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It would be a reasonable thing to attempt with today’s technology, but it would be a serious R&D project.

It’s harder the older the sample and vastly more difficult if few closely related species survive.




> It would be a reasonable thing to attempt with today’s technology, but it would be a serious R&D project.

Dinosaurs have enough cultural prestige that it would make total sense to do it as a vanity project if the technology is there.

Similar to turning lead into gold -- there's enough cultural meaning built up around it that someone should do it before it really makes sense in a vacuum.


A project like this could be the space race of our epoch!


I could see Elon Musk funding a Jurassic Park kind of effort to re-create dinosaurs... just to be the first to taste a dinosaur-egg omelette.




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