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Jurassic Park was wrong?!?!

Eriathiel

Eriathiel

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This is completely silly, but I was just watching the movie Jurassic Park on TV and they mentioned that one of the dinosaurs was "poisonous" - that it spit the "poison" at its prey to blind it.

So of course I'm sitting there going, its not poison, its venom. Venomous you idiots!

Of course I could be wrong - I don't know where spitting comes into poison / venom debate... but I would say venom.

Either way, Jurassic Park is still a great movie!
 
i'm not sure if i remember correctly, but in jurassic park, didn't the substance in question just have to come in contact with skin?

i recall remembering that venom has to be injected or enter the body through some point such as the eyes or cut in the skin if not by being bitten....

so poison may be the correct term?
 
Msskellington said:
i'm not sure if i remember correctly, but in jurassic park, didn't the substance in question just have to come in contact with skin?

i recall remembering that venom has to be injected or enter the body through some point such as the eyes or cut in the skin if not by being bitten....

so poison may be the correct term?
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In the movie it said that the dinosaur was aiming specifically for the eyes - which is as you said venom, so I think that it would be venomous. When the dinosaur spit on the one character (Newman from Seinfeld) it didn't affect him until it hit him in the eyes...

I'd be interested to see what other people have to say though!
 
There was no such dinosaur, Dilophosaurus was incapable of spitting anything, let alone venom. He was a small-medium sized predator,
http://www.cmstudio.com/dilophosaurus.html

I was really into Dino's as a kid and I was always angry with the creators of the movies... I always called the dino's there stuff like "Doesn't-exist-isaurus" or "Never-was-and-never-will-be-saurus".

Anyways, most of the things there weren't based. The last movie in particular annoyed the daylights out of me.
 
Kokopelli said:
There was no such dinosaur, Dilophosaurus was incapable of spitting anything, let alone venom. He was a small-medium sized predator,
http://www.cmstudio.com/dilophosaurus.html

I was really into Dino's as a kid and I was always angry with the creators of the movies... I always called the dino's there stuff like "Doesn't-exist-isaurus" or "Never-was-and-never-will-be-saurus".

Anyways, most of the things there weren't based. The last movie in particular annoyed the daylights out of me.
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Personally, I'd be shocked and appalled, appalled if Hollywood was ever scientifically accurate.

Anyway, in the book, Nedry felt a tingling on his skin where the Dilophosaurus spit on him and was actually blinded when the venom struck his eyes. The Dilophosaurus then eviscerated him. Fun fun. :p

PS. The raptors in Jurassic Park are Utahraptors - Velociraptors were smaller.
 
Oh don't get me started on the raptors...
At the third movie they suddenly all grew Mohawks and could speak to one another.
 
Eriathiel said:
In the movie it said that the dinosaur was aiming specifically for the eyes - which is as you said venom, so I think that it would be venomous. When the dinosaur spit on the one character (Newman from Seinfeld) it didn't affect him until it hit him in the eyes...

I'd be interested to see what other people have to say though!
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OOOH, I seem to have been thinking of the acid spit from the Alien movies...lol
 
It would be venom. Spitting cobras spit their venom to blind their enemies/prey and it also is used in the "standard" venom way of injecting.
 
Kokopelli said:
There was no such dinosaur, Dilophosaurus was incapable of spitting anything, let alone venom. He was a small-medium sized predator,
http://www.cmstudio.com/dilophosaurus.html

I was really into Dino's as a kid and I was always angry with the creators of the movies... I always called the dino's there stuff like "Doesn't-exist-isaurus" or "Never-was-and-never-will-be-saurus".

Anyways, most of the things there weren't based. The last movie in particular annoyed the daylights out of me.
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Oh I know the dinosaur wasn't accurate at all - but even if it was, they were still wrong about the venom! So there, I win! One point Izzi, zero points Hollywood.... :)

The first movie was great, but I agree about three. They were really pushing it there!
 
Venom = Produced internally, usually injected. Venomous Snake or Stinging Insect.
Poison = Produced externally, usually contacted or eaten. Poison Dart Frog or Poisonous Plants.

Although the fake dino doesn't inject it's spit, it's generally still considered a venom.
 
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