Board Thread:Fossil Fuels/@comment-3213993-20160127052118/@comment-3213993-20160129045914

Mjamnnella wrote:

Jurassic Park Treasury wrote: Idiots. Making a park full of dinosaurs is no different from making a zoo full of modern animals, or an aquarium full of sharks. Without scientists "messing with nature" we wouldn't have GMO insulin that saved millions of diabetics, or vaccines, or antibiotics. I would have to disagree. For instance;


 * The park would have to be in a highly specific location in order to match the climate the dinosaurs were exposed to millions of years ago. The earth was quite a bit warmer than it is now (even factoring global warming), and I'm still unsure how the dinosaurs would calibrate with our 24-hour days (the dinosaurs had days lasting only 22 hours because the earth was rotating faster back then).


 * It would be a lot more expensive. I wouldn't imagine cloning dinosaurs to be cheap any time soon. Not to mention the amount of security you'd need to ensure the safety of both dinosaur and human. As well as the feeding costs.

The climates we have today are well within the variation that would have been present in the Mesozoic. The Everglades are a good approximate of the Hell Creek environment, the Okavango Delta of the Kem Kem and Nemegt, etc.
 * It'd be a heck of a lot more dangerous. Due to many dinosaurs being larger than your average elephant or lion, they would be far more difficult to manage and protect. So there's definitely a higher risker factor into creating a dinosaur park.