Re: Most popular/common dinosaur misconceptions

[jrc <jrccea@bellsouth.net>]

Like many of Robert's quotes, that one is well worth the repeating.  Robert 
and Ginny did a lot of good during their lives, and are continuing to do so 
posthumously.

Ginny established the Heinlein Space Prize Trust a few years back.  Several 
weeks ago in Houston, the inaugural award of $500,000 was given to Peter 
Diamandis (the perfect choice for first recipient).  Another of her 
foundations provides major financial support for the public library in 
Butler, Missouri, Robert's home town.  In a third donation, she anonymously 
funded the Heinlein Chair in Aerospace Engineering at the U.S. Naval Academy 
in Annapolis.  I could go on, at some risk of becoming a bore......

As an aside, I became interested in flapping flight  and then vertebrate 
flight because of Robert's short story, ' The Menace From Earth '.
JimC
P.S.  I'm sure my response has something to do with dinosaurs, but I'm not 
quite sure what    :-)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Martichuski" <herewiss13@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Most popular/common dinosaur misconceptions


> Reminds me of a Lazarus Long (aka Robert Heinlein) quote:
>
> "This sad little lizard told me that he was a brontosaurus on his mother's 
> side. I did not laugh; people who boast of ancestry often have little else 
> to sustain them. Humoring them costs nothing and adds to happiness in a 
> world in which happiness is always in short supply. "