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Re: Dinosaur artwork



Re JP3:
<Theropods are not always running around screaming and yowling as if
BurgerKing just opened its doors.>

Here the populace greets the opening of Burger King with quiet dignity, when
we deign to notice.  Never realized 'til now how rich life here must be.
My favorite gaff is the foot races between the 'human' characters and the
spinosaur.  The humans win, apparently because they have a head start.
Guess the scriptwriter doesn't know Zeno's Achilles paradox has been solved.
(That's the one where a tortoise gets a head start, but Achilles is twice as
fast.  In a certain period of time, Achilles cuts the tortoise's lead in
half, then later in half again, and again and again and again.
Arithmetically, Achilles can never catch the tortoise, because no matter how
often you cut a number in half, there's always something left.  For the
scriptwriter's [and spinosaur's] benefit, the answer is found by something
called 'algebra'.)