then we could add a little radiation, and then presto, we'd have T. Rex karate action heros that likes to eat terriyaki chicken while being trained by their panda bear sensai... =)

chomp chomp!

as a side note, I think that they'd most likely have to learn Thai kick boxing as their fore arms wouldn't do well with karate....

Originally posted by mopusvindictus
Criminals caught disposing of bodies

ahhhhhhh

Maybe we shouldn't clone dinosaurs

hmmmmm... kind of sounds like the US government with testing LOL and homeless people and vagrants disappearing off the streets!

And then they would run out of food... can you even imagine how much food this animal would need to live!! I can see all the large game i.e. elephants disappearing and hippos disappearing to quench the hunger of science and some idiots messing with things they need to keep their grubby paws off of.

I don't think the planet would be able to sustain multiple of these animals any more. Eventually their food source would run out and then it would be people and then they would die out again!!

And then, in a million years time someone will dig up bones again and while they were trying to get to the moon and a few years later we will have come full circle the THIRD time

They'd definitely have new material for a new Xmen movie if this thing got cloned and then mutated to where the body was as small as the aforementioned cat but the head grew to it's 5 foot dimentions...

It would have enough muscle to push it's head around and chomp down on it's victims, kinda like a carpet sweeper running around down the sidewalk chomping innocent victims that get swept off their feet..



Seriously though, if they do clone a dinosaur population that was minaturized due to gravitational issues or lack of oxygen and then found a way to contain that population in a form of zoo, that would be pretty cool I guess... probably have to clone the things using little lizards I think though.

Oh i can just imagine if these things got loose or the "implants" they use to control them were bugged or their "trial" period expired because someone forgot to license the software LOL

Originally posted by shearder
SO lets say we hope they don't do this. Why do people mess with nature!

You mean like every career field someone could enter in our Modern Era?

Honestly, what modern achievements don't qualify as 'messing with nature' ? The moment we were cognizant of making those bone tools we were messing with Nature... we haven't stopped since.

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As for the T-Rex. If the gravity theory is correct..

Would it still grow to normal heights in our current gravity?

If it would, then it would also have imbalanced musculature and bone density, as it's genetics would be dominate in its development right?

If the genetics were not dominate, at least insofar as it was able to adjust to the new growing conditions, would it then be smaller, with properly developed muscle and bones?

It's hard to say, many more privative creatures seem designed to be able to grow within the limits of their environment for all intents and purposes.

Large Snakes like Boas, Some Catfish, Sharks

and I think Larger snakes actually came from creatures like the T Rex...

If so, a T Rex, might just be capable of growing, just as large as it environment allows for... given the conditions available

Some might say that the Asteroid that killed them off happened for a reason, so that we could arise as the new Dominant Species. Bring back the Dinosaurswill be a very foolish mistake, as there time on Earth was a hell of a lot longer than ours.

But im not one of these people, I would love Science to clone it's very first Dinosaur, just have to pick the right one to clone first ;P

The t-rex was a scavenger not a predator...and yes it would be cool,jurassic park nonsense i would love to see these animals! and no after the dinsoaurs i think it was the birds? that took over...mammals were still living in mud holes and such and were pretty crap....

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I'd love to see a real live T-Rex! Bring it on Seriously, I would.

Think how cool it'd be.

I'm not sure about the gravity issue, how can earth's gravity change that dramatically when its mass is more or less the same, unless you take in to account the mass of the cosmic dust falling down to earth everyday.

But as I remember is the oxygen level in that period was much higher.

If the T-Rex were to be brought back today, if you consider the lower oxygen level and possibly the gravity, we'd have a cute miniature lovable T-Rex

One of my biggest dreams would be to see this magnificent beasts come to live again.

With today's technology, it wouldn't be possible to clone a t-rex. The cloning methods of today consist of copying the genetic material of one animal, into an embryo in order to, in a way, convince the embryo to produce the same DNA, genes, etc.
It would probably be possible to clone a Mammoth through a modern day elephant because elephants are still alive today and they are close cousins of the Mammoth.

There are no known close cousins of the t-rex today that could birth a t-rex, and the genetics of it would be too different if we tried to use a modern animal.

Did we learn nothing from jurasic park? allthough, id would be intrested to go to a dinosaur zoo.

A T-Rex would be useless on a battlefield. Too big. Nowhere to hide. It would absorb a few rockets and many clips of small arms fire before being killed. Problem solved. You could even track it easily from an aircraft.

Far more effective would be packs of Velociraptors. Man-sized, or thereabouts. Speedy, athletic, deadly... They can hide, evade and cause much more trouble in packs.

Clone them, I say! If there's a chance to make Jurrasic Park real - do so!

Why a T-rex (even if it were possible)? Why not a Triceratops, or Monoclonius, or even a brontosaurus? Something that is a vegetarian - It would still be a wonder to see.