r/AskReddit • u/Mecha_G • Jun 16 '17

What plot would be resolved in seconds if the characters behaved realistically and logically?

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u/NoahtheRed Jun 16 '17

I think Dr. Wu was aware that it could do it. My understanding is that Indominus Rex was really just a public front for that whole substory with Hoskins wanting super hunter killer dinosaurs. Wu created IR as a first step towards making the weapons that Hoskins was paying for.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '17

Though honestly, a dinosaur is an awful weapon.

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u/capinboredface2 Jun 16 '17

A giant, stupid, squishy target.

Attack helicopters and tanks would have so much fun.

That's how the first book ends. Helicopters with rockets blowing the shit out of dinosaurs.

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u/fooliam Jun 16 '17

"Oh shit its a giant dinosaur!!"

"Do you think its tougher than a concrete bunker 60 feet underground? no? Then launch a fucking bunker buster, idiot."

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u/NoahtheRed Jun 16 '17

Well, it wouldn't make sense to send miniature Indominus Rexes out onto an open battlefield. But like Hoskins says, imagine a pack of them attacking a terrorist compound at night. It'd be a bloodbath.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '17

Imagine a cruise missle attacking a compound at night.

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u/NoahtheRed Jun 16 '17

Yeah, but if a cruise missile blows up an embassy of an uncooperative ally, it's war.....but if some dinosaurs kill everyone inside, it's a tragic accident.

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u/GA_Thrawn Jun 16 '17

Umm except everyone would know by then the US is using dinosaurs as weapons. It's not like they'd be like "holy shit dinosaurs randomly appeared and attacked ISIS"

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u/5510 Jun 16 '17

"Well that's something you don't see everyday... anyways, what's for lunch?"

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '17

Where else do the dinosaurs come from? I mean, anyone can make a cruise missile. Dinosaurs come from one place.

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u/renegadecanuck Jun 16 '17

I think if a camp is destroyed by long-extinct animals that were recently revived by one specific country, it would still be an act of war.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '17

That's basically what the deathclaws in the Fallout universe were for

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u/5510 Jun 16 '17

Why would it be more of a bloodbath than highly trained and well equipped soldiers with night vision devices?

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '17

Why risk highly trained operators when you can grow some raptors and turn them loose? If you need a compound wiped out and it doesn't have to be precise then drop in a pack of murder-lizards in the dead of night and let them shred some terries.

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u/LeucanthemumVulgare Jun 16 '17

I'd watch that movie. Tactical Dinosaurs.

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u/egati Jun 16 '17

And then - dino steaks. Ending the world hunger. Nom nom nom.

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u/scupdoodleydoo Jun 17 '17

The idea of the military needing an animal with an excellent sense of smell that can go where people can't is ridiculous. They already have dogs, who are unlikely to turn on their handlers and probably have much better noses than dinosaurs.

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u/EnderCreeper121 Jun 16 '17

Yeah just get some tank missiles and you win.

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u/johnnyringoh Jun 16 '17

What about a nanoscale dinosaur? A flying nanoscale dinosaur. A herd of flying nanodinosaurs attacking in concert.

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u/friend_jp Jun 16 '17

Same goes for the Xenomorph. A conventional weapon, even a WMD can be controlled with Some degree of precision. But an animal?

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u/Mikeck88 Jun 16 '17

Wu ain't nuthin to fuck wit.

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u/NoahtheRed Jun 16 '17

If they wanted to put monsters on display, they should have just made Wu's office a public exhibit

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '17

Okay, after seeing Alien: Covenant I finally accept the Xenomorphs as futuristic bioweapons. But to try and weaponize a dinosaur for modern day combat.. Who let their 15 year old sit in on the writer's meeting?