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Hasn't been anything here for nearly a month, so I thought I'd go and repeat something I posted over at "the other Group." Feel free to read or ignore as you please, and if it annoyed you the first time then I'm sorry to annoy you again (although it really didn't seem to bother anybody, and some people had had similar ideas).

In the book Jurassic Park, and in the movies based on it, one concern was the dinosaurs escaping, eating tourists, getting off the island to wreck the ecosystem, etc. This would be a realistic concern, assuming of course that you could "lazurogene" dinosaurs in the first place. It would also be a legitimate concern if you were building Pliocene Park or Experimental Mutant Creature Park or anything like that.

So put your dinos, mammoths, saber-toothed cats, or Dixonian gigantolopes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lot7D_cbt-0#tm45s) on a large habitat. A Bishop ring would be large enough for any critter the Earth has ever hosted, but even an O'Neill cylinder 20 Km wide by 100 Km long, an Island Four or Five perhaps, should be enough for most creatures.

Well, obviously this is for when you've been building these things for a while, and not something you'd do right at first. Still, when you've got enough resources to build the equivalent of thousands of Earths, then why not dedicate an "Earth" or two (or fifty) to this sort of thing?