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Originally Posted by AKA_Monet
We make our students -- pre-freshmen, have an "Ethics Court" trial whether to clone dinosaurs like Jurassic Park... Do you know that in the book, the code listed in as Dino code is pBR322!!!
At any rate, we make the students serve on the pro side vs. the con side of the issue and present their "cases". Welp, after speaking to my husband about the issue, who is overwhelmingly on the con side, pointed out, once you make like a brontosaurus--who's gonna clean up the poop? Most the students never thought of that issue--so they all voted not make real-time sized dinos... 
As for the other things, no my hunny has ever heard of a viper fish... He probably has, but, he into the NBA finals... 
I think there are a few sharks that go below depths to feed. There is this one that has a shorter fractional shortening--the Z lines are closer to each other with a few more mitochondria powering the muscles in the Alaskan waters... I imagine that great whites go low depths or the swim far? And the whale sharks--just saw 4 of them up close and personal at the Georgia Aquarium, can go similar depths to some real mammalian whales. |
By the time we're able to create dinosaurs, if that ever happens, I'll be long gone...I'm sure.
Cloning mega dinos would be so cool. I wouldn't worry about the feces, because it could be used as fertilizer.
When dinos were here, the feces were broken down after time just like any other waste from animals.
I'm going out of town this weekend to a field museum. I'm really excited. The last time I was there they had a full size T-Rex fossil. When I took a look at the real head, I was so amazed. It was huge, and the teeth had to be well over 6 inches long. The presentation was really good, and they said that paleontologist believe that the T-Rex spent a lot of it's time with it's body parallel to the ground. I loved Jurassic Park, but I hardly think a real T-Rex could have kept up with a Jeep. I guess that was to make the movie more exciting. It's pretty easy to tell how fast they could have traveled based on animal body forms today. They weren't that fast. Then again I could be wrong, I wasn't around when they were here.
Oh, and I'm looking forward to seeing the exhibit on our solar system and beyond too.
Another good DNA fictional movie was "The Fly". The computer got confused and fused a fly's DNA with a man's DNA. Of course that would never happen.
Though biologist are now deciphering the DNA record to locate the instructions that make the different species of flies, it's so different in humans, because the protein coding stretches of DNA make up a very small amount of our genome, so our genes are really like little islands of information.
When your husband isn't watching the NBA, a great DVD to pick up is Creatures of the Abyss. I think that's the name. I'll have to double check though.
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