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A velociraptor skeleton is worth around $10 million. Hatch a few dozen per year and you’re making great money.
by fontain 5mo ago
A velociraptor skeleton is worth around $10 million. Hatch a few dozen per year and you’re making great money.
- onion2k 5mo ago[Colossal Biosciences] has raised over $600 million and carries a valuation exceeding $10 billion. You're not making a return on that from selling velocirator skeletons. Nor is that sort of money in dodos and maos. Human cloning on the other hand...
- fragmede 5mo agoIt's been a while since high school biology class, and I can't ask my sister right now, but I don't think humans are born in eggs. What does an artificial egg hatching chickens have to do with cloning humans?
- himata4113 5mo agoTechnically speaking, we could engineer it in a way where humans are born from eggs. It would just have to be a very big egg and would also have to continue growing in an incubator after hatching much like chickens rather than the standard womb senario. ... probably just easier to grow babies in a tube
- margalabargala 5mo agoArguably humans are born from large, soft-shelled, ambulatory eggs.
- NopIdoN 5mo agoewww eggs with legs
- stavros 5mo agoI mean, if you can make a velociraptor, the skeleton isn't the bit you'll make money on.
- bot403 5mo agoAnd I feel like lab grown Velociraptor skeletons aren't going to fetch $10 million. Rarity and something new to study is part of the value.
- stavros 5mo agoYeah. Imagine how much you can make on live velociraptors.
- mauvehaus 5mo agoSurely the rarity is partially due to the velociraptor skeleton cartel limiting the supply. And really, a velociraptor skeleton wasn't even a traditional engagement gift until they created the demand for it with that advertising campaign back in the day.
- ProblemFactory 5mo agoHow about a theme park? With velociraptors and other jurassic era animals?
- jurgenburgen 5mo agoI would pay money for that, it would give Disney a run for their money. Throw in some woolly mammoths and sabertooth tigers as well.
- MagicMoonlight 5mo agoDisney makes more from theme parks than from everything else combined. Dinosaurs would be better than anything Disney has ever made.
- marcosdumay 5mo agoYou can have that kind of revenue cloning cows and horses. Easily so. A bit harder for chickens, but it's possible. But I fail to see how cloning humans would get it.