Dinosaur Systems

[Laka Strolistandiler]

I’d rather say that given some of dinosaurs supposedly having amazingly good smelling senses they could be used to replace K-9 units in some environments. Intelligent species could also be used for other tasks which IRL are done by animals. Also Dino riders because what 3rd world El Presidente would not want his honor guard to ride on freaking dinosaurs?

Would it be worth it to bid in the millions for them though? Or only for a substantially discounted price?

Millions for a single one or for multiple? K-9 units are already expensive- an explosive detection expert dog “costs” the US Army around 150 grand.

[Ethel mermania]

Yes, the lasers will be relevant to the equation.

the lasers would be non-lethal, just combat signallers to help guide the dinosaurs... but they can still be commanded to a lesser extent without them

Say if the Romans had a large number of these free lasers but didn't rely on them

Where did they get them from?

[Infected Mushroom]

the lasers would be non-lethal, just combat signallers to help guide the dinosaurs... but they can still be commanded to a lesser extent without them

Say if the Romans had a large number of these free lasers but didn't rely on them

Where did they get them from?

I don't know. It's just a thought experiment. A slight bit of aside.

[Countesia]

Scientists believe that the Tyrannosaurus rex had the largest olfactory regions of most dinosaurs.

I'd purchase young individuals, and make sure they're raised around humans and kept well fed and utilise them as drug sniffers in place of dogs. Watch drug smuggling through airports drop to zero. Try smuggling cocaine when you've got to pass through the sniffer tyrannosaurus.

[Krasny-Volny]

The logistics of trying to transport, house, and feed them after I buy the dinosaurs in this hypothetical will probably cost about what I paid. And there's no guarantee I'll find a buyer - outside of maybe private exotic zoos in Dubai. '

Selling conventional arms to shady characters is both more profitable and more secure.

[Abarri]

I'd go with option 2.

These dinosaurs could bring high maintenance cost, and they might...reproduce rapidly?

Not my idea of bioweaponry.


...what is up with this?

Anglosphere gang, sorry. Murica and all.

Bit of a harmless joke about the French

Ah, I see. I saw the same trope in another NSer's OOC page.

Scientists believe that the Tyrannosaurus rex had the largest olfactory regions of most dinosaurs.

I'd purchase young individuals, and make sure they're raised around humans and kept well fed and utilise them as drug sniffers in place of dogs. Watch drug smuggling through airports drop to zero. Try smuggling cocaine when you've got to pass through the sniffer tyrannosaurus.

Stupid me suddenly thought, "what if the T. rex snorts the stuff?!" For a moment, I forgot those are in sachets...They do use sachets for illegal substances, right?

Velociraptors with battle armour. Discuss.

Can they be ridden on like horses?

Why do I have a feeling that I have seen a movie with velociraptors like these?

[Infected Mushroom]

The logistics of trying to transport, house, and feed them after I buy the dinosaurs in this hypothetical will probably cost about what I paid. And there's no guarantee I'll find a buyer - outside of maybe private exotic zoos in Dubai. '

Selling conventional arms to shady characters is both more profitable and more secure.

I think that’s a fair analysis.

[Adamede]

This has probably been said before but you do realzie that dinosaurs are just animals, not monsters right?

Maybe a thousand years agao a Triceratops would be a good war animal like elephants are, but just like we dont still ride elephants into battle in the 21st centuey because any modern weapon system would kill them very easily, the same would be for dinosaurs. Doesnt matter how much genetic editing or enhancements they have.

Add on top of that the fact that any non-avian dinosaurs youd have would be wild animals, not domesticated or semi-domesticated.

[The Blaatschapen]

Velociraptors with battle armour. Discuss.

Untrained.

So if you let them loose, they will go for the nearest target.

You.

[Kerwa]

Why stop at dinosaurs though? Why not dragons? That would be even cooler.

[Countesia]

Why stop at dinosaurs though? Why not dragons? That would be even cooler.

OP is implying they are cloned in a similar way to the method used in Jurassic Park. Dragons have never existed, or at least we haven't found their fossils.

[Heloin]

Hannibal crossing the alps with laser pointers is not as exciting as you think it would be.

Would he still use the Alps? Or would he alter his strategy and use flat terrain since he has dinosaurs?

Would they be relevant against arrows and swords?

Either you think the failure of war elephants means a larger wild animal would change anything or you think laser pointers can stop arrows and both are funny for different reasons.

[Heloin]

Velociraptors with battle armour. Discuss.

Untrained.

So if you let them loose, they will go for the nearest target.

You.

https://youtu.be/EGWT5JMl3ns

[Space Squid]

Pachycephalosaurus comes pre-packaged with it's own helmet.

[Hamidiye]

How high do you have to be to propose cloning dinosaurs as weapons of war?

[Infected Mushroom]

How high do you have to be to propose cloning dinosaurs as weapons of war?

As high as the writers of Jurassic Park

It was a glorious movie in its sheer level of ludicrousness.

[Torisakia]

Option 1. As with having these dinosaurs it is one step closer to fulfilling my ideology that advocates for the Earth to return to the Mesozoic era and for dinosaurs to rule the planet once again, also known as "Mesogogism".

[Space Squid]

Option 1. As with having these dinosaurs it is one step closer to fulfilling my ideology that advocates for the Earth to return to the Mesozoic era and for dinosaurs to rule the planet once again, also known as "Mesogogism".

I mean, obviously it's always better to have a dinosaur than to not. You never know when it will come in handy.

[The Blaatschapen]

Option 1. As with having these dinosaurs it is one step closer to fulfilling my ideology that advocates for the Earth to return to the Mesozoic era and for dinosaurs to rule the planet once again, also known as "Mesogogism".

They'll have two capitals.

One in southern Mexico, and one in Iraq.


Mesoamerica and Mesopotamia respectively.

[Emotional Support Crocodile]

Option 1. As with having these dinosaurs it is one step closer to fulfilling my ideology that advocates for the Earth to return to the Mesozoic era and for dinosaurs to rule the planet once again, also known as "Mesogogism".

Well there are three chickens to every person already.

[The Archregimancy]

I feel dinosaurs are a bit too modern for me.

What we really need to do is bring back species wiped out by the Permian extinction. Imagine an army of dimetrodons supplemented by a marine force of massed trilobites - that would really be something.

[USS Monitor]

Can I buy the dinosaurs and use them for something other than combat? Cos dinosaurs are cool and I'm sure there are ways to get good use out of them, but using them in combat does not seem like the best use.

[Infected Mushroom]

Can I buy the dinosaurs and use them for something other than combat? Cos dinosaurs are cool and I'm sure there are ways to get good use out of them, but using them in combat does not seem like the best use.

Like what? To sell to a zoo?

[Space Squid]

Can I buy the dinosaurs and use them for something other than combat? Cos dinosaurs are cool and I'm sure there are ways to get good use out of them, but using them in combat does not seem like the best use.

"For the seventh year in a row, there were no survivors at the annual Running of the Triceratops."

[Free Ravensburg]

Velociraptors with battle armour. Discuss.

Show idea.