First Post On Here Since IMDB Went Down
Ohhhh man, feels strange.
shareIt does feel strange, but onwards and upwards I suppose.
To be relevant to the this movie, I will say that Jurassic Park is still a classic.
Cheers.
Will always be a classic.
shareAlso I heard they are ready to clone a Woolly Mammoth so the story line is especially relevant right now.
shareYeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should.
shareWhy do you think ethically that they shouldn't?
shareIt's not necessarily a cloning but rather a splicing between mammoth and Asian Elephant. From what I hear, the ethical issues arise from the particular way they will birth the animal and what they plan to do with it. I read several articles on it and they were discussing letting a population of these animals out in North America and Eastern Asia for "environmental purposes". Whatever that means.
shareIt's a tough call because I can see how it could cause misery if the experiment fails, however I could see important benefits if they were able to for example revive a heartier version of bees if they went extinct.
shareIt absolutely could have benefits, it also could cause a huge fiasco.
Stories like Jurassic Park aren't around to showcase amazing dinosaur FX and set-pieces, that's just a bonus. Stories like these exist to remind us that humans can be incredibly stupid, no matter how smart we get. They also remind us to think before we act.
I agree they should take caution but I'm sure when they first started making airplanes people worried that planes would fall out of the sky and kill people.
shareI'm not against progress at all. Every new thing is met with an element of fear and risk, imagine being the first guy to sail a ship past the horizon a thousand years ago. Thankfully that person took the risk.
Caution is a key element, especially when playing with releasing a living population into an ecosystem.