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 Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 10:24 am Post subject: Name mistakes in Jurassic park movies |
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I'll start:
1) No, dinosaurs did not evolve into frogs.
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| Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 2:47 pm Post subject: |
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Classic Jurassic mistakes topic
2) T-Rex did not live during the Jurassic epoch. (Perhaps the word "Jurassic" sounded catchier than Triassic, Cretaceous and the like.)
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3) There is no evidence that dilophosaurus had a frill or spit poison, and they were much larger than depicted in the movie.
Even though Jurassic Park has many errors, I still love the series.
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On one scene where the two kids are in the car the T rex smashes the glass on the roof, then it's cut to the kids holding up the glass roof, and it's no longer smashed.
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Can't get intact DNA from amber-encased insects from the Mesozoic era...
Can't use such "fictional DNA" to grow a dinosaur...
Can't expect a dinosaur to survive in the modern biosphere...
For the practical issues involved in potentially creating a "modern dinosaur", check out Jack Horner's book "How to Build a Dinosaur".
My favorite mistake:
When the T-rex attacks the car in the first movie, the scene starts with the ground level on both sides of the fence being the same. But that ground disappears when the T-rex pushes the car over the concrete barrier, and the car falls around 50 feet into the trees below.
Another mistake:
Lex recognizes the OS on the park computers as UNIX, which it most certainly is not. |
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| Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 9:11 pm Post subject: |
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| sartresue wrote: | Classic Jurassic mistakes topic
2) T-Rex did not live during the Jurassic epoch. (Perhaps the word "Jurassic" sounded catchier than Triassic, Cretaceous and the like.) |
Thats precisely why they called it Jurassic Park. Was mentioned in a scene where they first arrived on the Isle and see the Brachiosaur (sp?). Ellie says, ". . . some of these species have been extinct since the Cretaceous era."
Mistake: given new discoveries, quite a few of the predatory dinos had feathers (granted, a puffy Velociraptor might have been comical). |
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If you have an incomplete DNA sequence from an extinct species, you can't just splice in a sequence from an almost totally unrelated species and expect the embryo to mature. And in the extremely unlikely case it did so, you would not get something that looked and acted exactly like the extinct species, except for one useful trait that you spliced in - if you did combine the DNA from a velociraptor and a frog, if it grew at all, it would wind up as some sort of bizarre hybrid, not as a healthy velociraptor with the ability to change gender at need...
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Well, I seem to remember Dr. Who having an episode about 'the Silurian Epoch' which was set at a much later date...
And actually, I thought Dinosaurs evolved into chicken...
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| DeaconBlues wrote: | | If you have an incomplete DNA sequence from an extinct species, you can't just splice in a sequence from an almost totally unrelated species and expect the embryo to mature. And in the extremely unlikely case it did so, you would not get something that looked and acted exactly like the extinct species, except for one useful trait that you spliced in - if you did combine the DNA from a velociraptor and a frog, if it grew at all, it would wind up as some sort of bizarre hybrid, not as a healthy velociraptor with the ability to change gender at need... |
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| sartresue wrote: | Classic Jurassic mistakes topic
2) T-Rex did not live during the Jurassic epoch. (Perhaps the word "Jurassic" sounded catchier than Triassic, Cretaceous and the like.) |
Do they say that the T-Rex had lived in the jurassic? Jurassic is just the name of the attraction, which was made to have dinosaurs from all eras. Of course it's logical that the attraction got a "catchy" name.
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Velociraptors were far too large.
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| Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2009 4:32 am Post subject: Re: Name mistakes in Jurassic park movies |
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| Vexcalibur wrote: | I'll start:
1) No, dinosaurs did not evolve into frogs. |
Frogs and dinosaurs have a common ancestor, thought.
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| sartresue wrote: | Classic Jurassic mistakes topic
2) T-Rex did not live during the Jurassic epoch. (Perhaps the word "Jurassic" sounded catchier than Triassic, Cretaceous and the like.) |
Never underestimate the ability of a marketing department to ignore the engineering and science teams' notes. |
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| Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2009 4:56 pm Post subject: Re: Name mistakes in Jurassic park movies |
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| ruveyn wrote: | | Vexcalibur wrote: | I'll start:
1) No, dinosaurs did not evolve into frogs. |
Frogs and dinosaurs have a common ancestor, thought.
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So do corn and humans, if you go back far enough. Doesn't mean you could repair a broken human DNA strand with some corn DNA, though...
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