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Jun. 14th, 2004 02:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oakenguyOn the way back from the gig on Saturday I started passing signs that said 'DINOSAUR STATE PARK'. Can you say irresistable? My brain did. I was in the parking lot before I knew it, and paying my money to get inside the odd dome.
Inside the dome is an area about the size of a baseball infield, with a walkway around the edge. The middle is taken up with preserved dinosaur tracks, from the time when CT was a semi-tropical swamp. Hundreds of tracks. Big tracks. This caused some interesting neurons to fire in my brain.
Frontal Lobes: These prints are 200,000,000 years old. That's a long time.
Midbrain: Those are BIG tracks.
Hindbrain: Time, schmime, tracks = something here recently = something that might be nearby!
Frontal Lobes: Oh, look, a scale model of the creature that probably made the prints, a Dilophosaurus.
Midbrain: 'Eighteen-to-twenty foot predator with powerful legs indicating a very high rate of speed'.
Hindbrain: Ayiieeeee!!! *shuts down*
Ten minutes later
Frontal Lobes: Okay, let's think about the pattern of tracks here. Several hundred, going in all directions, and almost all are being created by the same species of carnivore. What would cause a pattern like this?
Midbrain: Easy--there's a den nearby. Probably a large one.
Hindbrain: AYIIEEEE!!! *shuts down again*
Inside the dome is an area about the size of a baseball infield, with a walkway around the edge. The middle is taken up with preserved dinosaur tracks, from the time when CT was a semi-tropical swamp. Hundreds of tracks. Big tracks. This caused some interesting neurons to fire in my brain.
Frontal Lobes: These prints are 200,000,000 years old. That's a long time.
Midbrain: Those are BIG tracks.
Hindbrain: Time, schmime, tracks = something here recently = something that might be nearby!
Frontal Lobes: Oh, look, a scale model of the creature that probably made the prints, a Dilophosaurus.
Midbrain: 'Eighteen-to-twenty foot predator with powerful legs indicating a very high rate of speed'.
Hindbrain: Ayiieeeee!!! *shuts down*
Ten minutes later
Frontal Lobes: Okay, let's think about the pattern of tracks here. Several hundred, going in all directions, and almost all are being created by the same species of carnivore. What would cause a pattern like this?
Midbrain: Easy--there's a den nearby. Probably a large one.
Hindbrain: AYIIEEEE!!! *shuts down again*
