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Wha??
A.R. Russell  --- Is this THE Alfred Russell Wallace?
Well then, time travel is possible after all1
It is now a month past April 1 as well.  So what gives?  
Next thing we'll read in these pages is that Steven J. Gould has
reappeared to help old Adam out of his rex problem.
Has someone hacked the Associated Press's RSS feed?

Reagan Cole
Durham, NC
Just down the Durham greenway from the southeast's only surviving green concrete
Brontosaurus (rex)    
PS:  I forgot, my own dear wife is deeply involved in the saga of sauropod folksonomy:
http://users.aristotle.net/~russjohn/monsters/ms6.html 
Now there's a story for the History of Science Museums! 




-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeff Rosenblatt <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: May 28, 2007 3:18 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Kentucky Creation Museum
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>Hilarious!!
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>Jeff Rosenblatt
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>Subject: Re: Kentucky Creation Museum
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>Breaking News from the Kentucky Creation Museum: Animatronic T-Rex Eats
>
>Adam.  (AP).  
>By A.R. Wallace.
> 
>Evolution is derided at this 60,000-square-foot facility, packed with  
>high-tech exhibits designed by an acclaimed theme-park artist,
>animatronic dinos  
>and a massive ark hewn of wood. In this Old Testament version of
>history,  
>dinosaurs appeared on the same day God created every other land animal.
>Even the 
>Creation Museum staff was surprised by the "evolution" of events  today.
> 
>The Creation might have taken a different course if prehistoric
>dinosaurs  
>had acted like the animatronic dinosaurs in the Museum.  In one exhibit,
>next 
>to a gurgling waterfall, a pair of ancient children were displayed
>frolicking 
>just a few feet away from a group of "friendly dinosaurs."  The
>dinosaurs 
>were livelier than the designer attended and took a few unintended
>strides so 
>that it looks as if they are pursuing the children.
> 
>An even more dramatic turn of events occurred in the display juxtaposing
>the 
>giant, moving and shrieking T-Rex with humans, where Adam literally
>ended up  
>in the powerful jaws of the ferocious carnivore.  Until the Creation
>Museum  
>display, animatronic dinosaurs were largely stationery, moving only the
>upper  
>body.  In the redesigned T-Rex, the behemoth not only moved his upper
>body,  
>but took a few strides.  This T-Rex took a few strides right towards
>Adam,  
>then tilted and fell, such that Adam's body was forced between his jaws.
>For a 
>few minutes, this macabre scene played out while the animatronic T-Rex  
>flailed about, sideways, in a circular pattern, with Adam in his jaws.  
> 
>This unintended display frightened small children, who were horrified
>that 
>the Creation might have been stopped in its tracks by T-Rex.  Parents  
>hurriedly tried to explain to their children that the T-Rex was
>initially "nice"  
>until the Fall and the end of Paradise.
> 
>Meanwhile, museum designers were scurrying to check the Great Flood
>exhibit, 
>where animatronic workers are busily building Noah's giant wooden ark,
>which 
>rises two or three stories inside the museum.  The museum
>administration 
>assured visitors that they do not have to fear being washed away  in a
>torrent of 
>water.
> 
>Staff research paleontologists were asked how all of the animals,
>including  
>dinosaurs, could have possibly survived on the same boat.  Dr. G. Mendel
>
>explained that Noah invented the original tofu, which carnivorous
>animals,  
>including the T-Rex, found satisfying.  
> 
>The Creation Museum opened today.  Museum officials said they hope to  
>minimize visitor injuries from animatronic dinosaurs run amuck.  The
>dinosaurs may 
>be unplugged until they can be reprogrammed.
> 
> 
>Reported by Associated Press.
> 
>Bob Russell
>Learning Experience Design
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