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Re: personal groans
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999 at 14:02:52 -0400 Farlow@IPFW.EDU
wrote:
> Well, while we're commenting on the media, let me mention my
> own reservations about my forthcoming Discover channel program,
> "Dinosaur Attack", scheduled for broadcast on September 6.
Here is a VCR alert for the dino list and Larry's Dinosaur TV Week.
> thrust of the show is that the attack did occur. Much is made
> over an attempt to recreate the attack using computer graphics,
> the implication being that the ability to make a behavioral
> interpretation fit the footprints shows that the behavior in question
> actually occurred. In my opinion, the only thing that was tested
> by the computer graphics was the cleverness of the programmers.
It will be interesting to see what the program emphasizes vs. what
the article in Scientific American actually said.
Mary
mkirkaldy@aol.com