[extropy-chat] Re: Betting on Dinosaurs

[Al Brooks]

What would T-Rex be good for-- security at maximum
prisons?



--- ben <benboc at lineone.net> wrote:
> Eugen Leitl wrote:
> 
>  > Ben wrote:
>  >> Hatch an egg?
>  >>
>  >> This made me smile.
>  >>
>  >> Which currently existing animal is going to lay
> a T-Rex egg?
> 
>  > Crocodile, ostrich, some interim step between
> those and a dinosaur.
>  > It's going to take several steps.
> 
>  >> Any suggestions?
>  >>
>  >> (i think we can rule out chickens, turkeys,
> ducks and pigeons)
> 
>  > Why?
> 
> Well, i may be wrong about just how big a T-Rex egg
> would be, but i 
> doubt if any of those birds would be capable of
> laying one!
> 
> Assuming that's how it would work, of course.
> 
> David wrote:
> 
>  > A quick google couldn't get an exact size, but a
> lot of general
>  > comments about dinosaur eggs being small for the
> size of the adults.
>  > If an ostrich egg isn't large enough, they will
> have to make an
>  > artificial egg.
> 
> This leads me to wonder about the whole thing.
> something that lays a 
> shelled egg is probably a completely different
> kettle of, er, fish to 
> produce than, say, a mammal (or a fish).
> 
>  > compared to the rest of the problems I think
> putting the contents
>  > of a current egg in a tank and adding a lot of
> extra yolk and/or
>  > egg white would be fairly easy. If they go that
> route, I think a
>  > crocodile egg may be a good base to start on,
> they haven't changed
>  > much in long enough that they practically are
> dinosaurs.
> 
> Yeah, you might well have to do something like this.
> 
> Crocodiles pre-date dinosaurs, though, and they are
> not closely related, 
> despite their looks. I think birds are closer.
> This might not be a bar on using them, though.
> Although the fact that 
> crocodiles lay leathery eggs, and afaik, T-Rex laid
> hard-shelled eggs 
> (not sure about this, though) might introduce
> complications.
> 
> I think there's probably a long way to go before we
> see dinosaurs 
> walking around. Lots of other things, like
> Thylacenes,  Woolly Mammoths, 
> Woolly Rhinos, etc., first.
> 
> ben
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