Timeline for How does Dr. Grant know the Tyrannosaurus Rex won't see him?
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| Dec 15, 2016 at 1:01 | comment | added | Mikey | @JoelCoehoorn - alas, except Dr Grant talked about staying still back in Montana at the beginning of the film. | |
| Jul 6, 2016 at 16:22 | comment | added | Blazemonger | @Glen_b Stationary things appear to move (relative to you) when you're moving. | |
| Jan 27, 2016 at 12:58 | comment | added | DevSolar | @Glen_b: To this day, humans are much better at spotting movement than stationary objects. That doesn't mean we're bumping into things either... | |
| Jan 27, 2016 at 3:02 | comment | added | Glen_b | "They don't see unmoving things well at all" ... which makes one wonder how they don't constantly smack into trees (/walls) and trip over rocks and logs (or cars, tables, etc). | |
| Jan 27, 2016 at 3:00 | comment | added | Joel Coehoorn | I like to think of it this way: Grant had seen enough to know if he moved, he was dead for sure. May as well try staying still. | |
| Jan 26, 2016 at 20:58 | comment | added | Luaan | @RexKerr Actually, I'm pretty sure I read an admission by Crichton that it was one of his scientific errors in the foreword to The Lost World (and humorously, Ian (resurrected for the sequel - in the original novel, he was presumed dead at the end), mentions that this is obviously absurd). I'm not sure if it was simply a mistake of his, or if the prevalent opinion at the time was that T. Rex indeed didn't see static objects. In any case, you probably read the original novel, rather than the "Book of the movie" version, where this was retconned (and Ian didn't die). | |
| Jan 26, 2016 at 20:27 | comment | added | Rex Kerr | Can you please animate that with some JavaScript or something? I'm having trouble understanding you. :) | |
| Jan 26, 2016 at 20:25 | comment | added | Valorum | @RexKerr - I'm wondering if it's because the words were static on the page. | |
| Jan 26, 2016 at 20:23 | comment | added | Rex Kerr | Wow, that's pretty far off. I wonder why I never noticed that when I read the book? Maybe it was because of my basic lancelet visual system. | |
| Jan 26, 2016 at 19:00 | history | answered | Valorum | CC BY-SA 3.0 |