Re: Errors in Jurassic Park (Movie) (posted for P. Roopnarine)

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Date: Sat, 06 Jan 1996 11:22:32 -0600
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From: c583scb@semovm.semo.edu (Dr. Peter Roopnarine)
Subject: Re: Errors in Jurassic Park (Movie)
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>In a message dated 96-01-05 16:43:20 EST, barryr@ucmp1.Berkeley.EDU (Barry
>Roth) writes:
>
>>Not an error of paleontological fact, but my favorite example of
>>what-happens-to-interesting-stuff-when-moviemakers-put-their-moves-on-it was
>>Jeff Goldblum's explanation of Chaos Theory that reduced it to a kind of
>>Murphy's Law.
>
>
>Once you sift through the mathematics, that's about all Chaos Theory really
>is.
>
Please, let's not insult a host of mathematicians and other scientists by
suggesting that Chaos Theory is trivial. Jeff Goldblum's movie explanation
was a crock, and so was the apparent ignorance of his less enlightened
paleontological companions. I found that insulting.