Jack Horner begins by describing how the age of a fossil can be determined, through the surrounding soil and with scientific equipment. Jack and other scientists are looking for the ancestor of all dinosaurs. Multiple mass extinctions, where meteors struck near Hell Creek formation (where they are digging) make finding fossils in the area more difficult. The way it can be determined where a meteor hit is by analyzing the soil for high Iridium levels. I believe that, so far, the author of this book is not focusing on "How to Build a Dinosaur" and more on how to find the fossil of a dinosaur. But still, this book is interesting and i will continue to rad it.
page 20 - page 40
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Jack Horner - How to Build a Dinosaur
This book is about a process called reverse evolution. This entail experimenting with a creature's embryo to give it traits similar to it's ancestors. Though this has not yet been successfully completed, significant advances have been made in experimenting with chicken embryos. Also, because this process does not involve use of dinosaur DNA, it is an easy process to repeat.To find scientists to help him work on this project, Jack (the author of this book) traveled to Bozeman, a town in Montana just east of the Rockies. Near this town lies Hell Creek Formation, which contains sediment that dates back to the dinosaurs. Jack hopes to find scientists in Bozeman and Jordan, another nearby town, to assist him.
Sunday, February 13, 2011
H.P. Lovecraft - Through the Gates of the Silver Key
- 4 men are sitting around a table in a very strange room
- The men are there to talk about Randolph Carter, a man who disappeared into the woods while carrying a strange key from an ancient box in his attic
- Carter used this key to travel back in time and live as a young boy once again, a one of the men named Swami Chandraputra says
- The now young Randolph Carter walked into a very peculiar cave
- Carter then used the silver key to travel to what would appear as an alternate dimension of some sort
- Carter knows that he will have to find the Guide, so that he may become familiar with this land
- Randolph finds the Guide; It is a heavily cloaked figure about half the size of a human
- The Guided is all knowing
- Carter wants to follow the Guide to the Ultimate Gate, a portal to a place far stranger even than Randolph's current surroundings
- The Guides leads Carter to a tables surrounded by other cloaked figures, and the Guide takes out a strange metallic sphere
- This sphere emits a strange, rhythmic noise
- The sphere begins to glow and move, guiding Randolph Carter's path in the abyss of this dimension
Pages 492-412 Necronomicon
- The men are there to talk about Randolph Carter, a man who disappeared into the woods while carrying a strange key from an ancient box in his attic
- Carter used this key to travel back in time and live as a young boy once again, a one of the men named Swami Chandraputra says
- The now young Randolph Carter walked into a very peculiar cave
- Carter then used the silver key to travel to what would appear as an alternate dimension of some sort
- Carter knows that he will have to find the Guide, so that he may become familiar with this land
- Randolph finds the Guide; It is a heavily cloaked figure about half the size of a human
- The Guided is all knowing
- Carter wants to follow the Guide to the Ultimate Gate, a portal to a place far stranger even than Randolph's current surroundings
- The Guides leads Carter to a tables surrounded by other cloaked figures, and the Guide takes out a strange metallic sphere
- This sphere emits a strange, rhythmic noise
- The sphere begins to glow and move, guiding Randolph Carter's path in the abyss of this dimension
Pages 492-412 Necronomicon
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