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"Jurassic" Park
Submitted 14 hours ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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logicbomb@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
West_of_West@piefed.social 13 hours ago
Doesn’t quite have the ring to it.
somethingsnappy@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I think it would, if that was what they named the book and movie.
tomiant@piefed.social 10 hours ago
COME TO THE MESOZOIC MEGAPOLIS!
apex32@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Billy and the Cloneasaurus
redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
We spared many expenses. Mainly IT and personnel expenses.
Klear@quokk.au 8 hours ago
We spread no extents!
Deceptichum@quokk.au 8 hours ago
It wasn’t even a park, it was a zoo.
Wbear@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
A zoological park?
negativenull@piefed.world 44 minutes ago
A biological preserve?
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Cropped off the final text because fuck everyone that’s why
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
We really won’t talk about those “velociraptors”? The annoying kid at the beginning of the movie was the only one to get their description surprisingly accurate when he said they looked like a 2m turkey.
negativenull@piefed.world 6 hours ago
Also, wrong continent for Velociraptors (they were in Hell Creek Montana/South Dakota).
Deinonychus or UtahRaptors are the right size and continent, but don't sound as cool as "Velociraptor"
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I mean, nowhere in the film do they say that they stuck to cloning local dinos.
Zerush@lemmy.ml 12 hours ago
Velociraptors? Nowadays we have Wall Street
massive_bereavement@fedia.io 10 hours ago
But a very smart one!
bloubz@lemmygrad.ml 12 hours ago
This has been talked about again and again yes. Thymey wanted them bigger for better visual result, they made them bigger
OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Don’t be pedantic. They picked the name because it sounded cool and got the point across.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
It’s a pun on “electric park”, which is what amusement parks were called when electricity was still a new thing.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
that is a perfect TIL.
thanks
Klear@quokk.au 8 hours ago
And “they” means the characters, not the writer.
itsprobablyfine@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Not just that but a character that is written as glossing over important details for profit
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 12 hours ago
And most likely it’s because of that movie that regular people know a Cretaceous even existed and what animals where there. It did kick the field and public interest into high gear.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
It absolutely did for me! I know I enjoy dinosaurs because of that movie alone. The awe, the wonder of what could be. It was a glorious time to rent it from Blockbuster and have a family night watching all these movie hits.
saltesc@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
iirc the John Hammond covers this in the book. I was so young, but something is triggering it for me. Could just be the subconscious trying to protect nostalgia, though.
Doubleohdonut@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
Yeah he talks pretty openly about it being a marketing term, and the scientists later criticise the accuracy too.
guy@piefed.social 8 hours ago
Jurassish Park
Lemminary@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Hupf@feddit.org 1 hour ago
Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
The name itself was foreshadowing of their ignorance.
MissJinx@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
What if Neil deGrasse Tyson was a paleontologist
tomiant@piefed.social 9 hours ago
The Huge Animals of Various Geological Periods Park.
RaoulDuke85@piefed.social 6 hours ago
Dino Land!
MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
It’s named that way because of the raptor intelligence. “Can this raptor open doors?” “You bet jurassican”
Lemminary@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Daaad!