Re: (Fwd) Gravity

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Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 23:45:25 -0600
To: paleonet-owner@nhm.ac.uk
From: collom@geo.ucalgary.ca (Christopher Collom)
Subject: Re: (Fwd) Gravity
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Tim from Rawlings, WY pondered:

>Some of the water dinosaurs lived on, which gives us whales
>and sharks.  Some of the smaller reptiles lived on for
>birds, and the close to the ground dinosaurs are todays
>lizards.
>Just something to think about.  I'm not a scientist, just a
>normal person who wonders about stuff.


        Though we may wonder for just a moment if Tim is indeed a "normal
person" (unlike us), the sheer uninhibited creativity and wonderment, if
you will, of this nearly poetic statement is a microcosm of what may be
all-too-lacking in our field.  We paleontologist can get pretty darn
analytical, eh.  Way too serious.
        Thanks Tim, for that lil' reminder that there is still room to
wonder about stuff.  This is likely the reason 99% of us got into the crazy
discipline in the first place, isn't it?  Consider . . .


  CHRISTOPHER