The most delicious dinosaur

[AcetheSuperVillain]

So all of a sudden, you're a world renowned Geneticist who has been hired to bring a species of Dinosaur back to life for the purpose of raising it as livestock to feed people. Your funding is limited, so you can only pick 1 species of dinosaur to revive for farming.

Which dinosaur do you think will be the most delicious and why?

For my answer, I'll go with an Ankylosaur (probably Euoplocephalus because I think we have the most DNA available for them). I figure, the reason they need all of that armor is because they taste exceedingly delicious. Same is true for lobsters. Hopefully, their armor will not protect them from guns or electric shocks or whatever people use to put down livestock these days.

[Profanity]

Impossible. DNA has a half-life of around 500 years, meaning that it's been millions of years since the last remaining Dinosaur alleles have disintegrated.

[Entice]

Cattle is put down with a tool that shoots a bolt into their brain IIRC

Diplodocus because they're big and produce an ample supply of meats

[Slacker013]

Apparently you've never had reptile... it's a fishy after taste!

[Misanthrum]

At 10/9/13 03:17 PM, AcetheSuperVillain wrote: Your funding is limited, so you can only pick 1 species of dinosaur to revive for farming.

I think you meant Unlimited**

[Entice]

At 10/9/13 03:19 PM, Profanity wrote: Impossible. DNA has a half-life of around 500 years, meaning that it's been millions of years since the last remaining Dinosaur alleles have disintegrated.

wow another smart ass that thinks he's clever for dodging the topic of the thread

I bet when girls try to flirt you correct them in a matter of a fact because you hate yourself and feel the need to prove your intelligence since you have no other likable qualities

but who am I kidding, being a smartass was never a likable quality in the first place and girls don't try to flirt with you anymore

[AcetheSuperVillain]

At 10/9/13 03:19 PM, Profanity wrote: Impossible. DNA has a half-life of around 500 years, meaning that it's been millions of years since the last remaining Dinosaur alleles have disintegrated.

Or so they thought once, but they have actually found intact soft tissue inside dinosaur bones.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/dinosaur.html
http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geology/soft-tissue-dinosaur-fossil.htm

My understanding is that the DNA they do find is still incomplete, so you are better off using very common dinosaurs like Triceratops or Euoplocephalus, which are known by hundreds of specimens, rather than T-Rex or Parasaurolophus which are known by a dozen or so. As in the movie, Jurassic Park, scientists would probably have to fill in DNA gaps with close living relatives like crocodillians or birds.

[Viper]

I'd go with the T-rex. Dunno why.

also Dinosaur Jr.

[AcetheSuperVillain]

At 10/9/13 03:21 PM, Slacker013 wrote: Apparently you've never had reptile... it's a fishy after taste!

Actually I LOVE gator nuggets and it's been a while since I ate snake, but I remember it tasting okay. And these days it's assumed that dinosaurs were closer to birds, which we do like to eat, although I thought ostrich meat was kind of a let-down.

Either way, I think most people kind of assume that dinosaurs would taste great if you could ever catch one.

[Slacker013]

At 10/9/13 03:31 PM, AcetheSuperVillain wrote:

Actually I LOVE gator nuggets and it's been a while since I ate snake, but I remember it tasting okay. And these days it's assumed that dinosaurs were closer to birds, which we do like to eat, although I thought ostrich meat was kind of a let-down.

Either way, I think most people kind of assume that dinosaurs would taste great if you could ever catch one.

I believe birds are closer to reptiles... unless you believe the theory of evolution works backwards.

[Profanity]

At 10/9/13 03:27 PM, AcetheSuperVillain wrote: Or so they thought once, but they have actually found intact soft tissue inside dinosaur bones
My understanding is that the DNA they do find is still incomplete, so you are better off using very common dinosaurs like Triceratops or Euoplocephalus, which are known by hundreds of specimens, rather than T-Rex or Parasaurolophus which are known by a dozen or so. As in the movie, Jurassic Park, scientists would probably have to fill in DNA gaps with close living relatives like crocodillians or birds.

There is barely enough DNA to clone Neanderthals and Mammoths without filling in the gaps with living relatives (George Church, Harvard). There is no way in hell you will get enough genetic material from a random cut of soft tissue that may have been preserved somehow.

At 10/9/13 03:23 PM, Shibe wrote: wow another smart ass that thinks he's clever for dodging the topic of the thread

I bet when girls try to flirt you correct them in a matter of a fact because you hate yourself and feel the need to prove your intelligence since you have no other likable qualities

but who am I kidding, being a smartass was never a likable quality in the first place and girls don't try to flirt with you anymore

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...because its impossible to act differently with girls I'm going to fuck and random dudes on the Internet, right? No, sorry I'm not some brain damaged moron who has trouble differentiating between men and women.​​​​​​​​

[Entice]

At 10/9/13 03:47 PM, Profanity wrote: ...because its impossible to act differently with girls I'm going to fuck and random dudes on the Internet, right? No, sorry I'm not some brain damaged moron who has trouble differentiating between men and women.​​​​​​​​

wow man really cool bragging about how much you fuck girls and aren't socially awkward
As if you'd need to say that if you weren't

[AcetheSuperVillain]

At 10/9/13 03:47 PM, Profanity wrote:

At 10/9/13 03:27 PM, AcetheSuperVillain wrote: Or so they thought once, but they have actually found intact soft tissue inside dinosaur bones
My understanding is that the DNA they do find is still incomplete, so you are better off using very common dinosaurs like Triceratops or Euoplocephalus, which are known by hundreds of specimens, rather than T-Rex or Parasaurolophus which are known by a dozen or so. As in the movie, Jurassic Park, scientists would probably have to fill in DNA gaps with close living relatives like crocodillians or birds.

There is barely enough DNA to clone Neanderthals and Mammoths without filling in the gaps with living relatives (George Church, Harvard). There is no way in hell you will get enough genetic material from a random cut of soft tissue that may have been preserved somehow.

Which is exactly why I said so. You can get hundreds of random cuts of soft tissue from a triceratops, because there are hundreds of Triceratops fossils. Way to read, fuckface.

[Viper]

At 10/9/13 03:31 PM, AcetheSuperVillain wrote: And these days it's assumed that dinosaurs were closer to birds, which we do like to eat, although I thought ostrich meat was kind of a let-down.

Well the closet living relative to the T-rex is the chicken.
So I'd imagine that'd taste like chicken but more...scaly.

[Boomstick]

Maybe one of the Avian dinosaurs would taste good, probably a bit gamey.

[Profanity]

At 10/9/13 03:51 PM, AcetheSuperVillain wrote: Which is exactly why I said so. You can get hundreds of random cuts of soft tissue from a triceratops, because there are hundreds of Triceratops fossils. Way to read, fuckface.

Are you any better with metaphors than you are with Biology? You're going to have this fantasy geneticist rebuild the "Seven Wonders of the World" using three or four puzzle pieces from a "Seven Wonders jigsaw puzzle" and a whole bunch of jigsaw pieces from a huge collection of modern architecture puzzles. What's he going to do next? Squeeze a live elephant through the eye of a needle?

[KillerSkull]

Pterodactyl is the chicken of dinosaurs.

[AcetheSuperVillain]

At 10/9/13 04:09 PM, Profanity wrote: Are you any better with metaphors than you are with Biology? You're going to have this fantasy geneticist rebuild the "Seven Wonders of the World" using three or four puzzle pieces from a "Seven Wonders jigsaw puzzle" and a whole bunch of jigsaw pieces from a huge collection of modern architecture puzzles. What's he going to do next? Squeeze a live elephant through the eye of a needle?

You're underestimating the power of genetic engineering, and you're clearly just being a nay-sayer for the sake of nay-saying. If someone asked you a decade before spider-goats were invented, you'd have said spider-goats were impossible, but wake up and smell the BioSteel, they really exist.

The human race will go nowhere without its imagination.

[GACBassPlayer]

At 10/9/13 03:19 PM, Profanity wrote: Impossible. DNA has a half-life of around 500 years, meaning that it's been millions of years since the last remaining Dinosaur alleles have disintegrated.

You're overlooking the preservative powers of tree sap.

[Viper]

At 10/9/13 07:13 PM, AcetheSuperVillain wrote: If someone asked you a decade before spider-goats were invented, you'd have said spider-goats were impossible, but wake up and smell the BioSteel, they really exist.

The fuck? I had to look that up to sure you weren't pulling a fast one with that and it's actually legit o.O

[JRob]

And for some strange reason, I now wonder what @stafffighter tastes like.

[Viper]

At 10/9/13 09:48 PM, JRob wrote: And for some strange reason, I now wonder what @stafffighter tastes like.

I always figured he'd taste like some weird freaky humanoid lizard monster.

[stafffighter]

At 10/9/13 09:57 PM, Viper50 wrote:

At 10/9/13 09:48 PM, JRob wrote: And for some strange reason, I now wonder what @stafffighter tastes like.

I always figured he'd taste like some weird freaky humanoid lizard monster.

That is what I've been told, ladies.........

[JRob]

At 10/9/13 10:07 PM, stafffighter wrote:

At 10/9/13 09:57 PM, Viper50 wrote:

At 10/9/13 09:48 PM, JRob wrote: And for some strange reason, I now wonder what @stafffighter tastes like.

I always figured he'd taste like some weird freaky humanoid lizard monster.

That is what I've been told, ladies.........

LADIES!?!?!?

Start up the grill guys - we have a dinosaur to eat.

[darkjam]

I'm a big fan of the T-Rexes. They be like, so chickeny! How do they do it?

[vannila-guerilla]

At 10/10/13 09:01 AM, darkjam wrote: I'm a big fan of the T-Rexes. They be like, so chickeny! How do they do it?

This was my answer. Just pretend I said it.

[Emerl18]

I wouldn't take the job. I would refuse to be the one responsible for bringing the most powerful class of reptiles to their knees as food-slaves for the human population.

[Gimmick]

The one that tastes the most like chicken, obviously.

[Sense-Offender]

I heard it's believed the T-Rex would have been riddled with parasites. Not good eating there. Plus, they're giant fucking monsters. You'd be an asshole to bring those things into the modern world. How about ornithomimosaurs? They had no teeth and they probably had some good meat on them. Big ol' drumsticks.

At 10/9/13 07:29 PM, Viper50 wrote:

At 10/9/13 07:13 PM, AcetheSuperVillain wrote: If someone asked you a decade before spider-goats were invented, you'd have said spider-goats were impossible, but wake up and smell the BioSteel, they really exist.

The fuck? I had to look that up to sure you weren't pulling a fast one with that and it's actually legit o.O

Ah, yeah. I read about that on Cracked. Glow in the dark monkeys, too, and cows with human genes.

[Viper]

At 10/10/13 12:57 PM, Sense-Offender wrote: Glow in the dark monkeys, too

What kind of monkeys? Like Spider Monkeys? I'd want a glow in the dark Spider Monkey.

and cows with human genes.

We already had those. They're called people who live in Wisconsin.
I guess they loved cheese a little too much....

not trying to offend Wisconsinites or whatever people from Wisconsin are called. just making a joke.