For the rest of July, we will be taking a look at the Jurassic Park films, mainly Jurassic Park and Jurassic World. We will be discussing the films in detail, so spoilers are possible but will be kept to a minimum.
Last week, we looked at some of the conflicts in the Jurassic Park stories; conflict is good for narratives, but it isn’t necessarily at the heart of science. Collaboration is at least as crucial, probably more so. A diversity of interests and non-overlapping priorities can be useful for refining ideas and keeping things balanced, but it is hard to build anything out of conflict. If you want to, say, send a probe on a journey of 9 years and 3 billion miles, you need a lot of people to work together; the same applies to studying 2 billion years of biology or populating a theme park with extinct dinosaurs.
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