Elon Musk is on board with the idea of having a real-life Jurassic Park. While he didn’t offer to fund the idea himself, he is hoping that someone else will. His promotion of the idea has garnered a lot of attention from other users, both in favor of and against the concept.
Elon Musk shares his take on the idea of a Jurassic Park startup
On March 5, Nikita Bier, X’s Head of Product, took to the platform where he posted the logo of the iconic Jurassic Park movie. He captioned it, “I feel like this startup idea is fundable now.” Later in the day, Elon Musk reposted Bier’s post and captioned it, “I hope someone makes this work!”
The post has gone viral, amassing more than 43 million views at the time of writing. Several users have supported the idea. One user replied, “You are the someone. So you can definitely make it work.”
A second user commented, “If anyone can do it, you can, Elon. You have the resources & the connections. And if you need someone to do the legwork of connecting people, let me know.”
A third user wrote, “It sounds more fun than launching rockets. You’ve got to admit.” “All I ask is for scientists to only make land dinosaurs and not flying or aquatic dinosaurs cuz those are the ones to actually be afraid of lol,” hoped another.
Response was not all positive, though. Some users have also said that it could be a bad idea, reminding how Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park movies ended. One user responded, “Those 6 movies were full of warnings! ‘Life finds a way’ was supposed to be a threat, not a pitch deck tagline.”
Another user said, “Everyone wants Jurassic Park until the fences go down. The problem was never the technology. It was the humans running the park.”
On paper, the idea of bringing back the dinosaurs seems tempting, and it has been floated a couple of times in the last few decades. In reality, however, the process is nearly impossible due to damaged fossils and a lack of DNA samples to bring back the multi-million-year-old species. However, some organizations, like Colossal Biosciences, have been working on de-extincting more recently extinct species.
The official X account of that organization also commented on Musk’s post. It said, “Can’t bring back dinosaurs, but we’re de-extincting other species like the dire wolf, moa, dodo, thylacine, and woolly mammoth.”
