Subject: RE: [extropy-chat] That T-rex

From: Mike Lorrey <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 12:52:58 -0800 (PST)

Sounds like someone broke the embargo on a story scheduled for April 1.

--- Brian Lee <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Can't wait for the new Jurassic Park to open up with a live T-Rex.
> 
> BAL
> 
> >From: Damien Broderick <[email-masked]>
> >To: "'ExI chat list'" <[email-masked]>
> >Subject: [extropy-chat] That T-rex
> >Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 13:23:16 -0600
> >
> >NYT:
> >
> >< Workers at a field site in Montana had broken the
> 70-million-year-old 
> >fossilized thighbone of a Tyrannosaurus rex in half for purely
> logistical 
> >reasons - huge bone, small helicopter. When scientists examined the
> bone 
> >fragments in the lab, they discovered something no one expected to
> find - 
> >unfossilized soft tissue, including blood vessels and the cells that
> line 
> >them.
> >
> >Just how these tissues were preserved is a very good question, one
> that may 
> >lead scientists to re-examine their theories of fossilization. >
> >
> >The answer is obvious: the T-rex, and all the other dinosaurs, were
> not 
> >70-or-more million years old after all, but only 6000 at most.
> Praise the 
> >Lord!
> >
> >Damien Broderick
> >
> >
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Mike Lorrey
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"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
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