There would definitely be some people in the Pentagon that would try to weaponize velociraptors after seeing what they’re capable of. Dogs are used in war, and there have been attempts to use dolphins and other animals.
An animal that can go into buildings, open doors and methodically search rooms? Yeah they’d definitely be putting some DARPA money into seeing if they could be trained to go into combat situations.
argh_another_username@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
I read somewhere that if we could bring back a dinosaur, it wouldn’t survive long, because of the oxygen concentration in our atmosphere. Is it true?
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
I think that has a lot of variables. Crocodiles were on earth around 250 million years ago, the t rex around 68 million years ago. Crocodiles still breath our atmosphere.
That doesn’t mean other animals didn’t have different breathing parameters though.
otter@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Crocodiles may have also adapted over time to deal with the changes in our atmosphere, while the dino DNA would not have gone through those changes. They could handwave that problem by saying they combined it with some other DNA or modified it themselves (better hemoglobin?)
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Was curious so I tried to find historical Oxygen levels by century. With the current oxygen level being around 20.9% and decreasing to effectively 17% around a mile in altitude, (say Denver) we adapt to 4% oxygen level without death. So if dinosaurs are similar in breathing to humans, I’d say with no scientific backing beyond just speculation, they should be fine.
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webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
I may have heard a similar thing on a video that compared an elephant sized mouse with a mouse sized elephant.
Neither could survive because evolution designed their bodies for the relative pressure they exist in. This is also related to how fast their hearth beats go.
Human sized bugs could not exist for the same pressure reason also.
Disclaimer: i am as much an expert on this as are you. Source is the internet. Possibility Kurtzgesagt.
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Depends. Something from 125 to 200 millions years ago would probably struggle. Maybe you can put them on a mountain? But that’s probably too cold. But again, Jurassic Park dinosaurs are a mix of animal DNA, contemporary and older.