Ever since Michael Crichton first penned Jurassic Park in 1990, the world has been captivated
by the idea of Isla Nublar - a remote island jam-packed with a genetic re-origination of
the most ferocious creatures that evolution has ever pumped out - the land of the dinosaurs.
Yet this idea is one that has long before been germinated in modern culture - the idea
of a remote, secret paradise where the Reptilian Lizard Kings managed to survive the cosmic
chaos of time - and not only survive, but thrive.
Well, as chance should have it - that mysterious place known only as the SCP Foundation has
got this one covered to boot - so let me introduce you to SCP-1265 - and in this metaphysical
proposal, things are a little bit different, to say the least.
Hello internet - and welcome back to the most inquisitive channel on YouTube - Life’s
Biggest Questions.
As per usual, I’ll be your disembodied floating voice Jack Finch - as today, we curiously
ask the question - What If SCP-1265 Was Real?
Roll the clip.
Oh man, that clip gets me every time.
Life well and truly does find a way.
But as I touched on previously, the author of Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton, wasn’t
exactly the O.G of mysterious Prehistoric pacific islands - yet instead, built on the
works of three of his legendary predecessors.
In 1864 - Jules Verne penned his speculative science fiction novel, A Journey to the Centre
of the Earth - where professor Otto Lidenbrock, his nephew Axel and their pal Hans descended
an Icelandic volcano to find a terrifying subterranean world of prehistoric creatures
and other big bad scaly scaries.
This later inspired Edgar Rice Burroughs Caspak trilogy, beginning with The Land That Time
Forgot - as well as his Pellucidar series.
And similarly, a few years before - Arthur Conan Doyle penned The Lost World - and his
wholly not dissimilar discovery of a terrifying prehistoric land.
But - and this is a very BIG but - all of these fictional worlds seem to have gotten
one thing glaringly wrong.
None of their fictional dinosaurs had feathers, and so thankfully for us - the SCP Foundation
is here to rectify that catastrophic misinterpretation.
As the record states, SCP-1265 is an irregularly shaped area of land measuring 50 kilometres
squared within the Congo basin of Africa.
It is mostly contained within the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the majority of
the anomalous area is uninhabited, save for several tribal villages.
So, you may ask, what’s the big deal?
Well - SCP-1265 is inhabited by several species otherwise known to be extinct, the majority
of which are part of the clade Dinosauria - and are, in fact, made up of species from
no particular period of the Mesozoic - including the Cretaceous, Jurassic and some sparse populations
of Triassic-period dinosaurs.
These animals, which are collectively designated SCP-1265-A - appear in the area spontaneously
in groups of five, approximately once every 30 days - and as far as evidence has shown
- are incapable of leaving the SCP-1265 area - as they appear to dematerialize upon crossing
the border of the anomalous area.
So essentially what we’ve ended up with, is an X marks the spot - here there be dinosaurs
- but don’t worry because they can’t leave.
Hey, so it pretty much IS Jurassic Park.
Just with less panoramic helicopter vista rides and no Amber-cane clutching Richard
Attenborough making us all fall in love with well-meaning yet tragically flawed eccentric
billionaires.
And - oh, wait.
The dinosaurs left the island, didn’t they?
Ah.
Sequels.
But fear not - because this is a hypothetical SCP scenario for a reason, and yet if SCP-1265
was real - it just might be the most valuable research laboratory that the world has ever
known, and an idealistic pariah of paleontology that the likes of Isla Nublar pales in comparison
to.
Essentially, if SCP-1265 was real - it would be a looking glass into a time untold, an
impossibly ancient relic of scientific discovery - and for one reason - and one reason alone.
Preservation.
As SCP-1265 explains, the site itself is publicly maintained as a wildlife preserve under the
guise of the Safe and Clean Planet Initiative - a company acting as a front for the Foundation,
acting independently to conceal the true intention of the anomalous area.
Check.
Tick that box.
Corporate concealment.
We’re good to go.
Not only this though, but as SCP-1265 has demonstrated - these anomalous creatures cannot
be removed from the site.
Period.
And site security would be a self-contained solution.
As in, not even their meat can be taken from the area before dematerialising - so forget
about solving world hunger with an infinitely replicating dinosaur farm - because hey, the
Foundation have already covered that with SCP-563 - and also, everyone knows that dinosaur
meat tastes like out of date bologna.
Right?
No.
SCP-1265 is exclusively preserved for research purposes - and the world would be all the
better because of it.
Why?
Because, well - we’ve got a lot to learn from our Reptilian ancestors, and deep within
their genetic makeup - humanity could find the answer to an infinite amount of questions
about evolution, biomechanics - and even extraterrestrial life.
Now, we know a smidgen of a tid-bit about our Giant Scaly friends - and even with the
greatest of scientific processes, trying to look back to the Mesozoic era with certainty
is like trying to watch a VHS Tape of the 1966 World Cup Final on a Phonograph built
in 1877.
It’s incredibly difficult, and highly unlikely.
But with SCP-1265 - we’d have a real-time living simulation to expand our scientific
understanding, and apply it to our own, complicated modern problems.
The creatures of the Mesozoic period live through several millennia of climate change
- and by studying the impact that this had on their physiology, we could apply it to
our own environmental battles.
Perhaps if SCP-1265 was real, world leaders and nations across the planet would put aside
their differences for a moment and collectively send their best and brightest minds to a small,
50 kilometre squared area in the Democratic Republic of the Congo - much like how we send
our best and brightest to the International Space Station to further progress the scientific
machine.
Hey - maybe it’s an idealism, but it’s an idealism that we collectively honour - and
we would perhaps do the same to a perfectly preserved prehistoric paradise.
It’s a nice thought, isn’t it?
Well, unfortunately folks - that’s all we’ve got time for in today’s video - cheers for
sticking around all the way until the end.
Before we depart though, let’s read out some of your more creative comments from over
the past few days.
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