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Coincidence vs Chaos 

A few things of note from the past week: 

1. They (scientists) recently found 50-million-year-old bugs encased in amber in the Indian rainforest. 
2. Friday October 22nd was the actor Jeff Goldblum's birthday.  This year he turned a whopping 58 years of age. 

These two seemingly unrelated facts may seem uninteresting and useless... to the untrained eye.

Let me teach you a lesson, dear readers, in critical thinking about things that really don't matter or make much sense.

Not only were they (scientists) able to extract perfectly preserved 50-million-year-old bugs using toluene and chloroform due to the unique soft nature of the Indian amber, dating the rainforest back before the Miocene as originally speculated, placing it as over 60-million-years-old, and Jeff Goldblum has now grown one year closer to the obscurity we have all been anticipating since his small-screen debut on Law and Order: Criminal Intent...

BUT 

these two strands of information are actually more closely circulating then we could ever imagine.

I saw these at first as completely coincidental, but looking closely at the teachings of chaos theory, nothing is random.  It is all deterministic, yet completely unpredictable.

True fans may have predicted by now the juncture where chaos theory has brought Jeff Goldblum to insects encased in amber....

 boom...boom...

...a 1990 novel written by Michael Chriton adopted in 1993 into the Steven Spielberg motion picture "Jurassic Park." 

We all know what this means.

A wealthy billionaire and dinosaur enthusiast will clone the dinosaur DNA found within a mosquito from the amberand create an island theme park on an island near Cosa Rica, with the main attraction being, you guessed it, dinosaurs (all female, of course) where a couple anthropologists, their bratty kids, and a researcher will get stuck while the gates are opened as a bumbling research tech tries to steal embryos for [insert generic rival corporation name] and make a couple bucks. 
They will survive, barely, just in time to make a sequel and eventually a trilogy. 

Let's hope this doesn't happen again (and again, and again, and again).

 

I'm not saying that I'm not curious to see what it would be like to ride around on a triceratops, obviously that is an ideal situation.  I'm just stating that although it would seem to be a hilarious and thoughtful gesture to create dinosaurs for Jeff's birthday, it would be ill-conceived and a little insensitive. We all (no one) saw Jurassic Park III.  Goldblum doesn't make an appearance. 

A world with dinosaurs but without Jeff Goldblum is a world I want no part it.

But, as the ever insightful Dr. Ian Malcolm says, "I'm simply saying that life, uh... finds a way."