Since the release of the movie “Jurassic Park” in 1993, many people have asked themselves a question over time: would it be possible to build a park like the one in the famous franchise and bring these prehistoric creatures to life?
Hosts Ángel Colomé, Fer Delgado and Miguel Delgado of the Territorio Revival podcast explored this possibility and suggested how much money and what it would take to bring this Jurassic Park to real life.
What does it take for a dinosaur to come back to life?
The first obstacle is reviving an extinct animal. From a conservation and environmental perspective, this could be beneficial in ensuring the permanence on Earth of an extinct species. However, would it be of any commercial interest? The answer is yes, especially if we are talking about dinosaurs from the Cretaceous period.
In “Jurassic Park,” InGen scientists revived dinosaurs using complex genetic engineering techniques. They extracted DNA from mosquitoes trapped in fossilized amber and reassembled the genetic sequence. But this process is neither easy nor cheap. While it could be achieved, it would be a multi-million dollar investment.
It would take a research and husbandry budget that includes geneticists, paleontologists, computer engineers, and animal caretakers ($32 million a day, amounting to $11 billion a year).
Just the excavation to obtain the dinosaur DNA would cost 9 million dollars and the process of cloning the dinosaurs another 8.5 million dollars (based on the cost of a company that is really dedicated to cloning dogs, but not forgetting that cloning of an extinct species will be much more complicated).
How much money would it take to build an amusement park like the one in ‘Jurassic Park’?
Maintaining a park with live dinosaurs would be more expensive than creating them in the first place, as they require food, care, vets, etc., which would cost about $200 million a year.
Costs include: facilities, cages, electric fences, electric vehicles (that would only be $1.5 billion).
Location would be crucial. Countries such as the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Colombia or Russia could be options, with Eastern European countries being more favorable for initial investment.
The podcasters suggest buying islands similar to those of Nublar and Sorna, for a total of $10 billion.
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In addition, lawyers will have to deal with potential legal and ethical issues ($8 million).
Just opening the park would cost $24 billion and $12 billion each year.
All of this adds up to nearly $60 billion and, obviously, the investment won’t be recouped either, not to mention that transportation to this island would have to be done by helicopter, which would also increase the cost to visitors.
In short, although the concept of a park like ‘Jurassic Park’ is exciting, its economic and scientific viability remains a challenge. But who knows, maybe one day we’ll see dinosaurs roaming a prehistoric park, because science and imagination always amaze us.
Source: univision
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