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Posted 28 March 2005 - 02:34 AM (#1) BoomerSub

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Posted 28 March 2005 - 03:02 AM (#2) Joga Bonito

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Posted 28 March 2005 - 09:57 AM (#3) OtheG

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finally jurasic park is comming to fruition*!!

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Posted 28 March 2005 - 02:29 PM (#4) traumatic

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Posted 29 March 2005 - 12:02 AM (#5) acestro

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Posted 29 March 2005 - 12:05 AM (#6) icedizzle

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I've actully read into this a bit and it really isn't likely that anything will happen... sorry to burst the jurrasic park bubble but besides the lack of technology who the hell would want a t-rex running around again

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Posted 29 March 2005 - 01:25 AM (#7) Scolopendra

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icedizzle, on Mar 28 2005, 11:05 PM, said:

My professor says the influx of privatley funded digs has risen sharply scince the public announcement. Commercial technology certainly is lagging.....but keep in mind the growth and development of the technology, it is truly exponential. look how quickly bio-firms like genentech evolved in just the last 20 years (i know they are basically no longer, just an example). The atricles ive read from some scientists gave me goosebumps, the lack of media coverage has as well.
as the implications of this are profound. They have allegedly already found whole cells and a processing DNA from them. Not anytime soon but within the next few decades cloning is certainly not a laughable proposition.

Posted 29 March 2005 - 08:22 AM (#8) piranha45

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icedizzle, on Mar 28 2005, 10:05 PM, said:

who the hell would want a t-rex running around again

Uh, me and about 5 billion other people in the world. Why the hell would anyone NOT want a t-rex reincarnated?

Posted 29 March 2005 - 08:29 AM (#9) Death in #'s

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dam thats a great discovery

Posted 29 March 2005 - 08:33 AM (#10) rchan11

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Posted 29 March 2005 - 12:34 PM (#11) acestro

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piranha45, on Mar 29 2005, 01:22 PM, said:

icedizzle, on Mar 28 2005, 10:05 PM, said:

who the hell would want a t-rex running around again

Uh, me and about 5 billion other people in the world. Why the hell would anyone NOT want a t-rex reincarnated?

Include me as well. It would be cool first, who can doubt that, but also we'd learn about behavior, physiology, and a LOT about evolution. The problem is DNA falls apart and it may be a tough or impossible puzzle to put together. The other problem is to know where the DNA goes. Does anyone know how many chromosomes a dinosaur has? Much less a specific species? Without knowledge of chromosome number it gets really hairy... Hate to be a skeptic... but no one ever would have predicted soft tissue this old existing at all!

I dont get the lack of media coverage either :bump:

Posted 29 March 2005 - 06:45 PM (#12) piranha45

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couldn't you just do a methodical 200 tests with chromosome number? i mean the things most surely had between 15-200 chromosomes..

Posted 30 March 2005 - 12:28 AM (#13) acestro

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piranha45, on Mar 29 2005, 11:45 PM, said:

couldn't you just do a methodical 200 tests with chromosome number? i mean the things most surely had between 15-200 chromosomes..

Not sure how that works, can it tell you how many genes were in each chromosome?

Posted 30 March 2005 - 01:53 AM (#14) piranha45

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no clue, I was just trying to speculate with what you gave me :P

Posted 30 March 2005 - 11:53 AM (#15) acestro

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Oh, I thought you had experience from lab work! :braveheart:

The problem isn't having chromosomes and figuring out how many you pop in, it's the fact that you have broken up DNA everywhere and dont know how much or which bits go into a chromosome and how many chromosomes you have. I'm no gel jockey but that's my understanding of it.

Posted 31 March 2005 - 11:48 AM (#16) acestro

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The cool thing is (and I dont know why it wasn't suggested) there may be intact genes. While this wont make a dinosaur, it opens a freakish possibility of transgenics where you could put a dino gene in something like a chicken!