Idle Speculation

[Jade Binder <flugzoogle@yahoo.com>]

A note on the JP?s:  Given that the Island creatures
are constructs, not true dinosaurs, there must be a
high pre-adult mortality rate.  All the alien (non
dino) DNA can?t mesh seamlessly with the real dino
DNA, and successive generations must reflect this (of
course the original designers of JP ? InGen  - weren?t
expecting the dinos to reproduce so this probably
wasn?t of concern to them)  so that a lot of eggs
probably didn?t develop fully and those that did may
have birthed all sorts of creatures, many of which
didn?t survive but for a short time.  Those that did
survive to adulthood (or teenagehood) may have been
disadvantaged by their amphibian DNA (get those legs
at the wrong angle and you can?t run fast) therefore
providing easy fodder for meat eaters.  So I can see
lots of potential food for carnivores depending on how
many eggs can be laid.  As for the herbivores, surely
it wouldn?t take long for the islands to be denuded.
The Costa Rican government wouldn?t have been too
thrilled by this, nor would many other people.  I
imagine that the existence of all these animals would
have caused a great deal of debate as to what to do
with them. One school would demand the destruction of
such chimeras, keep the DNA sure, but these aren?t
real prehistoric animals, and what use are they but
for the idle entertainment of some.  It might even be
discovered that some of the animals suffer from
physiological breakdowns (falling apart as it were),
and would it be fair to keep them alive.  Others of
course would demand the maintenance of even this
artificial ecosystem to observe it and to follow the
inevitable changes that the ?natural? combining and
recombining of genes would bring about.  Perhaps
eventually a ?real? velociraptor etc. would breed out
(rather than these HammondRaptors).  In the meantime,
until decisions would finally be made, the animals
would have to be kept up.  I imagine that InGen would
ferry in food for the herbivores by air, not unlike
tossing out hay for cows.  The expense for this could
be offset by commercial means.  Beyond merchandising,
imagine live video feeds from several cameras on each
island.  A lot of people would pay for this
multi-channel package (imagine turning on the TV to
see a Rex stalking something ? live!).

What also interests me is the other guys.  Can?t
remember their name, but the group that paid that
computer guy to steal the eggs in the first book and
movie.  I don?t imagine that they put all their eggs
in one basket so to speak by hiring just that one guy.
 Also after the meltdown (JP1) it wouldn?t surprise me
if they hadn?t set a salvage team on the island to
recover anything they could.  Now these guys would
have been properly armed ? after all, this second
group couldn?t have cared less what happened to
InGen?s dinosaurs, they wanted to make their own.  I
bet (in this imaginary Jurassic-Park-is-real world)
that somewhere there is a ?special? hunting facility
where billionaires spend millions to blow away their
very own T-Rex.


So a couple of questions.  What do you think the long
term survivability of these animals was, what with
their amphibian and who-knows-what-all DNA (must have
been ant DNA to make that PteroNOTdon so strong) and
what would your final disposition of these creatures
be?

Of course all this is just idle speculation, but
that?s part of the fun of these movies, isn?t it?


Jade Binder

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