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wryter2000

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2. My favorite science oopsie in a movie
Thu Dec 30, 2021, 05:09 PM
Dec 2021

Jurassic Park. Leave aside only one of those dinosaurs was from the Jurassic period, per Stephen Jay Gould.

At the beginning, the animated video that explains how they created the dinosaurs from the DNA in insects trapped in amber, they say that where something was missing in the DNA they substituted frog DNA. Frog? Really? Frogs aren't remotely related to dinosaurs.

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How do movies fail like this? hunter Dec 2021 #1
My favorite science oopsie in a movie wryter2000 Dec 2021 #2
You're right. Lionel Mandrake Jan 2022 #3
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