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Australian Billionaire Wants To Build Jurassic Park-Style Resort
lukehopewell1 writes "Australian billionaire Clive Palmer has already floated a plan to rebuild the Titanic to scale and sail it around the world, but now the mining magnate has found a new use for his money: cloning dinosaurs. Palmer reportedly wants to clone a dinosaur and let it loose in one of his resorts in Queensland, Australia. The billionaire has already been in touch with the scientists who helped clone Dolly the sheep to see what it would take to clone a dinosaur from DNA."
Makes him pretty hypocritical, doesn't it? The fact is that all science is done with money that is created in the 'for-profit' market, in the private sector. So his point is - take their money, but don't try and do something that can generate a return on that money.
How about then do not take their money?
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All science is done as a spin off from successful, wealthy, for profit economies.
You can't handle the truth.
The only science that is any good has come from business-funded science. The Industrial Revolution allowed people to pay a much smaller portion of their incomes on their clothes and agriculture. A good contrast is Edison vs. Telsa. Edison made money and a lot of his inventions are all over the place while Telsa milked his one invention and brought the people funding him to bankruptcy (which is what government research does). The bottom line is consumers can tell what products have value a LOT better than governments.