Re: CONGO???? UGH!

[Jonathon Woolf <jwoolf@erinet.com>]

Sabrina Cox wrote:
> 
> I was also wondering, did we come up with a reason why the T.Rex got out of
> the cargo hold, killed people in places that he couldn't fit and then
> trapped himself back in?  Or did I miss that?

Bettyc came up with a truly elegant answer to this.  The T-rex wasn't
originally in the hold.  It was in the cage on deck.  (Or maybe they
brought the cage out of the hold in preparation for docking.)  Rex broke
loose on deck and killed most of the crew, but three survived.  Or
rather, three took longer to die.  #1 decoyed Rex into the hold. #2
closed the cargo-bay doors before dying.  #3 got to the bridge and set
the autopilot.  As far as I recall, we never saw if the hand on the
ship's wheel was attached to a body or not, so I'm assuming it was.

This does not, unfortunately, explain how an eight-ton bipedal animal
could even keep its balance on a ship less than two hundred feet long
and maybe 1000 tons burden.  One doesn't need to know a lot about ships
to know that eight tons moving around on a ship that small would create
some pretty bad rolling.  T-REX OVERBOARD!  <g>

-- JSW