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As he spoke, Hammond steered him toward the door
"But, John," Wu said "Remember back in &039;87, e started to build the containrown adults yet, so we had to predict e&039;d need- We ordered big taser shockers, cars with cattle prods uns that blow out electric nets All built specially to our specifications We&039;ve got a whole array of devices now and they&039;re all too slow We&039;ve got to make some adjustments You know that Muldoon wants uided devices?"
"Let&039;s leave Muldoon out of this," Hammond said "I&039;m not worried It&039;s just a zoo, Henry"
The phone rang, and Hammond went to answer it Wu tried to think of another way to press his case But the fact was that, after five long years, Jurassic Park was nearing co to him any more
There had been a time when Hammond listened to Wu very attentively Especially when he had first recruited hiht-year-old graduate student getting his doctorate at Stanford in Norman Atherton&039;s tab
Atherton&039;s death had thrown the lab into confusion as well asor the doctoral programs There was a lot of uncertainty; people worried about their careers
Teeks after the funeral, John Hammond came to see Wu Everyone in the lab knew that Atherton had had soh the details were never clear But Haot
"Noreneticist in his lab," he said "What are your plans now?"
"I don&039;t know Research"
"You want a university appointment?"
"Yes"
"That&039;s a mistake," Hammond said briskly "At least, if you respect your talent"
Wu had blinked "Why?"
"Because, let&039;s face facts," Haer the intellectual centers of the country The very idea is preposterous Universities are the backwater Don&039;t look so surprised I&039; you don&039;t know Since World War II, all the really important discoveries have come out of private laboratories The laser, the transistor the polio vaccine, the netic resonance ioes on and on Universities si any more And they haven&039;t been for forty years If you want to do soo to a university Dear me, no"
Wu found he was speechless
"Good heavens," Hah to start a new project? How rant applications, howcommittee? The department chairet more work space if you need It? More assistants if you need the does all that take? A brilliant man can&039;t squander precious time with for You want todone, stay out of universities"
In those days, Wu desperately wanted to make his mark John Hammond had his full attention
"I&039; about work, " Hammond continued "Real accomplishment What does a scientist need to work? He needs ti you a five-year co Fifty million dollars, and no one tells you how to spend it You decide Everyone else just gets out of your way"
It sounded too good to be true Wu was silent for a long time Finally he said, "In return for what?"
"For taking a crack at the i that probably can&039;t be done"
"What does it involve?"
"I can&039;t give you details, but the general area involves cloning reptiles"
"I don&039;t think that&039;s impossible," Wu said "Reptiles are easier than &039;s probably only ten, fifteen years off Assu some fundaot five years," Hammond said "And a lot of money, for somebody ants to take a crack at it now"
"Is my work publishable?"
"Eventually"
"Not immediately?"
"But eventually publishable?" Wu asked, sticking on this point
Hahed "Don&039;t worry If you succeed, the whole world will know about what you&039;ve done, I promise you"
And now it seeht After five years of extraordinary effort, they were just a year away fro the park to the public Of course, those years hadn&039;t gone exactly as Ha him what to do, and many times fearsome pressures were placed on him And the work itself had shifted-it wasn&039;t even reptilian cloning, once they began to understand that dinosaurs were so si, a very different proposition Much more difficult And for the last two years, Wu had been pri teaene sequencers Administration wasn&039;t the kind of work he relished It wasn&039;t what he had bargained for
Still, he had succeeded He had done what nobody really believed could be done, at least in so short a tihts, some say in what happened, by virtue of his expertise and his efforts Instead, he found his influence waning with each passing day The dinosaurs existed The procedures for obtaining theies were mature And John Hammond didn&039;t need Henry Wu any more
"That should be fine," Ha into the phone He listened for a while, and s up "Where e, Henry?"
"We were talking about phase two," Wu said
"Oh yes We&039;ve gone over some of this before, Henry-"
"I know, but you don&039;t realize-"
"Excuse e of impatience in his voice "I do realize And I must tell you frankly, Henry I see no reason to ienome has been forced on us by law or necessity We es in the future, to resist disease, or for other reasons But I don&039;t think we should improve upon reality just because we think it&039;s better that way We have real dinosaurs out there now That&039;s what people want to see And that&039;s what they should see That&039;s our obligation, Henry That&039;s honest, Henry"
And, s, Hammond opened the door for him to leave
Control
Grant looked at all the co irritable Grant didn&039;t like computers He knew that this made him old-fashioned, dated as a researcher, but he didn&039;t care So for computers, an intuition Grant never felt that He found co machines Even the funda system and an application left hiraphy he didn&039;t begin to comprehend But he noticed that Gennaro was perfectly co little sniffing sounds, like a bloodhound on a trail
"You want to know about controlin his chair in the control roo man of forty-five He squinted at the others in the room "We have unbelievable control arette
"For example," Gennaro said
"For exa" Arnold pressed a button on his console, and the vertical glass ed blue lines "That&039;s our juvenile T-rex The little rex All his movements within the park over the last twenty-four hours" Arnold pressed the button again "Previous twenty-four" And again "Previous twenty-four"
The lines on the map became densely overlaid, a child&039;s scribble But the scribble was localized in a single area, near the southeast side of the lagoon
"You get a sense of his ho, so he stays close to the water And he stays away fro rex and the little rex, and you&039;ll see their paths never cross
"Where is the big rex right now?" Gennaro asked
Arnold pushed another button Thespot with a code nuoon "He&039;s right there"
"And the little rex?"
"Hell, I&039;ll show you every aniht up like a Christed with a code nuht animals as of this minute"
"How accurate?"
"Within five feet" Arnold puffed on the cigarette "Let&039;s put it this way: you drive out in a vehicle and you will find the aniht there, exactly as they&039;re shown on the map"
"How often is this updated?"
"Every thirty seconds"
"Pretty impressive," Gennaro said "How&039;s it done?"
"We have motion sensors all around the park," Arnold said "Most of &039;em hard-wired, some radio-telemetered Of course, motion sensors won&039;t usually tell you the species, but we get inition direct off the video Even e&039;re not watching the videowhere everybody is"
"Does the computer ever make a mistake?"
"Only with the babies It es But we don&039;t sweat that The babies almost always stay close to herds of adults Also you have the category tally"
"What&039;s that?"
"Once every fifteen ories," Arnold said "Like this"
Total Animals 238____________________________________
Species Expected Found Ver
Tyrannosaurs 2 2 41
Maiasaurs 21 21 33
Stegosaurs 4 4 39
Triceratops 8 8 31
Proconathids 49 49 39
Othnielia 16 16 31
Velociraptors 8 8 30
Apatosaurs 17 17 31
Hadrosaurs 11 11 31
Dilophosaurs 7 7 43
Pterosaurs 6 6 43
Hypsilophodontids 33 33 29
Euoplocepbalids 16 16 40
Styracosaurs 18 18 39
Callovosaurs 22 22 41
Total 238 238
"What you see here," Arnold said, "is an entirely separate counting procedure It isn&039;t based on the tracking data It&039;s a fresh look The whole idea is that the computer can&039;t athering the data If an ani, we&039;d knoithin five minutes"
"I see," Malcolm said "And has that ever actually been tested?"
"Well, in a way," Arnold said "We&039;ve had a few aniht in the branches of a tree and strangled One of the stegos died of that intestinal illness that keeps bothering them One of the hypsilophodonts fell and broke his neck And in each case, once the ani and the conaled an alert"
"Within five minutes"
"Yes"
Grant said, "What is the right-hand column?"
"Release version of the animals The oing to version 44"
"Version numbers? You mean like software? New releases?"
"Well, yes," Arnold said "It is like software, in a way As we discover the glitches in the DNA, Dr Wu&039;s labs have to make a new version"
The idea of living creatures being nu subject to updates and revisions, troubled Grant He could not exactly say why-it was too new a thought-out he was instinctively uneasy about it They were, after all, living creatures
Arnold must have noticed his expression, because he said, "Look, Dr Grant, there&039;s no point getting starry-eyed about these animals It&039;s important for everyone to remember that these anis So, as we discover the bugs, Dr Wu&039;s labs have to make a new version And we need to keep track of what version we have out there"
"Yes, yes, of course you do," Malcol-I take it all the counts are based on motion sensors?"
"Yes"
"And these sensors are everywhere in the park?"
"They cover ninety-two percent of the land area," Arnold said "There are only a few places we can&039;t use thele river, because thefrom the surface screws up the sensors But we have them nearly everywhere else And if the computer tracks an animal into an unsensed zone, it&039;ll reain And if it doesn&039;t, it gives us an alarm"
"Now, then," Malcolnatbids Suppose I suspect that some of them aren&039;t really the correct species Hoould you show ?"
"Tays," Arnold said "First of all, I can track individual ainst the other presuroup We have two coroups in the park So the individuals should be within either group A or group B"
"Yes, but-"
"The other way is direct visual," he said He punched buttons and one of the es of compys, numbered from 1 to 49
"These pictures are"