B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for March 21, 2016

And movies are like the internet, anything you see has to be real.

I have a feeling that the dinosaurs didn’t watch that particular TV show.

I guess he saw “How to train your dragon” but missed out on “Jurassic Park”.

“Um… what’s a movie?”

Science Fiction requires the willing suspension of disbelief to enjoy reading or watching it. If they went too far for you, you did the right thing by not supporting them. However, with nearly $1.7 Billion in gross revenues so far for Jurassic World, I don’t think Universal Studios noticed.

Of course, a comic strip putting humans with dinosaurs is more believable. Especially prehistoric humans who’ve watched a movie.

When we’re driving somewhere, my husband will grab the steering wheel aggressively and say, “I saw something in a movie once…and I’ve been DYING to try it!” Even after 30 years, it still makes me laugh.

If it works with chickens, why not with rapters.

My wife made me take her to see that movie. I didn’t like it. The first movie was good, but after that, why bother?

Said the one-handed animal trainer…

Is BC practicing to be a ’ Crossing Guard ’…

must’ve missed the disclaimer: “trained professionals…don’t try this at home!”

To quote William Shatner, “It’s Only a TV show!” (Or movie) I love TV shows and movies, and comics, and books, but fail to see how or why some people become so invested in non-reality.

This is a good one for the Famous Last Words on tombstones series…

Pete? When they called him by name, I don’t remember him being called anything but Peter. (Other things maybe, but has he been called Pete before?)

I’m a pilot and I also have experience on working with navigation aids and communications. There were so many things wrong with one of the Die Hard movies (the one where Chief O’Brien crashes an airplane) that I couldn’t keep up with all of them.

Most movies have some inaccuracies beyond the obvious ones. It’s a matter of how far you can stretch disbelief before it snaps.

I like the one where they stop in an arsenal full of big weapons and take only one rifle with them……….

@Cerabooge@Nabuquduriuzhur“I did look it up, and I don’t see any mystery.”.He’s been told they are human footprints despite being 20" long and with three talons in front.

Right. And bringing dinosaurs back to life if completely possible. Get over that minor hump, and perhaps a raptor handler would be completely possible. No different than a dog handler.

They look so cute! I want to take one home as a pet…

First (and last…) Velociraptor Whisperer!

He said right before they devoured him!

He’s going to make dino-sore. Bye.

“Though they are called “Velociraptors” they are really Dienonychus.”.Movie critters are whatever movie makers call them.After all, even within the book and the movie, they didn’t exist in nature, they had to add some DNA from other sources and species to create them..If I take DNA from a chicken and add DNA from a rhinoceros, at some point of substitution, it would be unreasonable to continue to insist it was a chicken — or a rhino.

“Chickens like many animals carry around old DNA that is turned off. Turning them back on could turn a chicken into a near dinosaur.”.Except for a few problems.The main one is that a gene which ceases to code for proteins does not have an error correction built in. Genetic drift means that even if you tried to switch it back on, it wouldn’t be the same..Further, some could work with each other but others may have developed to take their place and they would be in conflict with other..Consider how Downs Syndrome involves an extra chromosome. More is not always better..“Without adding any bird, lizard or amphibian DNA to fill “sequence gaps” since there won’t be any. It is viable.”.Questionable as explained above, but the book spelled out the actual DNA did have gaps they filled in with genes from others incorrectly assumed to be similar enough with interesting consequences..*"The question is can you make it carried in a next generation. I believe it can be done.".That’s a question, yes.Given enough understanding, it is nearly certain.Obviously we don’t know enough yet or we’d be doing it.