Jurassic Time
BY: John Hammond
Introduction
My name is John Parker Hammond. I was born on March 14th,
1928. What follows is a record of certain events in which I took part
between the years 1980 and 1997, on an island I will call Site B. Site B was
not to be a theme park but a resarch station. This is where we did the real
work.
By 1989, International Genetic Technologies had succeeded in their desire
to genetically recreate the dinosaurs. It was an unprecedented
achomplishment, the pinnacle of 20th Century science, a work to rank with
the achievements of Galieo or Einstein. But it was not always so easy or so
simple as it appeared. For several years the true history of such
events...what happened at the place where the world changed. How it began.
What were the reasons? What was the cost?
BY: John Hammond
Introduction
My name is John Parker Hammond. I was born on March 14th,
1928. What follows is a record of certain events in which I took part
between the years 1980 and 1997, on an island I will call Site B. Site B was
not to be a theme park but a resarch station. This is where we did the real
work.
By 1989, International Genetic Technologies had succeeded in their desire
to genetically recreate the dinosaurs. It was an unprecedented
achomplishment, the pinnacle of 20th Century science, a work to rank with
the achievements of Galieo or Einstein. But it was not always so easy or so
simple as it appeared. For several years the true history of such
events...what happened at the place where the world changed. How it began.
What were the reasons? What was the cost?