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The dinosaurs lived in an incomprehensibly different world. From the food and nutrition to the very air they were breathing which we only have vague ideas about. That means the first several generations at the very least would suffer and die from various nutrition, toxicity and environment issues. Even after all that got figured out the dinosaurs would likely have be confined to some small controlled environment right down to the air they breath because this is not the world they are evolved to exist in. Humans can't even figure out how to keep many currently living species alive in captivity and we can study them in the wild.

Basically if we bring back dinosaurs it will be to torture them for our amusement and curiosity. Even if unintentional. The movies make us think Jurassic Park but the reality would be more like a slaughter house or medical experiment lab. The movie wouldn't be exciting if every scene was the same as that sick triceratops. Its actually hilarious if you think up a version of the movie in your head where they just walk around watching animals dying and laboring to breath.

"they're hunting us!"

"lol JK you should have seen your face. No they would pass out after two steps if they tried to chase us. We have to feed them through tubes because they don't even have the energy to chew"

parent citizenpaul 3 years ago

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