Just watched it for the millionth time on TV out of boredom and the reasoning they have behind being able to bring back dinosaurs actually seems possible lol

How exactly is this flawed?

Because it's fiction.

that's a good one...

http://science.howstuffworks.com/env...ur-cloning.htm

There's the short answer.

Funny you mentioned this film, as youngsters over last night wanted to watch it and I saw 30 minutes for first time since it came out. I was astounded how terrible the movie was in every way. A series of ridiculous setup just for cheap and obvious scares of things jumping out at people.

But science is pretty solid. For example, if you took dinosaur DNA and interspersed it with frog DNA, the result would be something that looks and acts like a dinosaur in every way, but can change sex. I also like how the scientists, fiddling with DNA from animals which lived hundreds of millions of years ago, knew exactly which genes (and how) to magically replace to make them infertile but otherwise perfect clones.

several things...

One being incomplete DNA sequencing. with a complete strand, they could bring back a dinosaur, but there is no way 65 million years later that any DNA is complete though they are trying to use frog DNA to complete the sequence.

the other being, the weather and atmospheric conditions might not be conducive to Dinosaur life in our modern times.

Next thing you'll be telling us is that Superman, Batman and Spiderman aren't real people.

i'm guessing you watched 30 minutes near the end, at which point it is a little derivative. however the whole setup, including the initial reveal & john williams' score is simply sublime. it's still a great movie.

Didn't think it was possible to hate Jurassic Park.

Would dinosaurs still be THAT big if they existed nowadays? I am under the impression that the state of the atmosphere back then was the reason the dinosaurs, along with many other animals at the time, were so damn big.

when was the last time you watched it?

about 2 years ago at the cinema. go on...

edit - i'm probably exaggerating how long the great parts are compared to the bad parts...but it's not like all the action scenes are bad anyway. the t-rex 'when you gotta go, you gotta go' scene is a classic of course.

can't get complete DNA

and don't have any giant reptile eggs for hosts

yeah, the atmosphere was mostly helium, so things could get a lot bigger because their lungs filled with that (as opposed to the nitrogen that's most of the atmosphere now) and they weighed less.

It also made their voices sound hilariously high pitched. Their parties were epic.

Should scientists 'Jurassic-Park' extinct species back to life?

http://us.cnn.com/2014/05/02/opinion...html?hpt=hp_t4

This question is ridiculous. What is science for if not for this exact purpose?

I watch it every time it's on TV. It's a fantastic movie and I'd love to hear any argument to the contrary.

This article wins a nice bunch of ****** points.

" The blood with the dinosaur DNA would be surrounded by the body of an insect, which has its own DNA. There could also be DNA from other cells trapped in the amber, which could contaminate the sample. Then, of course, there's the DNA in the laboratory itself -- and in the body of the scientist doing the extraction. "

Making them all female has multiple flaws
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Ok i'll bite, the reason why it's a bad film is because it was one of the main things that successfully brainwashed people into believing that dinosaurs once existed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ho...paleontologist)

"Horner served as the technical advisor for all of the Jurassic Park films, and even served as partial inspiration for one of the lead characters, Dr. Alan Grant"

So this Jack Horner, paleontologist/pr man/fraud, along with Steven Spielberg created the film Jurassic Park which was not only a blockbuster success in terms of sales, but it also served the important purpose of drumming it into peoples heads that these giant and deadly dinosaurs once roamed this planet before humans existed.

Haha ok, ShaneG, you ARE a level!

You think i'm joking, when really, Dinosaurs are the joke.

So uhm, what exactly is your evidence for dinosaurs not existing?