it seems that most of us agree that fighting over dinosaur bones is petty and stupid. but i don't know. i'm trying to put myself in the shoes of someone on the verge of a breakthrough. it's actually pretty easy. if i dedicated my life to studying something like... the universe, and i've been working my ass off to figure out how to prove that it is expanding infinitely. if some asshole that used to be my roommate in college or something discovered how to prove it before me, i'd kill him.
It sucks that humans are so territorial with things, even science which is supposed to be an enlightened subject. but my ex roommate would be the one in the history books, and my pride would get the best of me. science is important, and unfortunately we get caught up in the drama behind the scenes. But discovering something as exciting as a new dinosaur species, or even a new skeleton, is a big deal. Remember that skeleton they found under that Jefferson museum? That was a big deal, and even though I don't remember the name of the person that discovered it, they will get the credit. Not the person who said they should excavate 30 years ago, but the one who actually did it. Science is competitive too, and we forget that. But knowledge is power.
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