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Posted: 31 May 2004, 05:58
by samfan
It's too bad some of that knowledge didn't transfer over to the movie Muldoon then /tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":P" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" />

Posted: 01 Jun 2004, 17:46
by maesterkilik
OMG MY CAPS R STUCK SRY WELL APPERANTLY SOME OF THAT KNOWLEGE TRANSFERED BUT NOT ALL OF IT

Posted: 01 Jul 2004, 18:03
by JPjunkie
maesterkilik wrote:Ok I was trying to figure out how malcom know about the extra animals in the park
The way Malcolm knew about the animals breeding is because of simple graph anylisis (mathmatics basically)...

See page 165 of the soft-cover version.

Malcolm talks about the curve of the graph...

A normal curve like the one they always showed the scientists, is a 'normal' or 'natural' breeding population height graph. The compy's were introduced in batches of 3 according to the book, so it should be in three different heights, which it shows.

Posted: 10 Jul 2004, 18:29
by AlphaChaosRaptor
The reason Wu didn't realize was because he is "thintelligent", to use Malcolm's words. I think it's explained in Version 4.4 that Wu considered all DNA essentially the same and therefore felt compelled to use any DNA he wanted to fill the gaps in the sequence.

On Malcolm expecting the breeding: you can go back to what Jon said. You can't control the life you create. He knew that already. He didn't actually need the graphs and statistics to figure it out. That was just his proof.

Posted: 11 Jul 2004, 21:50
by anthroarchaeo
Malcolm also pointed out that the park's computers were only checking the animals they knew existed, and weren't checking for new ones. Since the dinosaurs were breeding, the park workers had no way of knowing if animals were escaping from the island, as long as the correct number were accounted for.

Posted: 13 Jul 2004, 02:59
by AlphaChaosRaptor
Also, about Muldoon..well, that's probably my biggest gripe about the JP movie adaptation. It seems like he was dumbed down for the sake of irony (nevermind the need for another death due to missing characters and allowing Wu to live), and that never felt right to me. I prefer how he was written in the novel and early drafts of the screenplay.

Posted: 13 Jul 2004, 13:09
by maesterkilik
well wu was kinda stupid from the start for gods sake he didnt even know which dinos he was makeing

Posted: 13 Jul 2004, 19:35
by Nagisa
maesterkilik wrote:well wu was kinda stupid from the start for gods sake he didnt even know which dinos he was makeing
So tell me. How DO you identify a species of animal whose genetic information mankind has never seen before? Kinda hard to look at a random 65 myo DNA strand and conclusively state "Oh that's a Tyrannosaur."

Posted: 14 Jul 2004, 01:15
by AlphaChaosRaptor
That's not actually what was wrong with Wu in that area. It was the fact that he didn't care to know what species he was creating, and the fact that he didn't know how many he'd created, either.