Re: "Interesting" hypothetical: marines vs. Velociraptor

["Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <th81@umail.umd.edu>]

At 01:19 PM 9/11/97 -0400, you wrote:
>
>Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. wrote:
>> 
>> I'll place my money on the marines.  Given that Velociraptor is over 70
million
>> years DEAD, they aren't going to put up much of a fight. :-)
>> 
>       Why are we using Marines?  Don't we want the people to win?  Send 
>in a Special Forces A-Detachment!!!

:-)

The advantage of this, of course, is having a vertebrate paleontologist in
the unit.

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
Vertebrate Paleontologist     Webpage: http://www.geol.umd.edu
Dept. of Geology              Email:th81@umail.umd.edu
University of Maryland        Phone:301-405-4084
College Park, MD  20742       Fax:  301-314-9661