Grab your butts!
Co-founder of Elon Musk’s Neuralink firm says they have the technology to build a real version of “Jurassic Park”.
“We could probably build Jurassic Park if we wanted to,” Max Hodak said he tweeted Saturday. “They would not be genetically authentic dinosaurs, however [shrugging emoji]. Maybe 15 years of breeding + engineering to get new super exotic species. “
Hodak did not delve into how his neurotechnology company could revive extinct prehistoric beasts, but later defended the idea, saying it could increase biodiversity.
“Biodiversity (anti-fragility) is certainly valuable; conservation is important and makes sense, “Hodak tweeted.” But why do we stop here? Why don’t we try more intentionally to generate new diversity? “
But in the 1993 film “Jurassic Park,” based on a best-selling book published by Michael Crichton in 1990, the scientific plan is twisted.
Paleontologists touring the island of genetically resurrected dinosaurs run into T-Rex size problems when monsters are released and start hunting humans.
The film was the highest-grossing film of its opening year and the highest-grossing film in history. In a memorable scene, the character Ray Arnold, played by Samuel L. Jackson, proclaims, “Grab your tails!” while powering the failed Jurassic Park security system.
Meanwhile, last summer, Neuralink unveiled a working prototype of a brain implant device that the founders believe can cure from blindness to quadriplegia.
Musk showed an early version of the device he implanted in a pig, and later said human testing could begin as early as 2021.