Jurassic Park

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In a message dated 17/09/01 05:40:57 GMT Daylight Time, CamaroGen1@aol.com writes:


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>             I just went and saw Jurasic Park 3 today......ok movie, funny than the other,s but also lamer.....SO predictible, and the diolauge was tired...HOWEVER, the blundering, stupid wanna-be mercenaries got me thinking of ME.


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>       The problem is the TL for the larger Dinos, i mean, a raptor could be treated the same as a big human, however the skin as armor would make penetration harder, but the TL would be close.  But a .45 ACP to a T-Rex isn;t going to do shit. 
>       Other than the obvious opinion that this is all a crazy, wild idea, any ideas on TL for this?


Hmm...ME does JP. If you're prepared to ignore the complete lack of science in the basic premise it could work.

The "raptors" from JP are not, of course, velociraptors, which in reality were about half the size of the ones in the film. A closer parallel would be deinonychus (from the same family (dromaeosaurs) as velociraptor) but they don't trip off the tongue as easily.

As to their intelligence; well they were bright for dinosaurs but suffice it to say that doesn't actually mean they could open doors or out-think (even a Hollywood) human.

As to the big dinos, well how about treating them as vehicles? In fact in the book ISTR that someone uses a  anti-tank missile modified to carry anaesthetic to take out a T-Rex. 

A T-Rex weighed in at about 6 tonnes, stood 5.5 m tall and had a very small brain inside a skull 1.5 m long. You could simply elect to say that anything short of sustained fire with at least .50 has no effect (well I suppose lower cals might make it angry) because it simply can't penetrate deeply enough to hit anything vital.

Of course you could always let the cell give it some minor flesh wounds - just to give it a reason to hunt them down :)

As to the really big herbivores, apatosaurus (that's brontosaurus to all us old folks) was around 25 m long and could weigh 35 tonnes. I doubt even .50 HMG would slow it down substantially. Definately time to break out the LAW.

Hope this is helpful

Charles

"You can regale your companion if you wish with the story of the time you killed the Mexican with a short arm chin jab followed by a hand-edge chop to the Adam's apple, but this might distress her. Better stick to saying modestly at the right moment, 'I only know five ways of killing a man with a single blow."