DINOSAUR BITES!!!

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2 total messages Started by Prashanth Kumar A.K.,Rm 1010 Fri, 18 Dec 1992 05:00

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Author: Prashanth Kumar A.K.,Rm 1010
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 05:00

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I have recently been pondering over a problem that has been handed
in to me about the consequences of an imagined toxin on the thalamic
relay cells.While I have finished my work on the answer,I am yet to
begin working on the question, which I think has been put into a 
wrong context,and too full of biological errors.I spotted about
four.Have a go at it,friends,biologist and countrymen......I await 
the outcome!!

Question:Imagine a lipophilic neurotoxin from a dinosaur has been 
isolated and purified.It was miraculously recreated from  DNA 
obtained from blood cells in the gut of pre-historic insects 
embedded in amber.the toxin when injected....etc..
and finally....relate your discoveries to the behavioral 
consequences of dinosaur bite.

QED.

Re: DINOSAUR BITES!!!

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Author: Jon Luckey
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 18:37

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akp@cns.nyu.edu (Prashanth Kumar A.K.,Rm 1010) writes:

>I have recently been pondering over a problem that has been handed
>in to me about the consequences of an imagined toxin on the thalamic
>relay cells.While I have finished my work on the answer,I am yet to
>begin working on the question, which I think has been put into a 
>wrong context,and too full of biological errors.I spotted about
>four.Have a go at it,friends,biologist and countrymen......I await 
>the outcome!!

>Question:Imagine a lipophilic neurotoxin from a dinosaur has been 
>isolated and purified.It was miraculously recreated from  DNA 
>obtained from blood cells in the gut of pre-historic insects 
>embedded in amber.the toxin when injected....etc..
>and finally....relate your discoveries to the behavioral 
>consequences of dinosaur bite.

I imagine that the consequences of such a bite would be to
stimulate Micheal Crichton's lawyers to spasms of rage and anger,
forcing involuntary cries of 'Plagerism' and 'Lawsuit!' to
their lips.  Similar reactions may occur in Steven Spielberg's
lawyers, but to a much lesser degree.

Further clues to this behavior can be detected in last year's
NY Time's Best Seller List and Steven Speilbeg's whereabouts
during Hurricane Andrew.

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