Re: Sounds like a tall TAIL

["Allan Edels" <edels@email.msn.com>]

Phil has been doing the work in conjunction with Nathan Myhrvold, who is
also on this list.  They ran extensive computer simulations on the question.
(Nathan is the Chief Technical Officer of Microsoft - for his day job).
Nathan gave a talk here in Phila. at the DinoFest Symposium (this past
April) concerning the sauropod tails creating sonic booms, and he
demonstrated the effect using a whip.

        Allan Edels

-----Original Message-----
From: kmh <lonid@netone.com>
To: dinosaur@usc.edu <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Date: Thursday, September 10, 1998 9:36 PM
Subject: Sounds like a tall TAIL


>Okay, girl writer once again rears her womanly head.  I've been hired to
>write a regular dinosaur column in a new launch kids' magazine (name to
>be announced).  And I want to explore this work Phil Currie is doing
>(according to the TV news magazine) with tails and sound theories.  Is
>Phil the only one exploring the ideology?  Or is there some other
>authority I should contact as well?
>
>Thanks in advance (note: not a stitch of innuendo...I'm reformed. Well,
>at least for now).
>
>*kel
>
>p.s.  Question...how many of you got stiffed by Dinosaurus (as I did)?
>Just curious.
>