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Post by simon darkshade on Feb 21, 2021 16:36:57 GMT
Whilst I know that your focus is the Philippines forces here, I really can’t see them having to confront the situation on their own nor be forced to the point of needing to improvise depth charges. The Americans would have forces in the area very quickly, just as we’d deploy ships if there was a situation like this in the Solomons or South Pacific.
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Post by gillan1220 on Feb 21, 2021 16:50:15 GMT
Whilst I know that your focus is the Philippines forces here, I really can’t see them having to confront the situation on their own nor be forced to the point of needing to improvise depth charges. The Americans would have forces in the area very quickly, just as we’d deploy ships if there was a situation like this in the Solomons or South Pacific. That would be lucky if there was a visiting U.S. Navy warship nearby. If we set this in June 2018 concurrent with Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom's release, the USS Ronald Reagan was nearby. I remember also the time when USS Forth Worth visited Cebu in August 2016 and USS Coronado in June 2017. I guess the Mosasaur would finally be something these Freedom-class and Independence-class LCS be worth spending on, considering in OTL it has been described as expensive failures to the point the USN is purchasing Italian frigates for the littoral combat role. |
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Post by stevep on Feb 22, 2021 15:58:56 GMT
There is no real need for a chain gun to take down a T-Rex, nor even an M2 as cited on AH.com. The bloke was right about going for the hips as compared to the head. Overall, not a big threat based on the film and nothing needing a mass military reaction. Land based dinosaurs of a large size would quickly get tracked down; makeshift depth charges aren’t that difficult to improvise. However, the aquatic dinos wouldn’t necessarily stick around in territorial waters just waiting for it. The problem for my country would be the Compies which would spread like rats and take over the local population of rodents or civet cats. The compies would pose a problem towards poultry and livestock. God forbid, they may even sneak up into children's rooms at night just like in the book. But I guess local hunters would have fun hunting them down with air guns or improvised PVC guns. The Most Disturbing Death Scene In Jurassic Park History - Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park For the Mosasaur problem, some unlucky fishermen may be caught by it. There will also be closures of beaches around the Philippines as people would be terrified of swimming where it might be close by. However, some of the islands of the Visayas divided by straights would be easier for the Philippine Navy or the Coast Guard to track down the reptile.
Must admit I can understand why that scene never made the film. It would be very difficult to show any details without giving it a high age rating and would be likely to cause a lot of outrage.
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Post by stevep on Feb 22, 2021 16:01:29 GMT
I’ve just read a short bit on one of the follow up short films after the last JP picture and that brings up one big, big issue: How in the heck does one dinosaur outbreak of a few dozen cloned creatures in California, of all places, not result in them being tracked down and killed off very, very quickly? Also, how are they managing to breed in a manner so fast that if the Casanova of all rabbits thought about it, he would need a powder and a good lie down at the sheer thought of it all?! As such, unless something majorly different happens, it will be a threat of a few dozen or few hundred specimens of the little fellows. That is something that would just need shotguns, trapping and other successful methods used against similar pests in the past. It wouldn’t take as long with modern technology either. The key would be to crack down on them early and not allow escape. Mososaurs are a bit different, but surely the film series did not feature more than one? Even with the magic frog DNA that let them handwave the breeding issue, they would still need more than one creature. Presuming there is a pair and they escape, that is two dinos in a big ocean and not a lot of large food for them.
That was the bit I found [even more] unrealistic as well. Especially when your talking about dinos of that size. Smaller ones that could hide and basically became a pest, possibly threatening people in number if they grown a bit but even they might well be hunted down.
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Post by gillan1220 on Feb 22, 2021 16:02:35 GMT
The problem for my country would be the Compies which would spread like rats and take over the local population of rodents or civet cats. The compies would pose a problem towards poultry and livestock. God forbid, they may even sneak up into children's rooms at night just like in the book. But I guess local hunters would have fun hunting them down with air guns or improvised PVC guns. The Most Disturbing Death Scene In Jurassic Park History - Michael Crichton's Jurassic ParkFor the Mosasaur problem, some unlucky fishermen may be caught by it. There will also be closures of beaches around the Philippines as people would be terrified of swimming where it might be close by. However, some of the islands of the Visayas divided by straights would be easier for the Philippine Navy or the Coast Guard to track down the reptile.
Must admit I can understand why that scene never made the film. It would be very difficult to show any details without giving it a high age rating and would be likely to cause a lot of outrage.
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Post by simon darkshade on Feb 22, 2021 16:04:49 GMT
Of course. In the process, they would alienate/cut off a large part of their general target market. Good films and film makers don’t need to deal in shocks, as they can build up threat, emotion and atmosphere far more effectively.
After thinking about it further, the only real dinosaur threat that could come from a breakout is if there were several thousand Velociraptors. They are the right size, capacity and intelligence to really spoil your day, but aren’t so big as to be easy to find.
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Post by gillan1220 on Feb 23, 2021 12:29:54 GMT
After thinking about it further, the only real dinosaur threat that could come from a breakout is if there were several thousand Velociraptors. They are the right size, capacity and intelligence to really spoil your day, but aren’t so big as to be easy to find. Or carnivores of similar sizes such as the Deinonychus, Dilphosaurus, and Troodon. |
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