Re: The (long) future of paleontology

[Phil Bigelow <bigelowp@juno.com>]

It's too bad that psychics and mystics are so horrible at predicting
stuff.  We could put them to a productive use looking for buried dino
skeletons.  Watching Sylvia Browne stagger around delirious in a quarry
under a blazing sun would be quite entertaining.

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On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 10:34:07 +1100 Dann Pigdon <dannj@alphalink.com.au>
writes:
> Cliff Green wrote:
> > 
> >     I don't know about the rest of the world, but here in Utah, 
> the amount
> > of unretrieved fossil material is staggering. I can't even begin 
> to estimate
> > how many decades or centuries it would take to dig up and discribe 
> all of
> > the quarrys just here in Eastern Utah. 
> 
> That's assuming of course that digging will still be required in 
> the
> future. Subsurface remote sensing techniques may well become 
> accurate
> and precise enough to never have to get your hands dirty (or 
> bloody)
> ever again. 
> 
> Of course, such technology won't be perfected to this degree for a 
> while
> (despite the opening sequences of Jurassic Park, which seemed to 
> show
> some sort of sonic device rather than the 'ground penetrating 
> radar'
> mentioned in the dialogue).
> 
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