Hello Internet! This is my first post as a blogger, and I
already have so much to talk about.
I guess I’ll start with what triggered the recent turn of
events. Not long ago, I gave a lecture at the Santa Fe institute about my favorite topic and my specialty Chaos Theory (If you don’t know what that is, here’s a link: http://library.thinkquest.org/3120/
).
At first, the lecture was going well; the audience was
silent, and everyone seemed to know a decent amount about Chaos Theory, which
makes it all a lot easier. But approximately half way through the lecture,
someone raised their hand to ask a question. That someone was the spoiled brat
of a paleontologist, Richard Levine.
Levine is… annoying. I cannot deny him of
being a brilliant genius, but he is well known for his reputation of being an arrogant
s.o.b. as well as a rich little snob.
Anyways, he didn't really ask anything. He just interrupted
my lecture to promote a stupid idea; that dinosaurs never went extinct, and
that somewhere on earth where mankind has yet to venture, they still flourish.
I told him he was “deluded” and continued my lecture. Unfortunately, Levine wasn't finished with me. I should have known; he is also known for his stubbornness.
After the lecture, I met up with a close friend of mine,
Sarah Harding. We discussed the lecture for a bit, until we were interrupted by
that damn Levine kid again. He kept arguing the possibility that dinosaurs
still exist somewhere, and I kept trying to tell him off. Finally, he told me
that he was willing to investigate the rumors about dead dinosaur sightings on
Costa Rican islands by planning a whole field expedition, and that he wanted my
help. Figuring that it would get him off my case, I accepted his proposal. I
doubted that the sightings were real, until a few weeks later.
During the following weeks, I had been taking Levine’s
theory a bit more seriously, and tried to practice walking without a cane, in
case Levine had actually found something and needed me on his expedition. One day, I received a package
from Costa Rica containing a biological sample of some sort, accompanied by a
piece of paper with the following message written on it: “I WAS RIGHT AND YOU
WERE WRONG”. It was obviously from Richard Levine.
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I took the sample to the zoo to be examined. A few days
later, I was called by a friend of mine at the zoo, Elizabeth Gelman, to meet with
her regarding the sample. Once I arrived at the zoo, she told me that whatever
I brought was nothing ordinary; the skin was much like that of a lizard,
however, according to cells located deeper within the sample, the animal must
have been warm-blooded, like a bird. She also said that the immune system of
the animal may be very unusual. And to top it off, she said that the sample
contained a radio tag, meaning the animal was raised by people!
After my meeting with Liz, I tried to call Levine from a payphone,
but there was no answer. Typical Levine.
And that is all that has happened so far. What do you think of
all of this? Is it nonsense, or should I really believe Levine is onto
something?
Until next time,
Ian Malcolm.
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