Re: "Restless Planet" or to gild your Titanic deckchair

["franklin e. bliss" <frank@blissnet.com>]

That is only 9 barrels per ounce.

Regarding GSP's discussion, a pea sized piece of metal falling at  
terminal velocity,  OWWWW.  (I actually have some experience with that  
kind of thing having mostly lost an eye to a pea sized piece of metal  
at around 100 mph.)

Frank (Rooster) Bliss
MS Biostratigraphy
Weston, Wyoming
www.wyomingdinosaurs.com


On Dec 18, 2007, at 4:37 PM, David Krentz wrote:

> > And yes David Krentz, the eye is back.
>
> AHHHH! The Eye of (dino)Sauron is upon us once again!  Well, lets  
> just hope this exhibit means they can spend some of their dead- 
> dinosaur dollars on mounted skeletons, artist comissions...etc.   
> With the price of gold at 900 I'm sure a 24karat Sue skeleton is not  
> within their grasp.
>
> David Krentz
>
> On Dec 18, 2007, at 2:10 PM, Steve Walsh wrote:
>
> > "The question of what you do with a never-ending supply of cash has  
> > been answered. The extravagant, oil-rich City of Dubai (part of the  
> > United Arab Emirates or UAE) is building what may be the world's  
> > largest dinosaur theme park. Dubbed (or "Dubiad") Restless Planet,  
> > this domed play land promises to take visitors back at least 100  
> > million years to a time when dinosaurs roamed freely."
> >
> > http://www.cityofarabiame.com/our-projects/restless-planet/overview-restless-planet.html
> >
> > Will alien paleontologists chuckle on the paradox of the proceeds  
> > of our species' demise being used to "resurrect" long dead ones?
> >
> > And yes David Krentz, the eye is back.