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SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 8 months agoWhere I’m from, when engineers complete their certification they get an iron ring made from the material of a collapsed bridge. This is remind them to not become arrogant and think about everything that could go wrong.
You wouldn’t be able to find a good engineer to design a park for animals no one really knows the behaviour of. Hammond would have to hire the people in this thread who think “yeah we could design something that will contain these animals, no problem at all!”
Well for starters I wouldn’t make the containment system an electric fence, have an electric fence by all means but have some physical metal rods backup.
Hammond probably got told that but decided it was too expensive. After all how often is the power likely to go on out on * and island frequently hit by hurricanes?
but have some physical metal rods as backup.
Do you know how high the animal can jump? Do you know whether or not they’ll be able to climb those rods?
Also maybe don’t make the dinosaurs bulletproof.
How would you know which weapons an animal is vulnerable to before it’s fully grown?
The problem is you don’t actually know many the variables you’re trying to make a solution for. You’re assuming you would have thought of a lot of these things only after you’ve seen another solution fail. Hindsight is 20/20. But if you didn’t have the benefit of hindsight how are you going to solve a problem involving lifeforms with an unknown level of intelligence, and an unknown resilience to weapons, and having unknown behaviours? You’re only going to know you missed something after whatever you designed failed.
There’s the part of the movie where Hammond is eating the melting ice cream saying “next time we’ll do it better.” That would be you because you’re certain you can solve a problem that’s not defined by empirical evidence (it doesn’t exist because they’re new animals) but based on assumptions about a new lifeform being similar to existing lifeforms we currently have in zoos, and think keeping animals we have familiarity with is easy (it isn’t, animals in zoos actually do escape containment).
You’re showing the hubris the story is warning against. Science depends on empirical evidence, and there wouldn’t be any empirical evidence on the behaviour of new animals grown in a lab. And if you are completely ignorant of animal behaviour (because you think it’s irrelevant) you’re going to be very bad at building a zoo. But you’re countering that by ignoring all of the knowledge we have about building a zoo (animal behaviour is important!) because there’s hubris layered on top of hubris.
lividweasel@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s actually a persistent myth. I’ve heard it myself as a wearer of an iron ring, but it isn’t true. The myth was that the first iron rings were made from the remains of the first Quebec Bridge, but they weren’t, let alone any over the century since. The bridge collapse did inspire the creation of the iron rings, though.