Re: nerds & earth scientists

[Ray McAllister <mcallist@gate.net>]

The Gallimimus running scene was extremely well done and what I would 
like to see in a full length animated and model movie, properly done-as I 
said earlier, perhaps a time travel (unscientific) to the Mesozoic or?

Ray McAllister, Prof (Emeritus) Ocean Eng., FAU, Boca Raton, FL 33064
Diving Dinosaur, Geologist/Oceanographer/Ocean Engineer, 43 years SCUBA
mcallist@gate.net (305) 426-0808, Author Diving Locations, Boynton/Dania


On Wed, 1 Mar 1995, Derek Tearne wrote:

> > 
> > You called it Bonnie. If the subscribers to this broup could offer the 
> > groups services to the JP sequel (and if they were accepted) it would be 
> > very helpful and incidentally, fun!
> >     BTW, my biggest kick was when the paleobotanist just happened to 
> > have a pair of upper arm length plastic gloves along so she could plunge 
> > into any Triceratops dung she saw. 
> 
> Well, that is one of the 'mistakes' that isn't.  I remember thinking
> 'where did she get the gloves from'.  Then I realised that a vet working 
> on such animals would indeed have arm length plastic gloves.
> 
> > The dung pile sure looked like it came 
> > from something a helluva lot larger than a Tri-C; something like a 
> > Seismosaurus.
> 
> Now, the size and shape of the dung piles _that_ was a mistake.
>  
> 
> Did anyone else spot the newspaper headline taped to the front of 
> grants refridgerator?   The one that said "Space Aliens stole my face"...
> 
> Well, someone was having fun making that movie.  And the shear symbolism
> of the Brachiosaurs walking out of the lake and onto the land where 
> they belong was priceless.
> 
> In fact, there are a couple of places where the attention to detail 
> was extreme.  For instancethe hadrosaurs drinking at the poolside
> looked and acted just like real animals drinking at water holes in
> Africa.  
> 
> Also, when the herd of Gallimimus (sp? and how on earth could he tell!) 
> were being chased by the T-rex.  How many people noticed what 
> happened just after the rex made his kill?  The herd stopped running and 
> one of the individuals looked towards the rex, saw it had made a kill
> and immediately started eating again as the danger was now past.
> 
> It's almost as though there were two producers making the film.  One 
> paying great attention to detail and another one making stupid mistakes.
> 
> Maybe the film was running late and they just skimped on the last ten 
> percent...
> 
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