Re: From SCIENCE NEWS

[Josh Smith <smithjb@levee.wustl.edu>]

At 10:27 AM 10/1/2002, Garrison Hilliard wrote:

> DINOSAUR DOCUMENTARY A REAL-LIFE DETECTIVE STORY
> from The San Francisco Chronicle
>
> Los Angeles -- What is it about dinosaurs, anyway? Since "Jurassic
> Park" in 1993, people just can't seem to get enough of them. 
> Paleontologist Josh
> Smith, who stars in A&E's new documentary "The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt,"
> offers a hypothesis.
>
> "I think largely the attraction is they're really big, but they're dead so
> they can't hurt us. You can go, 'Look at the big teeth on that
> thing; isn't that cool! But it can't kill me because it's dead.' We can 
> still study
> them, but at a safe distance."
AAAARRRRGGGGGGHHH.  I want to know what principle of physics it is that 
dictates that whatever answer you give a reviewer to a silly question, even 
when it doesn't sound ALL that lame when you answer,  looks really stupid 
when you see it in print.  "But it can't kill me because it's dead."  Ohhhh 
yeah, THAT's profound.


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