Re: Mobile T.rex

[Eric Allen <erallen@yahoo.com>]

Pretty cool, I'd like to see it in action.  I'm not a
mechanical engineer, so I've got a question:  How does
the motor beneath the table connect to the legs?  The
only connection between the table and the skeleton and
table I see are what look like support rods.

As for the supplementary slideshow,  isn't it fun how
the news media can take a photo of almost anything and
tie it into something else (example, the picture of a
"rock formed from a dinosaur jawbone" with the caption
mostly talking about the recently-reported blood
vessels and the "tantilizing possibility of extracting
its DNA").  -sigh- 

Eric Allen
Undergraduate, TTU


--- Ralph Miller <ralph.miller@alumni.usc.edu> wrote:
> See a few photos of Hall Train's miniature _T. rex_
> skeleton controlled by rods so as to demonstrate
> tyrannosaur locomotion.  For the American Museum of
> Natural History's upcoming traveling exhibit,
> "Dinosaurs: Ancient Lives; New Discoveries," which
> opens in May.
> 
> Start with
>
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050329/480/nyr10903292143,
> and click on "Related Slide Show: Dinosaurs and
> Fossils."
> -----
> Ralph W. Miller III
> ralph.miller@alumni.usc.edu
> 

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