Jurassic Park: New Blood
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Hence why I say we could instead do cloning crops instead.
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Being able to bring back the original banana would probably be huge. Apparently there was a blight that decimated the crops of Gros Michel bananas; and forced a shift in the industry to the heartier but much more bland-tasting bananas found today, the Cavendish. Due to a fungal infection known as the Panama Disease.
Yeah so agrigen is gonna be a great subsidiary for GMO crops
That's big bucks
Also helps world hunger
But more importantly it gives us more money for dinosaurs
That's big bucks
Also helps world hunger
But more importantly it gives us more money for dinosaurs
I think they are like the American Chestnut in that they still have surviving specimens but they can't be grown to scale due to the blight/fungal infection that devasted them still being around.
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In which case it should only be slightly more difficult to engineer a version of said banana with an in built resistance to the fungus.
Also I assume an update is imminent given the upsurge if activity on this thread?
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I hope so!
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Oh boy, even more reasons corporations can use to argue it's fine for them to demolish the environments of endangered species, since they can just be brought back right?Well now, looks like we may have competition!
The Return of the Dire Wolf
Colossal Biosciences has genetically engineered the first dire wolf to live in over 10,000 years. Here's what that means for other extinct species.time.com
Sadly yes... but not just corporations but also the governments...
Quite. Whilst morphology would suggest a high degree of relatedness DNA evidence indicates the dire wolf arose from an ancestral lineage that originated in the Americas and was separate to genus Canis (and that morphological similarities are a result of convergent evolution). It is believed they diverged about 5.7 million years ago.
Furthermore, whilst a comparatively small sample size nuclear DNA sequencing performed on the remains of five specimens, dating from 50,000 and 13,000 B.P., no admixture with grey wolves, coyotes or their common ancestor was found (this is significant because wolf-like canines are known to hybridise with each other).
These are dire wolves in only that the inhabitants of Westeros would call them such, and of course the fans of one of the most popular broadcast shows in recent memory, who would probably love a chance to own a 'dire wolf' - which isn't going to be too out there as a possibility given that there's a small industry for cloning your deceased cat or dog (about $50,000 in 2022, for dogs), though it may run into dangerous animal legislation.
Edit: Futhermore it overshadows their actually significant work, cloning several examples of the Red Wolf, a highly endangered but still extant North American wolf species, done as part of this project, apparently.
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This reminds me of a magazine I read as a kid speculating about the future that had "miniature lions" as a pet that were actually just genetically modified cats.
So the D-rex huh?
You guys think we're gonna have to deal with some rivals making man-made biological horrors?
I'd love to put a boot up their ass if they do
The tech is advancing faster than in cannon so hybrids like that will be easier to mak
You guys think we're gonna have to deal with some rivals making man-made biological horrors?
I'd love to put a boot up their ass if they do
The tech is advancing faster than in cannon so hybrids like that will be easier to mak
Sure but I'm quite busy today
Yayyyyyy
I think their was a suggestion for having super durable jeeps with roll cages that ste Dino proof on standby for rescue operations?
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I can see a competitor who goes original Jurassic park style to try and run against us using cheaper and faster made creatures and that leading to the original problem
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speaking of dinosaurs, guess what's getting a reboot/new season?
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4qqoyIcERU
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4qqoyIcERU
Makes me wonder how that series would look in Questverse
also theres gonna be people trying to weaponise this technology of course
probably gonna have to put together a task force to deal with that when it becomes a issue
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HahahahaNO. People trying to weaponize this stuff are the problems of the sovereign governments that they're acting against the interests of. InGen is not going to have a dedicated task for for busting up individuals attempting to copy and weaponize the cloning.
It's as inevitable as people using the tech to push dog/cat breeds to even greater/crazier heights.
Though of course, we really don't need the attention of building a private army, beyond what we are gonna have already for park security. So yeah, better to just be specialists in working with the tech.
Also, beyond rule of cool fantasies, there is nothing here to really weaponize. There is no animal you could revive or synthesize that would survive on a modern battlefield and do something that isn't done just as well by a trained dog and any application in the field of bioweapons are well within the capability of non-InGen science and have been for decades.
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That's boring though
Rule of cool all the way lol
More seriously I could think of a few uses
These things are smarter than any robots will be for a while
I hope we see at least some weaponisation attempts to see how the world reacts and the fallout
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