how much would you pay to see a live dinosaur?

one hundred dollars.

what kind of dinosaur?

any kind. your choice.

subquestion: how much would you pay for a domesticated pet dinosaur?

just see it? or could I pet and/ or ride it?

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500 dollars for a t-rex or brachiosaur type thing

all the money

i would pay all the money

3K for a domesticated pet velociraptor

theyre totally gonna be able to do this someday btw

dude isnt that like 72 billion dollars

how much to EAT a dinosaur?

4 dollars, maybe 4.50

$0.50

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1022/870790114_4fef18b4b2.jpg?v=0

Eat

As practising evolutionary biologists, the question that we are asked most frequently is “What does dinosaur meat taste like?” This is of course a silly question, that we cannot answer simply, as the taste varies hugely across dinosaur species.

The next most frequently asked question is “How can evolutionary biology be combined with time travel to prevent overexploitation of the worlds resources?” A casual (Farrah slack wearing) reader who is untrained in the scientific method will of course not realise that these two questions are intimately linked, and that the combined answers are at the centre of one of the greatest business opportunities this millennium.

Fact 1: Stephen Hawkings (see figure) has shown that time travel is theoretically possible.
Fact 2: Dinosaur meat provides a variety of tastes and textures suitable for the culinary needs of modern man (see Table DMHC 1).

Dinosaur species
Meat tastes like
Suggested wine

Ichthyosaurs
Tuna
Sauvignon blanc

Iguanodon
Venison
Shiraz

Diplodocus
Beef
Cabernet Sauvignon

Archaeopteryx
Cat
Pinot Noir

Stegosaurus
Chicken
Riesling

Table DMHC 1. A summary of the flavours associated with different dinosaur meat.

Fact 3: The catholic “church” has declared dinosaurs as “fish”, so in principle, their MEAT can be eaten on any day.

Fact 4: Dinosaurs go extinct anyway, so there are NO concerns about economically viable meat harvesting rates.

Clearly, all that is required is for a Dinosaur Meat Harvesting Consortium (DMHC) to build a sufficiently large time machine, allowing travel from the “futur” (which is how the word “future” will be pronounced in the “futur”) to dinosaur times. Dinosaur harvesting could then could then be carried out with the most modern and up-to-date methods, including lasers, mind control, and rodeo.

that list is pretentious as fuck, i was thinking about brachioburger & a bud light or something

One MILLION dollars!!

Archaeopteryx
Cat
Pinot Noir

^^^^^this

“futur”

hol e hit

carne where did that list come from anyway

Archaeopteryx
Cat
Pinot Noir

wat

xps

http://www.freewebs.com/superaldo/dinosaurfacts.htm

the first, intergalactic, co-evollusionary dance-based Super-Mannimal site in the Multiverse!

eh i call bullshit

Stephen Hawkings, Physicist, driving the Boston Crème "Mealchair" built for him by Sir Clive Sinclair}

looks like a shop

£27.65 (including booking fee) is my highest offer to see a live dinosaur.

The catholic “church”

^^ really want to know what conspiracy the scare quotes are suggesting

(Also want to know how to pronounce "futur" -- is it like "couture?")

foo-TOUR

I would pay more to see a Mammoth.

They could just run a few thousand volts through one of those frozen ones, see if it twitches

If i could see a range of dinosaurs, like air, grassy, bitey, watery, then definitely over €300.

Yeah definitely not all the money in the world, but probably into the hundreds.

I'd like to hear the James Horner music while this happens.

i would pay $5 per hour, forever

"i have a pretty expensive dinosaur-watching habit"

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If we ever clone dinosaurs there is going to be MAAAAAD concern trolling on cable news. I wonder if any of them will dig up a "chaostician". Maybe he could talk to Jeff Goldblum (not in character).

A lot would depend on where the dinosaur was appearing. For a small venue I would pay decent wedge, for a stadium or arena show not so much. For a one-to-one I would consider breaking open the kids' piggie banks

How much for a pet?

http://bp2.blogger.com/_bdVR-JIDi2g/RgwT26rtYKI/AAAAAAAAA8M/tfdbj6pYSFU/s400/vs.-tyrannosaur.jpg

http://bp0.blogger.com/_bdVR-JIDi2g/RgwUgartYNI/AAAAAAAAA8k/wca3AsxMU68/s400/vs.-dinosaur.jpg

"Flesh of Christ"

I would spend ALL of my DISPOSABLE INCOME for the rest of the year, ~$175.

No actually I think I'd pay $60. MAX.

I'd like to hear the James Horner music while this happens.

-- Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, August 25, 2008 6:48 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

John Williams, you mean

i would pay about 100 bucks i think.

subquestion 2:

how much would you pay for a mesozoic safari (with your safety guaranteed by super energy bubble or something) to see the beasts in their natural environment?

Also $60?

Can you genetically modify a pterodactyl to give affectionate hugs? I would pay MAD $$$ for said pterosaur.

1,500 dollars

i read this book one too many times as a kid in middle school, i think:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivers_of_Time

rrrobyn it is easy, you just get an ISLAND and put a PARK on it

everything is taken care of.....by computers!

i think i'd put the dino(s) in a wildlife park-type setting. give 'em freedom to roam a bit.

freedom to roam yeah but keep em behind super high voltage electrical fences

the visitors could view them from some kind of tram ride maybe

but there's only one way on and off this island, right, for security reasons

latebloomer actually has a dinosaur and is doing market research

he visitors could view them from some kind of tram ride maybe

-- deeznuts, Monday, August 25, 2008 10:04 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

i'm thinking......ford explorers!

ysi xp

i think this island looks like a good candidate btw
http://www.havremontreal.qc.ca/imgCommunes/enjeux/f_enjeux_10_image07_gf.jpg

possibly a little close to a metropolitan centre but i know some people in high-tech security, it'll be fine. and fun!

wtf dinosaur goes in the big SPHERE

i know, that is the thunderdome!!

for the fighters and gamblers among us

I just want to see a triceratops and tyrannosaurus fight in a swamp with crazy plants like in the 60's dinosaur book I had as a kid.

i think a triceratops would kick the shit out of a t-rex

challopsaurus

t rex had little skinny girl arms and he'd be gutted by the triceratops' horns

Can we get real here?

Any of us would give up everything we had to see a real live dinosaur!

http://www.fisher-price.com/img/product_shots/K6686_b_1.jpg

I don't think I'd pay much at all. Maybe like Bronx Zoo Admission price? It would only be cool for a few minutes and then wear off on you.

you jaded bastard

i'd like to see a triceratops and a stegosaurus team up to take out a T Rex. and would give up a nut, a lung, and a kidney to see such a thing.

stegosaurus would be fucking meat, a triceratops could do it on his own

i can't wait till science makes this stuff happen so you can see how wrong you are.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Triceratops2.png

who would fuck with this guy come on

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Human-triceratops_size_comparison.svg

fucking miracle of evolution

HIS HEAD IS A SHIELD WITH SHARP HORNS THAT ARE FOUR FEET LONG

god dammit the pics didnt post but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triceratops

What will happen if a triceratops will met a stegosaurus.

a bag of Black Forest gummi bears and a couple of Laffy Taffies.

particualrly the banana flavored ones because tehyre gross

i think a triceratops would kick the shit out of a t-rex

-- deeznuts, Tuesday, August 26, 2008 4:02 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Link

actually triceratops was t-rex's natural prey.

i'm sure triceratops gave t-rex hell though.

*viciously rears up on hind legs*

where does the triceratops v trex common battle originate from? did they find likes shit loads of trice/trex bones together or something?

(Trice would win easily)

or was it that movie?

I think it comes from top trumps!

where does the triceratops v trex common battle originate from? did they find likes shit loads of trice/trex bones together or something?

yes! they've found t-rex bite marks on triceratops skeletons and triceratops bones in fossilized t-rex dung.

So CAN I get an effectionate pterosaur or no?

effectively affectionate?
"oh pee weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"
http://www.eightball-studios.com/numbered/46.jpg

goddamit i want a dinosaur

If it's more than about $20 I think I'd wait for the video.

after that space thread i just asswumed this thread would be full of people going "ugh i wouldn't even want to see a dinosaur in the first place"

^^ i would pay no more than $1

I would rather see animals that weren't so rubbish they went extinct.

I don't think I would pay all that much to see a dinosaur, but how much would I pay to ride a dinosaur? Now that is a different story, particularly if said dinosaur were a pterodactyl.

Western or english?

goddamit i want a dinosaur

I want this one:

http://images.wikia.com/muppet/images/thumb/c/c7/BabySinclair2.JPG/300px-BabySinclair2.JPG

pillbox OTM.

When I was 20 I rode dianosaur:

http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/7026/dinosaurq.jpg

If you asked me this question when I was eight, I would say "whatever it cost!! a billion million!!!!"

Now, however, I am bound by the "fun stuff" portion of my monthly budget, so if it's over like $40 its a no go.

Maybe that's why the dinosaurs went extinct -- they just kept going around and shitting their pants about how cool everything was and never sat down and did stuff like write up budgets.

http://www.scaryforkids.com/pics/a-sound-of-thunder-01.JPG
http://www.scaryforkids.com/pics/a-sound-of-thunder-05.JPG

sound of thunder is so great