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if you build a perpetual motion machine and it eats the postman from seinfeld… you still made a perpetual motion machine
But you’ll have also made an employee of the Big Giant Head angry.
No no no, it’s all about paying your IT people well and being nice to them. If John had been nice to Needry, then Needry wouldn’t have needed to betray him. Pay your IT people, be nice to them and everything would have been fine.
Stories about “science gone awry” are almost always about non-scientists screwing up.
Would be nice to have an pet velociraptor. Never shown correctly in the Jurasic Park movies. They are not bigger than a turkey
Hammond literally goes around gaslighting the entire group by saying “spared no expense” when in reality he cheaped out and cut every corner. His undoing was Dennis, who was the lowest bidder in a security contract. Instead of picking the absolute best, Hammond went with the lowest bidders. Even the T. rex fence should not have been so easy to break down, power or not. The entire park was built cheap and fast. Hammond was a capitalist playing conservationist.
gloriously right
Not really. The dinos were half-baked imitations, not exact replicas. And they evolved in ways the scientists didn’t anticipate, because their reach exceeded their grasp.
There’s definitely an anti-capitalist message, but don’t dismiss the warning about prematurely greenlighting high-stakes scientific initiatives. That’s relevant to the modern world, no matter what our economic model is.
LLMs come to mind. There’s a section of the AI-skeptic folks that say the only problem with AI is the profit motive. I’m not so sure. People will use tech to do all kinds of horrible shit even if they don’t stand to materially benefit. Just look at 4chan.
I mean, the science did go wrong too. They tried making dinosaurs all one gender but used DNA from an animal that can spontaneously switch genders. Sounds like they fucked up to me.
Without capitalism, maybe they wouldn’t have continued when they found out there wasn’t enough DNA for complete dinosaurs.
Or maybe they would have had enough time to think things through, and use safer/more appropriate replacement DNA.
Just spit balling.
Yeah, “good enough to keep making money” is a very capitalist mindset.
I saw one of the more recent-ish movies. One of the dinosaurs removed its subdermal tracking device and the humans find it because it has a big blinking light bulb on it. A big blinking light bulb on a subdermal tracker. Are these movies self aware? Was that supposed to be a joke?
The bio science was averaging success. Not their fault that the IT dept fumbled the ball.
Even the capitalist hubris is done wrong.
They knew how to activate the dwarfism gene. They could have been selling pygmy raptors and rexes as pets to everyone. At the right size they’d be no more dangerous than dogs or cats.
But no; we need a theme park that eats people.
How am I supposed to ride a pigmy T-rex into battle, wielding two m16s, and screaming “America!”, then?
Chariots, string the t-rexes together like sled dogs, though now I think about it raptors might be better suited.
Okay, the chance to become a deranged santa-esque madman with pigmy T-rexes instead of reindeer is too good to pass up. Sign me up for 8!
there may be anti capital elements but it is a man vs nature plot with a suçon of trying to control something you dont understand or respect
They spared no expense.
While I’m fond of the anti-capitalist reading (and Spielberg’s environmentalist one), with the context of the rest of Chrichton’s books (particularly state of fear and next), I think the intent was moralism against genetic research
I have said for decades that we need to bring back some apex predators and let them roam free.
Tigers, hippos, fucking Komodo dragons.
Let them loose and let them breed.
Not only helping nature along, but it would do humanity a ton of good to be hunted daily.
It would cull the dumb, slow, fat population, bringing our numbers down, and teaching everyone some god damn humility.
I’m dead serious. I’ve been planning to relocate and release Komodo dragons into the Florida swamps. They’d fucking thrive.
Anybody wanna help, DM me.
Ah yes, let’s just let our old and disabled die, they deserve it for being the way they are! This train of thought has always lead to morally impeccable results!
Please re-think what you’re saying, because it’s disgusting on so many levels that I can’t even begin to describe all the ways it’s horribly wrong.
