That would be expensive and complex. Really the passive solution would seem very simple. Use a moat instead of a fence for the big dinos. They aren't going to jump that far, and you could slope the inner side down so they don't injure themselves falling in, provide ramps so they can get back out if they do. Many Zoos already do this. You could then see the animals more clearly too! Sure it'd require more land, but who cares? I mean if you really had dino's in a park you could charge so much money it just wouldn't matter, and you wouldn't want to build anywhere with expensive land anyway.biostem wrote:I can't imagine that it'd be that much harder to take down a dinosaur than it would for some of the larger animals people have hunted. As another person noted, it'd take multiple coincidental/compounded failures/sabotage in order to place all the humans running the place into such a disadvantaged position.
I wonder how situations would play out, if the park simply kept a game warden aloft, armed with a high powered rifle/machine gun, AND the skill to reliably hit targets, in a helicopter. Or institute some sort of passive safety system, where the fenced in areas are layered with shutters, which must have power applied in order to keep them open, and which shut when certain emergency buttons/alarms are pressed.
Moats are mentioned in the Jurassic Park book, I forget on the movie. Nothing can really fail with a proper moat with concrete walls, and the width wouldn't have to be all that wide. Just deep and with a strongly reinforced 'viewer' side. Such a thing would be more expensive then a electric fence, and hard to build in certain terrain, and not using them 100% makes sense in the book going back to the 'cost conscious' mentality expressed in the work. But for movie number FOUR? People would figure this out after the first couple disasters! Though in fairness I don't know if this is meant to be a continuity, has that been said?
For the smaller dino's you'd just put them in a pit probably, and one bigger and deeper then the veleciraptor pen shown in the original movie which was just dumb. It looked expensive to build and wasn't passively safe, and you couldn't see the damn animals, and it was simply an unsuitable habitat as they clearly couldn't have had enough space to run around naturally at anything like full speed and be remotely healthy. Everything was against it. If this created visibility issues you could have grade level viewing windows protected by steel bars. Which is something zoos also do, though most animals simply wont attack heavy glass or lexan anyway so you don't need bars. Its not that the animals would break the material, but just if they attack it they'd scratch it up, and it'd be expensive to fix. So bars may or may not be needed. And no way are raptors of 1000lb or less going to break heavy steel bars. Steel does not work that way /morbo!
