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Jurassic Park: New Blood

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Fanhunter696 said:
I would rather try to increase our Wireless/Radio communication via repeaters and antennas, but of that is not possible buried Landlines seems like a good options
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Eh, problem is tech and well, there's a lot of mountains, so that messes with the signal.

The-Chained-One said:
fair, but even then, some animals can smell it or something like that and still dig 'em up, might depend on what exactly the wire is made up off, probably not gonna be an issue, but we might have to reinforce them or something
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I'm talking about running them right alongside or near the power cables for the fences. If they're digging that far down, we don't see and stop them, and they get into the concrete tunnel it's kept in, we have a lot bigger issues.

Fission Battery said:
They won't be in the dirt but pipes and tubes covered by concrete. That's how wires normally get buried. This is a solved problem.
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Ecactly!

We probably have utilidors ala Disney, where we run all that stuff.
 
TempestK said:
Roughly at 1989 at this point.
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Does that mean we can hire James Gurney to help concept the park architecture now? Or at least design some murals? He'd have finished his freelance work on archeological reconstruction paintings with Nat Geo plus his Waterfall City, Dinosaur Parade and other lost world paintings by now and will have just started work on the Dinotopia book.
 
[X][Personal]Offer to take Nicte to dinner to make up for apparently being an idiot about people? You just know she's mad at you and you really don't like it.

[X][Ranger]Have them be subsidiaries to the animal handlers. It'll make them effectively their own sub-department and will have them constantly on the move through the park.

[X][Hatching]Continue the slow and steady pace of having the scientists work on a singular species of dinosaur at a time. There will be fewer dinosaurs than in canon but they will be more robust, socialized, and better understood.

[X][Breeding]Rely on the future rangers/keepers and the system you're setting up to track the dinosaurs to monitor their numbers. Begin drawing up a base plan for entering enclosures to check potential nests, and ways in which you could control their numbers and genetic diversity even with a breeding population.

[X][Revival]Thylacine. One of the poster species of extinction, the Tasmanian government has requested your efforts to revive the species. Possibly the most complex project yet due to the subject being a marsupial. But also a much more recent extinction event than the Terror Birds.

[X][Wu Next Step]Triceratops. One of the Big Names of the dinosaur world, as recognizable as the T-Rex by any child around the globe. Also probably going to be the second third biggest herbivore you give the okay on reviving. You and Gerry are likely going to need to lean heavily on how Rhino calves are dealt with, as well as making damn sure no one loses any body parts to that beak. You've seen what an alligator snapping turtle can do to a man. A Triceratops eclipses that by several orders of magnitude.
 
steampvnc1880 said:
Does that mean we can hire James Gurney to help concept the park architecture now? Or at least design some murals? He'd have finished his freelance work on archeological reconstruction paintings with Nat Geo plus his Waterfall City, Dinosaur Parade and other lost world paintings by now and will have just started work on the Dinotopia book.
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Hmmm, probably commission him for right before the grand opening. Don't want to risk anything, and having some live subjects to paint would probably be quite the treat.
 
@TempestK Is there any way of recruiting into our staff Gertrude Hepple and Amelia Bittman?

Given the hand on approach that we are taking with the Dinosaurs their specialties would be extremely useful... And yeah we can´t give them the position of Head Veterinarian or Head Zookeeper, but since this is the chance to actually work with frigging dinosaurs, they may still accept another position...
 
Fanhunter696 said:
@TempestK Is there any way of recruiting into our staff Gertrude Hepple and Amelia Bittman?

Given the hand on approach that we are taking with the Dinosaurs their specialties would be extremely useful... And yeah we can´t give them the position of Head Veterinarian or Head Zookeeper, but since this is the chance to actually work with frigging dinosaurs, they may still accept another position...
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Unfortunately no. They've both got contracted positions now. Amelia was coming up on the end of her then-current contract with the Columbus zoo, while Amelia got brought in on an Orangutan preservation project and is hand-raising orphaned Orangutans in Borneo.
 
FictionPack said:
Heh, will that affect how the Dinotopia book looks in the finished product then?
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Not if we don't nab him now. OTL Dinotopia came out in 92 and if we pretend movie time is real time the park went on its disasterous trial run in June '93. Was probably going to have a rushed 94 opening.

I'll bet plenty of the eggheads in the veterinary, zoology and genetics departments subscribe to Nat Geo. Maybe Gurney has a few fans that can push for bringing him in after seeing Dinosaur Parade.

If not we'd definitely want him after Dinotopia comes out.

Moar edit: if we did get him now i imagine the biggest change to Dinotopia, besides it being delayed by a few years, would be theropod feathers. OTL Gurney didn't include those until 2007's Journey to Chandara.
 
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[X][Personal]Offer to take Nicte to dinner to make up for apparently being an idiot about people? You just know she's mad at you and you really don't like it.

[X][Ranger]Have them be subsidiaries to the animal handlers. It'll make them effectively their own sub-department and will have them constantly on the move through the park.

[X][Hatching]Continue the slow and steady pace of having the scientists work on a singular species of dinosaur at a time. There will be fewer dinosaurs than in canon but they will be more robust, socialized, and better understood.

[X][Breeding]Rely on the future rangers/keepers and the system you're setting up to track the dinosaurs to monitor their numbers. Begin drawing up a base plan for entering enclosures to check potential nests, and ways in which you could control their numbers and genetic diversity even with a breeding population.

[X][Revival]Dodo. The poster species for extinction in recent history. There are plenty of samples to be found thankfully, and while unlike the other species it wouldn't be able to be reintroduced into its home range, The World Wildlife Foundation was willing to shell out a lot of funds to bring it back. Sort of a whole "man wiped them out and then man brought them back. We just had to try," thing to bring more focus on ecological husbandry and conservation.

[X][Wu Next Step]Triceratops. One of the Big Names of the dinosaur world, as recognizable as the T-Rex by any child around the globe. Also probably going to be the second third biggest herbivore you give the okay on reviving. You and Gerry are likely going to need to lean heavily on how Rhino calves are dealt with, as well as making damn sure no one loses any body parts to that beak. You've seen what an alligator snapping turtle can do to a man. A Triceratops eclipses that by several orders of magnitude.
 
[X][Ranger]Have them be subsidiaries to the animal handlers. It'll make them effectively their own sub-department and will have them constantly on the move through the park.

[X][Espionage]Follow up on Biosyn, they've got a long-standing rivalry with InGen apparently.

[X][Hatching]Continue the slow and steady pace of having the scientists work on a singular species of dinosaur at a time. There will be fewer dinosaurs than in canon but they will be more robust, socialized, and better understood.

[X][Wu Next Step]Triceratops. One of the Big Names of the dinosaur world, as recognizable as the T-Rex by any child around the globe. Also probably going to be the second third biggest herbivore you give the okay on reviving. You and Gerry are likely going to need to lean heavily on how Rhino calves are dealt with, as well as making damn sure no one loses any body parts to that beak. You've seen what an alligator snapping turtle can do to a man. A Triceratops eclipses that by several orders of magnitude.

[X][Breeding]Rely on the future rangers/keepers and the system you're setting up to track the dinosaurs to monitor their numbers. Begin drawing up a base plan for entering enclosures to check potential nests, and ways in which you could control their numbers and genetic diversity even with a breeding population.

[X][Revival]Dodo. The poster species for extinction in recent history. There are plenty of samples to be found thankfully, and while unlike the other species it wouldn't be able to be reintroduced into its home range, The World Wildlife Foundation was willing to shell out a lot of funds to bring it back. Sort of a whole "man wiped them out and then man brought them back. We just had to try," thing to bring more focus on ecological husbandry and conservation.
 
[X][Ranger]Have them be subsidiaries to the animal handlers. It'll make them effectively their own sub-department and will have them constantly on the move through the park.

[X][Espionage]Follow up on Biosyn, they've got a long-standing rivalry with InGen apparently.

[X][Hatching]Continue the slow and steady pace of having the scientists work on a singular species of dinosaur at a time. There will be fewer dinosaurs than in canon but they will be more robust, socialized, and better understood.

[X][Wu Next Step]Triceratops. One of the Big Names of the dinosaur world, as recognizable as the T-Rex by any child around the globe. Also probably going to be the second third biggest herbivore you give the okay on reviving. You and Gerry are likely going to need to lean heavily on how Rhino calves are dealt with, as well as making damn sure no one loses any body parts to that beak. You've seen what an alligator snapping turtle can do to a man. A Triceratops eclipses that by several orders of magnitude.

[X][Breeding]Rely on the future rangers/keepers and the system you're setting up to track the dinosaurs to monitor their numbers. Begin drawing up a base plan for entering enclosures to check potential nests, and ways in which you could control their numbers and genetic diversity even with a breeding population.

[X][Revival]Dodo. The poster species for extinction in recent history. There are plenty of samples to be found thankfully, and while unlike the other species it wouldn't be able to be reintroduced into its home range, The World Wildlife Foundation was willing to shell out a lot of funds to bring it back. Sort of a whole "man wiped them out and then man brought them back. We just had to try," thing to bring more focus on ecological husbandry and conservation.
 
By the way @TempestK I am assuming that if we ever bring back the Troodon, it will be like its real-life counterpart (small therapod with a high intelligence level for a dinosaur) and not the ones from the game (which are basically discount Xenomorphs)

This admittedly would make them a pain in the ass to handle because the smarter an animal is things the more shenanigans we can expect, but not a nightmarish monster.
 
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Bored Doctor Wu asks permission to push the intelligence angle as far as the genetics will go. We say sure expecting an african grey parrot level because that's probably what the upper level of possibility was irl.... accidentally create Earth's second human level intelligence species. An all new kind of nightmare (for our PR department). That said, aren't troodons a dubious genus now? They might exist in Jurassic Park's timeline but irl scientists were like 'hey i found these weird teeth, who do you suppose they belong to' 'i dunno, troodon?"
 
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[X][Personal]Offer to take Nicte to dinner to make up for apparently being an idiot about people? You just know she's mad at you and you really don't like it.
[X][Ranger]Have them be subsidiaries to the animal handlers. It'll make them effectively their own sub-department and will have them constantly on the move through the park.
[X][Espionage]Follow up neither. You know who your probable enemies are now. Prepare for the potential of further attempts at espionage.
[X][Hatching]Continue the slow and steady pace of having the scientists work on a singular species of dinosaur at a time. There will be fewer dinosaurs than in canon but they will be more robust, socialized, and better understood.
[X][Wu Next Step]Triceratops. One of the Big Names of the dinosaur world, as recognizable as the T-Rex by any child around the globe. Also probably going to be the second third biggest herbivore you give the okay on reviving. You and Gerry are likely going to need to lean heavily on how Rhino calves are dealt with, as well as making damn sure no one loses any body parts to that beak. You've seen what an alligator snapping turtle can do to a man. A Triceratops eclipses that by several orders of magnitude.
[X][Breeding]Rely on the future rangers/keepers and the system you're setting up to track the dinosaurs to monitor their numbers. Begin drawing up a base plan for entering enclosures to check potential nests, and ways in which you could control their numbers and genetic diversity even with a breeding population.
[X][Revival]Dodo. The poster species for extinction in recent history. There are plenty of samples to be found thankfully, and while unlike the other species it wouldn't be able to be reintroduced into its home range, The World Wildlife Foundation was willing to shell out a lot of funds to bring it back. Sort of a whole "man wiped them out and then man brought them back. We just had to try," thing to bring more focus on ecological husbandry and conservation.
 
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    • The painter's brush hovered over the canvas as he watched the creature in the enclosure. The horse sized fluffball bowed, wiggled her long, straight tail, and pounced on the heavy duty solid rubber ball. The ball, of course, didn't stay put and the… the dinosaur rolled forward with a screech ending with the ball on top of her. She kicked it off with her long slender legs.

    He recalled, the night after he had first seen the creature, wanting to ball up his initial sketches for the Rainy Basin sequence in his book before thinking better of it. Art was a process after all. He had asked if this was a mistake or some kind of mutation. One Dr. Sorkin had said she was increasingly sure almost all theropod dinosaurs had feathers to some extent for at least some of their life. He had grown up in the 50s knowing dinosaurs were big scaly plodding things. As he worked on his archaeology degree and did work for National Geographic, however, he couldn't help but learn a thing or two about this "dinosaur renaissance" that was going on in the paleontology world. New ideas about active warm blooded creatures that lived in herds or packs and cared for their young. It inspired him to combine his imagining of ancient civilizations with his imagining of long gone animals in drawings and sketches of things that could never exist. And now they had feathers too.

    The fluffball stabilized the ball with one foot and gnawed on it with her rather disconcertingly long teeth. That couldn't possibly taste good. Maybe it was some cleaning behavior? He imagined an ancient beast in her natural habitat chewing on an unstable log. A brush touched canvas.


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