I think the most revealing statement in Jurassic Park as to what the purpose for the park was meant to be was Hammond's explanation of why he would never help people. I believe the best way to say how I feel about this was best said in Ferris Bueller's Day off: "A man with priorities so far out of whack doesn't deserve such a fine automobile. " the car of course being a metaphor for the power Hammond possesses. Partially due to my bias against business and simply being in things for the money is why I can only say: I wish the compy's didnt sedate him first.
Fractals. Interesting creatures, I read a description once that relates to naturally occuring ones. Take the coast of the UK it says, measure it on a road map and you get x miles. Now go on google maps and zoom in all the way and measure again, you get a significantly larger number. Take a meter stick and walk around the coast laying it end to end, the number is larger still. The point is that detail is infinite and measuring natural quantities is always an estimate. (that's from Eating the Sun by Oliver something). Another interesting aspect of chaos theory is seen in cellular automata. Take a blank grid and assign rules so that the state (black or white) of each cell depends on the three in the row above it. You would think that with such an ordered system you would get simple ordinary patterns but this is not so.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=rule+22 <-- pattern
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=rule+110 <--- not so much (and if you are able to look at it taken down thousands of steps it goes nuts)
Imagine how this relates to the actual physical laws of nature. The world doesnt work the way we think it does, and beyond that it is infinitly more complex than we could ever imagine.
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