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Jurassic world fallen kingdom is out now across the globe, and itÕs left quite the impression
on audiences returning and audiences anew.
Because nothing draws people in like raging dinos threatening humanity.
Now if you are new to the Jurassic Park franchise or perhaps need a bit of a refresher or want
to learn something new, we decide to put together a little history about the park and how all
of this came to be, plus the possibility of maybe having our own Jurassic park someday.
This video will also not contain any spoilers, so letÕs get started!
We begin with a young biology student, Michael Crichton.
Michael was studying bio in order to become a medical doctor, but he grew fascinated with
the world of biotech and how technology could become so advanced, the only limit was the
imagination.
Fun fact about him is when he suspected a professor of giving him low marks on purpose,
he submitted an essay written by author George Orwell and received it back as a B-.
Smart kid.
But rather than become a doctor, he became a writer, penning cautionary tales of what
happens when technology is taken too far, and one of his most famous creations was his
1990 novel, Jurassic Park.
The idea of Jurassic Park came in 1983 as a screenplay from a couple places.
First off, Michael wanted to use a theme park like that in his film Westworld.
And secondly, he had an idea of a dino being cloned from fossil DNA.
His main character was originally a young boy, but critics were highly against and he
switched to an adult point of view.
He reasoned the theme park idea would be the only way dinosaurs would be re-created, as
it would be far too expensive to do it for any purpose but entertainment.
So the groundwork was laid by the novel, and then Steven Spielberg came along.
As a kid, he was enamored with the world of the dinosaur and thought that the book would
be the perfect thing to adapt to the big screen.
Something more mature than your usual childrenÕs fun dino romp.
He wasnÕt the only one to think thisÑJurassic park was locked in a bidding war between Columbia
Pictures, Warner Bros, 20th-century fox, and universal.
Universal ultimately won with Amblin entertainmentÕs backing.
And the movie was made.
Bringing these creatures to life on screen visually and audibly was a challenge, but
one that Spielberg was excited to try outÑafter all if they failed at making the dinosaurs
there would be no movie.
Stan Winston of Aliens put together large form models, including a 20-foot t rex, while
Phil tippet from Robocop worked on the stop-motion animation.
But it wasnÕt until Dennis Muren brought up CGI and gave a demonstration that the movie
felt realÑhis computerized wireframes were beyond their time.
As for the sounds, everything was conducted from real life animalsÑmodified of course,
but real.
Whole dino vocabularies were constructed from distorted sounds.
For example, the Raptors were voiced by walruses and dolphins for their attack cries.
So now in terms of the movieÕs plot, why did the park exist at all?
Well, a company called international genetic technologies, Ingen, discovered that it could
extract DNA from mosquitos that were trapped in amber.
These bugs would suck blood back in the Mesozoic era, get crystallized and preserved in the
goop, and would last all the way until they fell into the hands of researchers of modern
day.
The blood would be drawn out, the DNA extracted, and the dinosaur cloned from the sequencingÑwith
some fill in from frog DNA.
Sounds like something that could really happen in real life right?
I mean we have already cloned a sheep and are now working on stuff such as growing our
own meat from stem cells.
Sorry to break to you though, this would never happen: DNA has a half-life of about 521 years,
which means after this many years the bonds in it have broken down to the midway point.
After 60 plus million years of extinction, dino DNA is long gone and degraded.
Even if they were preserved as best as possible, in the cold and away from any microorganisms,
the max estimate for DNA to live has been 1.5 million years.
So if you see tales of scientists bringing dinos back to life, double check because it
is most likely a hoax.
So Jurassic Park will never happen and thatÕs probably a good thingÑthose of you who are
upset about this, did you guys not watch the movie??
They call them cautionary tales for a reason!
ThatÕs all for today kids, let us know in the comment section below what you thought
of the movie!
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