From:	"Robert A. Hayden" <hayden@*******.MANKATO.MSUS.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Jurassic thread
Date:	Thu, 17 Jun 1993 12:43:43 -0500

On Thu, 17 Jun 1993, Michael E. Cating wrote:

> This is for all you folks that are thinking about Jurassic Park
> (thanks for the 30 messages in less than a day as well).

Any time :)

> Anyway, I saw the movie Monday and read the book Tues and Wed (both
> were extremely good in my opinion - especially Malcolm's chaos theory).
> In the book, they kept referring to the "compys", those small foot-tall
> lizards that first attacked the girl. (I don't think they were in the
> movie, though.)

Sorry, they wern't in the movie. The small 'attacking' dinosaurs we saw
were (and I probably have the name wrong) Dilapisaurus. These were the
man-sized critters that was really cute and inquizitive to Neddly, and
then reared up like a cobra and extended his neck and spit venom (she
would not make a good pet).

> My question is: what was everyone's reaction to these
> things?

Brought back all of the dreams of my childhood.

> Second, picture, if you will, one of these things, with just a
> fair amount of cyberware to make 'em berzerk (as in Critter Rules, SR 1,
> p. 178). I know they aren't the ruthless killers that velociraptors are,
> but I kinda like the "looks nice but'll kill you in an instant" image of
> these things.

Or worse, imagine making a 'Raptor crazy with cyberwear...........


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