# Jurassic Park

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Podcast: [Popcorn Science Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/popcorn-science-podcast-7320349)
Published: 2026-04-19T04:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://www.popcornscience.ca/jurassic-park/
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God creates dinosaurs, God destroys dinosaurs. God creates Man, Man destroys God. Man creates podcasts. Dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the Earth. In this episode of "Popcorn Science," discuss the 1993 film Jurassic Park Topics Science Gripes (5:30) DNA from mosquitoes = impossible. Half life is too short. Humans cannot produce lysine either, we're alright. Not "billions of strands" in a drop of blood. T-Rex, from brain casts: Good sense of smell, vision, and hearing... sitting still not a good strategy. Velociraptors: not so big, not so fast. Humans can probably outrun dinosaurs (19:15) $112k/yr. Enough for fieldwork? What do dinosaurs sound like? Mating tortoises. Science Shine (27:34) Dinosaurs related to birds, checks out. Animals fail to show up at the safari ride. Cloning is a thing, sequencing older samples produce good science Mosquitoes did exist contemporaneously with dinosaurs. Chicxulub impact described well Dinosaur gizzards / gastroliths. Sex switching does happen in some species. Chaos Theory Of it's time (40:39) What could have been James Cameron: Dark Jurassic Park Jim Carey as Malcolm? Groundbreaking CGI, but also practical effects. Clothing is firmly rooted in the 90s CRTs and floppy disks, adjusted refresh rates. "That's not what unix looks like". This was an actual unix system called IRIX running a real program called fsn ("File System Navigator for cyberspace"). 90s hacker tropes and fat shaming John Williams: Wrote the score for everything in the 70s, 80s and 90s Ratings (54:44) References Jurassic Park (1993) Amplification and sequencing of DNA from a 120–135-million-year-old weevil Chicxulub Gastrolith Chaos Theory File System Navigator

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