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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