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From: beth@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (JB)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: What was the breviparopus?
Message-ID: <1215@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 21-Oct-85 10:17:33 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 21 10:17:33 1985
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[I'll take 2 to go, please]

From: ted@imsvax.UUCP (Ted Holden), Message-ID: <435@imsvax.UUCP>:
>A co-worker of mine has a theory as to how a Texas pterosaur, or
>Quetzalcoatlus Northropi could have lived in our gravity, assuming that
>the breviparopus also could have.  This would have involved a symbiotic
>relationship between the two in which, for a reasonable fee, the
>breviparopus would use its mighty tail to HURL the pterosaur up into the
>thermal currents, where it could resume its gliding.  This theory makes
>more sense to me than anything I have seen from the UT astro dept.
>concerning pterosaurs.  I would like to suggest that anyone who cannot
>live with my theory regarding lesser gravity consider this theory as an
>alternative.

SOLD!!  I like this theory best too.  Forget the celestial ring-around-
the-stellar nonsense, and those boring ol' calculations of power-to-
weight, I vote for Animal Antics.  Viva Symbiosis!
-- 

--JB        (Beth Christy, U. of Chicago, ..!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!beth)

"What if the after-effect of the terrible bomb is unusual beyond belief?
 Wouldn't you rather the whole population had listened to somebody like
    the old Indian chief?"   (The Roches)