Living dinosaurs could be recreated within a decade, says paleontologist

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Or trying to decide if they were some bio-corporation’s property.

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That’s what the tongue-activated controls are for! :slight_smile:

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or it can be done with prosthetics

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That they’d have the attitudes of cats.

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They always forget to recreate the feathers,

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So Republicans are looking at a 2028 cannadite ?

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If a chicken is a dinosaur already - pack up - your work is done.

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I swear I haven’t even seen Jurassic World. I just threw together the laziest sci-fi tropes at hand so…okay, six and one half dozen of the other.

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YES, THANK YOU.

Part of me hopes this is ideally just shitposting on the part of Horner, just for the attention.

The rest of me thinks it’s really not and is just tired of it all.

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Living dinosaurs. If it brings back ELP, Yes, and Gentle Giant, then I’m all for it.

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With lasers?

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I live with a living dinosaur and the best analogy to living with a parrot is a monkey: the mess, the biting, the hormones, the screaming, the (to humans) out-of-control emotions, and also that they are smart animals that are actively studying you like a behavioral psychologist to figure out how to get what they want.

it can of course be argued that contemporary avians are an imperfect guide to how velociraptors or other theropods might behave, but smart wild animals suck as pets, and even zoo captivity is unfair for them on some fronts )even considering their health and safety). so, as with all the de-extinction stuff under discussion these days, wtf is it that we think we’re doing here? Not only do folks not seem to care to know about what’s endangered under our noses, but they’re discussing bringing back lives that have no place but in zoos?

Pebble seems to sense (and demo) the absurdities here (this guy adopted her, he didn’t teach her this stuff):

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Totally accurate dinosaur…

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Plock plock?

Plock!

Plockplockplock!

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Came for xkcd, was mostly disappoint.

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They’re just regular folks like us…

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Grockle!

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Sounds promising. Thanks.

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Or in that case “regular folks just like The Simpsons.” Everyone wanted a piece of that action back in the early 90s, and Dinosaurs was just one of the networks’ attemps to recreate the magic formula.

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I love how the T-Rex has huge robot arms operated by its stubby things

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