The best part about the Emu War is how the wikipedia page has all the details recorded with the exhaustingly loving excess of detail so typical of military historians. Seriously, the article reads like one of the great conflicts of WWI with how much passion is put into it.
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Well, the emus may have won the war, but they didn't manage to get any kill.
Scientists who've seen the movie and still: Let's clone them and find out!
I mean…yeah, if we had a realistic way to find preserved dinosaur DNA and bring those bad boys back? I’d say do it in a heartbeat. Stupid? Absolutely. But worth it.
Sadly finding DNA that has survived intact for dozens of millions of years is impossible. 😭
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/animals/a42708517/scientists-reincarnating-woolly-mammoth/
Edit: I should say, not as old, but still. Also, we don't take care of our elephants, wtf are we going to do with a woolly mammoth.
Even if we could get a perfect DNA genome of a dinosaur, how would we go about getting the biological machinery that would've converted those blueprints into a living organism?
We can modify the genes of living animals by creating viable zygotes, growing them into viable embryos, and implanting them into living wombs, because we already have a factory that is configured to process blueprints of a very similar type.
We don't have the ability to rebuild a dinosaur factory, even if we get the dinosaur blueprints again.
Anything that accelerates the downfall of humankind is good in my book.
To be fair, those enclosures were basically designed to be broken out of.
Well in the movie the ranger is being ambushed by the velociraptor, more like outwitted
First read this as dinosaurs in Jurassic park can outwatch humans.
Sister it’s cool I’m just doing some dishes here. This is a plate, I eat off of it. slowly closes blinds
Off topic, bur why is OP banned?
I think it’s worth saying that "hahaha australia is a dangerous place that wants to kill you" jokes are (subtle) colonial propaganda
they depict australia as a wild, unlivable place to be tamed, a common colonial argument (the same was said of the american west), when the reality is it’s been inhabited for millennia
(not blaming you OP, or anyone else who made those jokes btw, it’s not obvious that they’re colonial in nature)
There is another joke in there.
well at this point it doesn't work because all it does is prop up Australians as badass people who deal with giant spiders and snakes like they're mosquitoes while we scream when we see a cockroach. and since we're not looking to tame Australia as new settlers anymore i don't think there's any harm to it today.
To be fair it would probably have worked better if they let the farmers do it themselves.


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