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Jurassic Park Setting - College Term Paper

Jurassic Park Setting

“There is a problem with that island. It is an accident waiting to happen.” (76) The reason that Hammond’s Island, Jurassic Park lasted as long as it did is all because of the setting. The three factors of Jurassic Park’s setting; the island’s location, the time that it was built, and the climate; makes the whole resort possible even though it ended up not lasting too long.
In order for Jurassic Park to have worked, the location of the Park is vitally important and selecting an isolated island off of the coast of Costa Rica proves to be a good solution in order to keep the dinosaurs secret and keep the majority of them on the island. One of Hammond’s main concerns is keeping the resort a ...

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miles offshore.’” (6) Being so far from any civilization is not just a good thing for Hammond’s privacy, but it also kept most of the dinosaurs trapped in the park and away from other islands.
The workers built Jurassic Park in the 1990s, and around that time period is the only possible times that the park could be built in order for it to work. First of all, Jurassic Park runs by supercomputers. “Very powerful supercomputers. To put it in perspective, three Crays represent more computing power than any other privately held company in America. And InGen sent the machines to Costa Rica.” (39) The first supercomputer was made in 1976, and Jurassic Park would have been impossible to have been maintained and the dinosaurs would have been impossible to make without the use of supercomputers. By 1985 it seemed possible that DNA of an extinct animal might be reconstituted, and a new animal grown; making it even possible to recreate a dinosaur (67). Before 1985, the dinosaurs in ...

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Added: 4/3/2011 12:29:00 PM
Submitted By: jessjust
Category: Book Reports
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 896
Pages: 4

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