OT Elon Musk's Business Partner Says A Real Jurassic Park Can Be Done

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  1. SlyPokerDog

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    Isn't the earth only 6,000 years old?
     
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    Let's keep our science fiction plausible.
     
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    Chris Craig (Blazersland) I'm Your Huckleberry Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    Kyrie is that you?
     
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    Yes, I've always wondered that but was afraid to ask. For one thing the T-Rex might get pissed and eat me alive so there's that.
     
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    When I read your post I'm reminded of Isaac Asimov.
     
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    Fire breathing dragons bore me because they are far removed from plausible the way cartoons tend to be far removed from plausible. Yes, the more a science fiction book or movie is plausible the more exciting it gets which is why I loved 2001 A Space Odyssey. I don't know that much about genetics so Jurassic Park was plausible for me.
     
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    I’m on the short-face bear bandwagon.

    The most apex predator to ever apex.
     
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    If I was filthy rich I'd want a room for every occasion including one for hunting in which I would have stuffed among the largest meat eaters, including a very large polar bear but also a very large grizzly.
     
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    Hunting is against Jewish law. Because the meat can't be eaten due to dietary laws, it is killing for fun, and therefore cruelty to animals.
     
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    Went out tiger hunting with my elephant gun, in case of accidents I always brought my mum! Hey Bungalow Lanny what did you kill Bungalow Lanny?
     
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    When you land at the Fairbanks airport right inside they have a huge brown bear and polar bear there to greet ya.
     
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    I don't kill for fun. I kill for meat. That's why I prefer elk over venison.
     
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    I've been to the Anchorage airport but never the Fairbanks airport.
     
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    Right, but since observant Jews couldn't eat the meat it would be killing for fun.
     
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    When I was a home inspector (25 years), a cool Realtor who's family owned a 100 plus year restaurant/tavern told me a story about an electrician that got blown across the kitchen tables when he assumed he was safe. No matter what the situation a breaker lock is needed. At least he could have duct taped to the panel door and wrote a warning.

    I was inspecting a vacant house once and when all the lights were turned on, a burning smell sifted through the air from the pan. The house was built in the mid sixties so Aluminum wire was used. That material is incompatible with the ground buss. I cut off the main and we called the fire department, sellers agent and so forth. That was scary.

    I inspected a bookstore in Princeton, in the summer and used a laser temp gun on the breakers after I felt a hotter than usual 220V circuit with my right hand through my rubber glove. It was 20 degrees hotter than the surrounding breakers. Sometimes breakers cannot trip and that is really concerning. We, as ASHI inspectors never touched breakers or interior pans with our left hand/glove as that is a passageway direct to your heart.

    In a townhouse, built in the mid 60's, I opened an old Murray panel. The guy who installed the wiring never installed them to workmanlike standards as per IEC. How on earth did that pass the final CA? It looked like spaghetti squashed in a metal pan.

    The houses I inspected in inner cities always had my alert sense on higher ground. A lot of stupid people thought they knew what they were doing. Recently, in my role as housing, fire and building inspector for a small borough in South Jersey, I found telephone cable energizing an outlet, behind a baseboard radiator. It was probably tapped off an over wired junction box.. They do not get an approval without a NJ licensed electricians' invoice.
    Behold,,,, thumbnailoutlet.jpg Stupid insane people exist.
     
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    Yours is bigger. Winner!
     
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    Ah, now I see your point.
     

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