Re: CONGO???? UGH!

[Stephen Faust <smfaust@edisto.cofc.edu>]

It wasn't. The hand attached to the wheel was not attached to a body. 

Stephen Faust                   smfaust@edisto.cofc.edu

On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Jonathon Woolf wrote:

> 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
> 
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