Salomon Aaron
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I don't think a private collector should do that.
I guess if you can and you have the money and it's fun and it's kind of exciting, fair enough.
But I don't recommend someone to do it that way.
Very high risk.
You may end up acquiring or finding a dinosaur skeleton that you actually don't have the space for, or you don't want, or is not what you ideally wanted.
you know very hard to manage uh you know if you're if you're sitting in new york or you're sitting in london you need to trust that the team that you are working with i mean when they find a bone how do you know they're not putting it in their pocket you know how do you know your uh i mean we're talking about really remote places where you you have no idea you know i had a you know there are also all types of things like there are situations where you know you you acquire something and the seller holds back a
by the way, I did find a couple other bones that you would really want to buy now.
Now I'm going to extort you for the, yeah, that's happened too many times to me.
So yeah, I think I've, as a dealer, I feel like I've aged disproportionately to my age, but you need to kind of work with a small number of people you trust and try wherever possible because life is short to kind of delegate the headache and the stress and the risk, in my opinion.
I think there are the obvious ethical issues of it.
I mean, you know, once you open Pandora's box and you start kind of bringing back to life, you know, where does it end?
People are always talking about it.
I even think Elon Musk did a post recently about Jurassic Park.
I mean, so I'm sure it will happen in our lifetime.
Whether it will be good or not, I don't know.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
You're sure it'll happen in our lifetime?