If you had the technology to bring back dinosaurs.. would you?
2006-09-08 08:17:43 · 53 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Yes! For the experience of seeing these creatures in reality.
Some dinosaurs were vegetarian and it might make sense to bring them back first - to ease people's fears. But I would certainly want to see a living T-Rex if it were possible. I'd say, "Who wouldn't?" only several people have already stated that they definitely wouldn't.
My intention would be to keep them on a suitable island and have people visit under controlled conditions (yes, I saw Jurassic Park - wonderful special effects). Done properly it would be no more dangerous than caging Siberian tigers in a zoo. Note: I only approve of such captivity if it is the only way of saving this glorious animal from extinction. My preference would be to save them in the wild where, if I was foolish enough, one of them might get to eat me.
If a T-Rex became a danger to humans it would be dealt with in the same way as a maddened berserk elephant would.
2006-09-09 04:25:09 · answer #1 · answered by jayelthefirst 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The central theme of your question is to explore if we can use our technological ability and prowess wisely. And the answer is - no, we cannot! We simply do not have a choice in front of what we can do by nature. We simply cannot resist the temptation of exploring the boundaries of our knowledge and experience. I do not think that it is natural to us not to explore what can be explored. Once we know what we do not know we do not rest until the unknown becomes a part of the region what we know with full certainly.
I assure you if technology is there we will do just that – we will bring the old beast back to live just as you see in the Jurassic Park movies. Today there are many people who are in favour of human cloning, and some even say that cloning is already in practise since 2002. The possibilities are endless, tempting and frightening.
2006-09-09 02:27:51 · answer #2 · answered by Shahid 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I find that dinosaurs blood could cure cancer than I would definetly bring it back. Some dinosaurs evolved into birds of our present time. Don't bring them back and make them start all over again.
2006-09-08 09:26:10 · answer #3 · answered by steve 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah!! Of course, it'd be fantastic!! Can you imagine seeing what they look like? Tasting them (Brontosaurus Bearnaise anyone?). Come on, why stop there? Wouldn't it be amazing to see a real live mammoth or..... an actual Neandethal! The giant tree sloth, or even a dodo.
The whole idea is completely wonderful. Bringing lost species back from the dead (hey! that species of "hobbit" they found on that island!).
Dragons! Can we do dragons? Ah, go on!
It would be absolutely fantastic.
2006-09-08 09:09:31 · answer #4 · answered by anthonypaullloyd 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no you muppet, everything dies out for a reason it is evolution.
if we were to bring back dinosaurs we would wipe out mankind and then what? yeah nobody would be here to see them anyway. oh you mean put them in a giant cage? get real! do you know hoe big they are? imagine what the animal rights campaigners would say then?
2006-09-10 05:47:17 · answer #5 · answered by EJ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No way! Dinosaurs were eating each other back in the day. Can you imagine what they would do seeing all us human beings. Little appetizers running around! Grand opening...Grand closing~~
2006-09-08 08:22:59 · answer #6 · answered by 2cute4u 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We do have the technology, it is just not a good idea, one for the chicken that has to be genetically manipulated, and two, for the rest of the population (human & animal).
Where would we put them all anyway?
2006-09-08 10:13:57 · answer #7 · answered by morgaenwyld 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I would rather go back and see the dinosaurs in their own environment and of course come back to tell about it!
2006-09-08 08:28:14 · answer #8 · answered by peg 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Much as I'd love to have a pet stegosaurus, no. It would be deeply unfair, to them and to us.
Our planet has changed so much that I doubt that most of them would survive anyway, what with lower oxygen levels, pollution, destruction of what would have been natural habitat, and so on. Also, their effect on the natural environment and current species would be devastating.
As for humans, we would be easy prey for many of the carnivorous ones. I don't fancy running from a velociraptor. Do you?
2006-09-08 22:29:47 · answer #9 · answered by Sun is Shining ❂ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not unless they would have some enormous benefit.
It's also far more unnatural than most of what we do to interfere with nature now, and even that sparks of fierce debates (GM crops, stem cells etc.). I think it would be totally unethical, unless they had an advantage that would overrule the negatives.
2006-09-08 08:34:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋