:32 am
Actually, Ostritch doesn't surprise me, those things can run like the wind, and can actually kill a human with a single kick. Luckily for us, they're vegetarian :)
Title: Scientists find T-REX FLESH!
Post by: aldo_14 on March 25, 2005, 04:56:01 am
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Originally posted by karajorma


You could easily write the books so the problems are due to abuses of the technology rather than the technology itself. His whole agenda iis one of don't mess with Nature or high technology because everyone will die horribly if we do.

He's almost as bad Kevin "Captain Cyborg" Warwick


:nod:

I actually like Crichton as an 'airport paperback' writer, but it's true.

 Last book of his I read was about an agent based system that somehow becomes sentient, evil and eventually 'posesses' people (at the end)... really all very bizarre and somewhat implausible.  

(Of course, I have the benefit of a few months working on an agent system at uni in knowing this is not really likely)
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Post by: icespeed on March 25, 2005, 04:57:22 am
hey, crichton rocks. okay so his stories are a bit repetitive in the theme sense, but he's a good writer. any one read "a case of need"? that was written under a pseudonym, i don't remember what it was. but it was basically pro-abortion.
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Post by: Nico on March 25, 2005, 06:41:54 am
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Originally posted by karajorma
What would you expect from a luddite like Crichton? All his books are about how tecnology is bad.


Emergency Room?
Title: Scientists find T-REX FLESH!
Post by: karajorma on March 25, 2005, 06:58:25 am
and when exactly did he turn that into a book?