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JURASSIC PARK

SCIENCE MOMENT BY KELLY PARKS

Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) goes on at some length about how all their safeguards in regards to keeping the dinosaurs contained are doomed to failure because evolution shows that it is the nature of life to break free, to find a way: and that is true.

Evolution is all about life taking on new forms to handle new situations, if you give it a million years or so!

Later that afternoon? No.

Ian is supposed to be the "responsible" scientist warning everyone about the dangers of technology, which is why I'm so angry at Spielberg. He makes great movies but he feels the need to toss in this pop psychobabble and neo-luddite fear of innovation in a lot of them, in spite of the fact that most of his movies couldn't be made at all without using the very latest cutting edge technology!

I wish he'd either entertain me or go live with the Amish, but STOP PREACHING!

SCIENCE MOMENT BY E.C.MCMULLEN JR.

JURASSIC PARK was based on the novel by Michael Chrichton. Michael earned his doctorate in medicine at Harvard, but instead of going into practice, he became a writer. Because science was so integral to his writing, and was his passion anyway, he kept active in science research throughout his life. He wrote the science behind JURASSIC PARK, well aware of what he was doing. To his death he remained firmly in the camp of the hardcore science fiction writers who are sticklers to the Nth degree over the science: an exclusive club shared by writers who either relied on actual scientists, like Mary Shelley Wollstonecraft (FRANKENSTEIN) relied on Charles Darwin, or authors who were actual scientists like Robert A. Heinlein (STARSHIP TROOPERS), Arthur C. Clarke (2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY), Isaac Asimov (I, ROBOT), and few others.

The reason Michael's novels and movies remain so popular and exciting is because the action is driven by, and the characters restricted by, the limits imposed by reality, instead of the flights of fantasy that suffuse SciFi with a fistfull of forehead slapping Duex ex machina hand or wand waving with every beat.

Science advisor to JP, Bob Bakker (who also gets a mention in the dialog), is a paleontologist who studied at Yale and Harvard, earning his Ph.D and becoming one of the most accomplished researchers in his field long before JURASSIC PARK.

Neither would have signed off on a movie that would flippantly disregard paleontology, biology, and evolution. In fact, in the dialog, when Dr. Grant discovers empty dinosaur eggs in the "wild" of the park that is existing right under the noses of the staff, he recalls how Hammond said that they used frog DNA to fill in the gaps of dino DNA that didn't endure their amber imprisonment.

Grant then leaps to his hypothetical conclusion that the only way an all female herd of dinos could reproduce without a male (parthogenisis - some species of birds can do this and dinos are likely the direct ancestor of birds) is if Hammond used DNA from certain species of frog that change their sex during mating season by apparent choice (there are a few bird, reptile, and amphibian species that can naturally do this: something mammals cannot) then all the female dinos are doing something that could already be in their DNA and further assisted/unlocked by the frog DNA.

We've known of this for decades.

And yes, like certain birds, reptiles, and amphibians, the dinos should* be able to make this change within the course of hours, not millions of years.

10 Animals That Exhibit Parthenogenesis
- Worldatlas.com

6 Animals That Can Change Sexes - And The Scientific Reason Why
- Inverse.com

Healthy frogs can mysteriously reverse their sex
- Nationalgeographic.com

Frogs change sex even in natural settings
- Wildlife.org

*No way to be certain, obviously, but it's not scientifically impossible or improbable. To the contrary, it's likely.

THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK

SCIENCE MOMENT BY KELLY PARKS

With all the lip service being paid to security procedures meant to keep these dinosaurs contained on the island, it makes you wonder why the final scene includes a pterodactyl.

"Uh, yeah, our security is absolutely air-tight. Well, except for the dinosaurs that can fly."

Morons!

JURASSIC PARK III
- Subset: Logic Moment

If there was an island full of actual, real, live, living, damn dinosaurs it would be mobbed by TV and film crews 24 hours a day.

The InGen corporation and/or the government of Costa Rica could make back all their costs with a decent website and a few dozen webcams.

The Discovery channel would build a base there and never do a show about sand crabs again. It would be all people would talk about for years and years to come. The way this fact of life is completely ignored makes no sense.

This review copyright 1999 - 2022 E.C.McMullen Jr.

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