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Plot hole that highly respected paleontologists had no idea a dinosaur park was being built?

posted 3 years ago by RogueDemonHunter (2653)
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Apologies if this has already been discussed. I went back a few pages and couldn't see anything.

I don't know if this was better explained in the book or just something you have to accept for the entire film to work but how did Grant and Ellie literally have no idea a dinosaur theme park had been built? A couple of highly respected paleontologists and they didn't have a clue.

The sheer level of construction meant a lot of people were involved and even taking into account NDAs for the construction workers, they had to source all the scientists to work on developing the dinosaurs which would surely have raised an eyebrow within the scientific community. Not even any rumours about the island. Nothing.

[–] VanHellion (613) 3 years ago

This is an easy one (and I am sure has been answered in a more PC way).

There was no Twitter or cancerous social media in our world in 1993 so pansy-cunts that have to fart out their every move in the hopes of "going viral" and satisfying their need for attention-whoring had no way to pollute the well.

[–] Juanito (14) 3 years ago

Que lindo eres.

[–] RoboReCop (2833) 2 years ago

It just shows how departmentalized and secret the Ingen operation was. Not even "highly respected paleontologists had no idea a dinosaur park was being built."

[–] ADBruno1985 (3328) 2 years ago

Makes sense enough to me.

Remember, this was before internet was everywhere. They were 100% preoccupied with whatever dig they were on, not scouring for news of future theme parks. Because that would've been kept under wraps as well.