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This is a reference to the film "Jurassic Park"[1]. If you don't understand it, watch the film - it's still worth it.
1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_Park_%28film%29
I thought I'd mention it, since the film was released in 1993 and there are people who are old enough to read xkcd but young enough to have been born after Jurassic Park came out. [Relevant xkcd.[2]]
Comment by experiential at 25/07/2014 at 13:49 UTC
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It might be worth mentioning that it was actually a novel first, released in 1990. The novel is excellent (and goes even more into the thing about chaos theory and math).
Actually, there's a lot of differences between the book and the movie. There's little things, like how the vehicles in the book are Toyotas because only the Japanese are willing enough to invest in something as crazy as a dinosaur park. In the movie they're American cars. And there's other, big differences. You know what, everyone should experience both!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_Park_(novel[1])
1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_Park_(novel
Comment by [deleted] at 25/07/2014 at 09:35 UTC
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Stop it! Stop making me feel old! Go away you damn ghost!
Comment by pinumbernumber at 25/07/2014 at 13:02 UTC
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there are people who are old enough to read xkcd but young enough to have been born after Jurassic Park came out
That's putting it mildly. 20-year-olds were born in '94, remember... (Not that I have any excuse for STILL not having watched it, though.)
Comment by KingOCarrotFlowers at 25/07/2014 at 20:49 UTC
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Jurassic Park was the very first PG-13 movie my parents ever let me watch.
It began my childhood love for dinosaurs.
Comment by [deleted] at 27/07/2014 at 03:06 UTC
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To take what you said a step further, kids born after jurassic park and may have never seen it can legally drink in the U.S.