Billionaire Making Real-Life "Jurassic Park"

Will never happen. Just another man with mucho money mugging for the media.

wutttttttttt

He is doing it all for tail. Plain and simple

OMG! The basis for Jurassic Park 4

Why would he clone anything but a T Rex?

Good god. Not only is this story OLD, it's a f*cking RUMOR, one Palmer has disavowed.

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/palmers-jurassic-park-plan-extinct-20120731-23bvr.html

The Sunshine Coast Daily reported on rumours that the mining magnate plans to clone a dinosaur from DNA, so it could roam free through a Jurassic Park-style area at his Coolum golf resort.

It was reported Mr Palmer had been in deep discussion with the people who successfully cloned Dolly the sheep.

But a source close to Mr Palmer rubbished the suggestion today.
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"It's absolutely ridiculous," the source said.

However, Mr Palmer is expected to reveal highly-anticipated redevelopment plans for his luxury Coolum resort on Friday.

Hey, Mr. Billionaire... Clone Natalie Wood. That's a ride I would definitely pay a lot for. Just don't make it a water attraction.

@cress... lol.

What kind of wood doesn't float?

Answer: Natalie.

Will he offer a "coupon day"?

This scene still stands the test of time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkotneW-1dM

This is kinda guy who puts diamonds on satellites and cuts people in half under a moon laser.

Aaaaaand Mink said it.

it's called WorstPreviews for a reason.

Thought so.

If it sounds too good to be true, it's more likely horsesh*t.

This guy sounds like some rich bitch with diamonds on the soles of her shoes...

HIT IT!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I_T3XvzPaM

For your information:

Those dino species that have evolved into birds could be retro engineered back to their Dinosaur form by switching on and of the right HOX-Genes ;-) first tests with chicken turned feathers into a prefeather scale form and they were able to form a snout and claws.
Hox genes define our Phenotype so it is possible to evolve birds backwards.

But since the TRex got extinct the only possibily to create one would be by Genetical Programming. And maybe 100 years away from that.

Seen it in a doc*mentary once.

;-)

Yes. It's called How to Build a Dinosaur, from the BBC.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZMQOe9RQ4Y

NO, that's not the right one. Damn it.

Maybe this one:

http://dvice.com/archives/2011/06/paleontologists.php

TED. But only 16 minutes. Not sure if this is the one. No mention of HOX genes, but then I only skimmed it. Somewhat boring.

http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/08/20/the-quest-to-build-a-dinosaur/

http://www.livescience.com/17642-chickenosaurus-jack-horner-create-dinosaur.html

http://phys.org/news/2010-11-key-genes-insight-evolution-dinosaurs.html

Maybe I mixed things up a little, I listened to a biology lecture once since they are not far away from the technology departments on campus and the professor war talking about hox genes and some experiments they did on fish and their morphology. That was 4 years ago :D sorry I dont know much about genetics but it fascinates me to see the advances we make.

And I think it is obvious that one day we'll be able to program oder describe a living organism in a higher programming language that finally gets compiled to a genetic sequence. Then we can ressurrect dinosaurs and develop dragons or unicorns or cave trolls ;-) whatever you can imagine.

and society will scream "moral, moral, ethics, ethics!"

If we did learn something from Jurassic Park then to set out new organisms on islands ;-)

The way I see it, one day we'll have a library of genetic building blocks and the various rules that can be used to combine them. Once he we have total sequence capability, once we know how and why genes code for this and that, and how all the permutations of genotypes give rise to the various phenotypes, not only will be able to reconstruct dinosaurs but pretty much every other earth organism, along with unknown transitional forms as well, plus pretty much any organism we see fit, such that not only will we be able to model future ecosystems, we will be able to model the life that would be best adapted, life that doesn't exist, hasn't existed, and finally, at some point, with the aid of vast computational capabilities, we will be able to build pretty much any form of life allowable within the regime of known, possible physics, such that we can look at a star a billion light-years away, deduce its chemical composition, its possible planetary companions and THEIR chemical makeup, and construct life that would, could exist their, life not necessarily similar to earth life.

In fact, 'scientists' just recently simulated an entire bacteria, computationally:

http://www.bioflukes.com/blogs/146

And there's this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ8AIfwcKn0&feature=relmfu

Which is rudimentary of course, but a cool step in the right direction.

So making a 'chickensaurus' is a cool idea, but conceptually primitive, as all they are hoping to do is isolating dormant genes that code for vestigial phenotype components, and then turning them on. More interesting then would the suppression of existing phenotype features, like say a particular claw morphology, and the substitution therein of some more 'primitive' form. Thing is, they have no idea what's encoded and what's not, and quite obviously, there's no indication a chicken's DNA is as complex as, say, a velociraptor, thus, there's no way to say if a chicken, or any other bird for that matter, has within it's DNA enough to make anything remotely approaching a true dino.

Seems to me then they're just hoping to play Frankenstein with a LEGO set missing most of it's pieces.

Anyway, my dream is total permutation fabrication. Nature's ultimate LEGO set, i.e., the ability to build, with the aid of vastly advanced computational assistance, pretty much any object, organic or otherwise, as pulled, culled, from the cosmic paradigm. 3D printing, meta-matrials, genetic programming and bioinformatics are just, imo, the infancy of that dream, and at some point, a convergence will occur. Or so I hope, but I won't live to see it regardless.

their=there.

POS website.

...and other grammatical errors.

*sigh*

Mink- I like your idea of designing life for other planets. I've had similar ideas, but none with the depth of knowledge you have for the subject. Question: do you think its possible to begin small scale terraforming from just sending probes to other planets. These probes would land and release various new agents into that system, and this would happen over several decades. So even if man is
hundreds of years from making it to another world, we could already be manipulating said world now for future mans arrival. And as the level of AI increased, structures and systems could possibly be in place by the time man lands there. Thoughts?

And who's to say that we aren't already doing that? I have often thought that a lot of tech may have been around for decades in higher circles, only released to the masses much later. NASA and other agencies linked to NASA could be doing who knows what every time a shuttle went up.

@Mink:

thats an interesting idea. I guess the future will seem limitless to mankind. I cant imagine what humans will be able to do in a thousand years or more.

I'm reading "Physics of the future" by Michio Kaku right now. Maybe you should check it out ;-) it gives a little peak what to expect in the next hundret years. And everything is based on stuff that scientists are already working on so it's not a scifi book. I can really reckommend it.

@cress:
machines making other planets habitable. that will a normal scenario one day. By the end of the century we may have stations on mars and the moon. Once we control fusion the question of energy and money will vanish.
I'm sure what could do so much more even today but the question is always "Who pays for that?"

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