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[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I mean, the science did go wrong too. They tried making dinosaurs all one gender but used DNA from an animal that can spontaneously switch genders. Sounds like they fucked up to me.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 0 points 2 weeks ago

Anyone that thinks that dinosaurs are amphibians shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a DNA sequencer.

[–] bramkaandorp@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Without capitalism, maybe they wouldn't have continued when they found out there wasn't enough DNA for complete dinosaurs.

Or maybe they would have had enough time to think things through, and use safer/more appropriate replacement DNA.

Just spit balling.

[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, "good enough to keep making money" is a very capitalist mindset.

[–] chocrates@piefed.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

It's funny though, reading those books it seems that Michael Crichton has deep disdain for scientists.

Comrade Lysenko would never have permitted this

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

If anything Jurassic park is basically a lesson in properly vetting your staff.

Everything that happened happened because Dennis was the only IT guy and basically could do whatever he wanted with zero oversight. It's not like the dinosaurs were going to break out on their own, even the raptors only got out because the fences were turned off.

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It still comes down to Hammond not paying Nedry enough although he claimed he "spared no expenses".

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[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

He was getting paid peanuts for designing and building an essential system for the running of the park all on his own, working for a guy that constantly bragged about sparing no expense.

IIRC the only interaction between Hammond and Nerdy went something like "you should have negotiated a better contract! Stfu gbtw", which can pretty much sum up the whole wealth divide between the owners who gain most of the benefit and the workers who actually do the things under capitalism. Except if they aren't getting the better of everyone on average, they just shut the whole thing down or find others that they do get the better of.

[–] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I saw one of the more recent-ish movies. One of the dinosaurs removed its subdermal tracking device and the humans find it because it has a big blinking light bulb on it. A big blinking light bulb on a subdermal tracker. Are these movies self aware? Was that supposed to be a joke?

[–] Techranger@infosec.pub 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The tracker must have been made by the same manufacturer that makes all those bombs you see in movies, too. You can tell because they have beepers, digital countdown displays, and sometimes also blinking lights.

[–] svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 weeks ago

Jurassic Park is about capitalist hubris.

Jurassic World is about why we should not allow BD Wong to create the reptilian equivalent of the torment nexus.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

The science also went wrong a lil bit. The Dinos weren't supposed to be able to breed being all females; but they used frog DNA so some the dinos ended up turning into males and began breeding.

Seems like the "dire wolf" and "wooly mammoth" thing happened even in fiction; they weren't actually dinosaurs. They were frogs that looked like dinosaurs.

[–] darkpanda@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 weeks ago

It never would have happened if they just had stronger laws preventing the dinos from having easy access to gender affirming care.

[–] doomcanoe@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 weeks ago

You are under the assumption the scientists listened to the bean counters. I on the otherhand think it's more likely that any (mad) scientist who could make dinofrogs via genetic manipulation would intentionally splice the ability to self-transition into their creation.

"Demand I make my dinofrogs infertile will you!? I'll show you... I'll show all of you!!!"

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

strange they dint use bird eggs, or reptiles, as amphibians are pretty far removed from a dinosaur , distantly related.

[–] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

In the books, and movie iirc, they used DNA from all three, not just frogs, to replace missing segments of the dino DNA.

It was just that Dr.Grant guessed at it being amphibian DNA that had the unintentional side effect of allowing some of the dinos to change sex (which is a thing called sequential hermaphroditism) when he finds the velociraptor eggs.

[–] Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I mean, it's about both, but... do people really not catch the whole angle about capitalism and greed? Newman straight up gets everyone killed for a pay day, and doesn't even make it out himself. The only way it could be more obvious is if it had giant flash red text.

[–] blackbirdbiryani@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

More a reflection of people's attention spans these days compared to when the movie is released. Read any online discussion about media and it seems like people are on their phones for 40% of the show at minimum.

Hell the original film would probably not do well if released today because it doesn't have the obvious shoehorned plot points that the new movies have to cut through the morons.

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[–] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 0 points 2 weeks ago

Majority of people rarely engage with any media beyond the surface to actually analyze it and come to those conclusions about the deeper themes. Most just think "well, that's just people being people" and fail to see the social commentary.

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I have said for decades that we need to bring back some apex predators and let them roam free.

Tigers, hippos, fucking Komodo dragons.

Let them loose and let them breed.

Not only helping nature along, but it would do humanity a ton of good to be hunted daily.

It would cull the dumb, slow, fat population, bringing our numbers down, and teaching everyone some god damn humility.

I'm dead serious. I've been planning to relocate and release Komodo dragons into the Florida swamps. They'd fucking thrive.

Anybody wanna help, DM me.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

Ah yes, let's just let our old and disabled die, they deserve it for being the way they are! This train of thought has always lead to morally impeccable results!

Please re-think what you're saying, because it's disgusting on so many levels that I can't even begin to describe all the ways it's horribly wrong.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Stories about "science gone awry" are almost always about non-scientists screwing up.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 0 points 2 weeks ago

https://jurassicpark.fandom.com/wiki/Dennis_Nedry

Dennis Theodore[1] Nedry was the main antagonist during the first half of the original Jurassic Park film. He was a computer programmer at Jurassic Park. Due to his financial problems and low salary, he accepted a bribe from Biosyn to smuggle dinosaur embryos off the island.

In both the film and the novel, he is slain by a Dilophosaurus. He was directly responsible for the events that happened in both the novel and film. A combination of factors led to his demise: despite working in a career around dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures, he had a limited knowledge of them, and greed, which was intertwined by desperation to pay off his debt collectors and make himself rich after that.

[–] BryceBassitt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 weeks ago
[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

The bio science was averaging success. Not their fault that the IT dept fumbled the ball.

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