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Australian Billionaire Wants To Build Jurassic Park-Style Resort

Posted by Soulskill on from the what-could-possibly-go-wrong dept.

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."

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  1. Awesome! by Elgonn · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't care how stupid, impossible, and just damn right eccentric this sounds.

    1. Re:Awesome! by SomePgmr · · Score: 5, Funny

      I thought the take-away was, "Pay your programmers well, or things will go horribly wrong."

      Also, don't breed that really large, featherless, murderous variety of chess playing velociraptor with opposable digits. They're not worth the aggravation.

    2. Re:Awesome! by davester666 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Or "don't go with the lowest bidder for the computer system controlling everything in your park".

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    3. Re:Awesome! by hvm2hvm · · Score: 5, Funny

      science that is applied for dubious rather than nobel goals

      Yeah, all scientists should have a nobel as a goal, not money

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    4. Re:Awesome! by aliquis · · Score: 5, Funny

      "Pay your programmers well, or things will go horribly wrong."

      No problem. I/we/she/whatever knows UNIX! ;D

    5. Re:Awesome! by DrXym · · Score: 5, Funny

      Dinosaurs and unicorns simply didn't make it onto the ark. That's all you need to know.

    6. Re:Awesome! by Krneki · · Score: 3, Funny

      science that is applied for dubious rather than nobel goals

      Yeah, all scientists should have a nobel as a goal, not money

      This is why we need a troll-funny mod option.

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    7. Re:Awesome! by michelcolman · · Score: 3, Funny

      I thought dinosaurs had never existed in the first place, and their bones had been planted into the soil by God to test our faith? Now you've got me all confused...

    8. Re:Awesome! by bitt3n · · Score: 4, Funny

      Crichton was trying to make a point with his Jurassic Park novels. It was a cautionary tale about "the law of unintended consequences".

      and as a result, some dude's building a dinosaur park. I bet Crichton never intended that.

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    9. Re:Awesome! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      I'm not the least interested in profit when I do science. All my research is centered around world domination.

  2. Interesting...And.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just for the record, he did actually watch the movie, so he knows how this turns out right?

    1. Re:Interesting...And.. by detritus. · · Score: 3, Funny

      Which one, Jurassic Park or Titanic?

    2. Re:Interesting...And.. by Daniel+Dvorkin · · Score: 4, Funny

      Jurassitanic. The touching story of a doomed love between a beautiful woman and a scrappy, determined raptor, set against the background of one of the greatest theme park disasters of all time. It'll be the date movie of the year.

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    3. Re:Interesting...And.. by drkim · · Score: 3, Funny

      Which one, Jurassic Park or Titanic?

      Actually, that would be pretty cool...

      Hundreds of carnivorous dinosaurs roaming freely around a luxury cruise ship, which sinks at the end...

      I smell reality series!
      (Frantically calling Writers' Guild)

  3. I'll be first in line by SuperKendall · · Score: 2, Funny

    I know UNIX, so I should be plenty safe.

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  4. Re:Jurassic Park by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought it ended ok, but IANAL.

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  5. Re:Wasn't this the plot of a movie? by jamesh · · Score: 4, Funny

    I distinctly remember that happening in a movie from my youth. It was even based on a book! As I recall it didn't end well for those involved.

    A futuristic amusement park where dinosaurs are brought to life through advanced cloning techniques? I think the movie you're thinking of was "Billy and the Clonasaurus".

  6. Re:Clive Palmer is a media troll by tehcyder · · Score: 3, Funny

    Does anyone have an update as to how the Titanic project is now doing?

    Sunk without trace.

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