Hold your butts!
The co-founder of Elon Musk’s firm Neuralink says they have the technology to build a true-to-life version of “Jurassic Park.”
“We could probably build Jurassic Park if we wanted to,” Max Hodak tweeted Saturday. “They wouldn’t be genetically authentic dinosaurs, but [shrugging emoji]Maybe 15 years of breeding + engineering to get super exotic new strains. “
Hodak did not explain how his neurotechnology company would be able to revive the long-extinct prehistoric beasts, but he later defended the idea, claiming it could increase biodiversity.
“Biodiversity (anti-fragility) is certainly valuable; conservation is important and makes sense, ”Hodak tweeted. ‘But why do we stop there? Why don’t we deliberately try to generate new diversity? “
But in the 1993 movie “Jurassic Park,” based on a bestselling book published by Michael Crichton in 1990, the scientific plan goes awry.
Paleontologists who tour the island of genetically resurrected dinosaurs find themselves in T-Rex big trouble when the monsters come loose and start hunting people.
The film was the top-grossing film of its opening year and the top-grossing film ever at that time. In a memorable scene, the character Ray Arnold, played by Samuel L. Jackson, proclaims, “Hold your ass!” while activating Jurassic Park’s failing security system.
Meanwhile, last summer, Neuralink unveiled a working prototype brain implant device that its founders believe can cure everything from blindness to quadriplegia.
Musk showed an early version of the gadget he implanted in a pig and later said human trials could begin as early as 2021.