![]() ![]() Why study dinosaurs, and what can they teach us about the planet we live on? Let's join narrator Joanna Bartholomew and find out on today's episode of Vision Vibes. According to Steve, modern technology and global information-sharing have made researching dinosaurs more exciting, interesting and important than ever. Professor Steve Brusatte is an American paleontologist and best-selling author. Today's guest brought all of those childhood feelings rushing back. They were all rooted in a thirst for discovery and curiosity toward the unknown. Now though, looking back, I find that they all had something in common. At the time, I didn't really understand what any of these jobs entailed, and I ended up going down an entirely different career path. And like a lot of kids from my generation, after Jurassic Park, I wanted to be a paleontologist. After Ghostbusters, I wanted to be a physicist. After Indiana Jones I wanted to become an archeologist. What did you want to be as a kid? For me, it really depended on the movies I was watching. ![]() This story was originally broadcast on television as part of NHK WORLD-JAPAN's interview series Direct Talk. Now you don’t need to turn Airplane Mode on or disconnect your Internet connection to relish Chrome Dino playtime.Draft transcript Alex Steullet / Host: I'm Alex Steullet, and this is Vision Vibes. The T-Rex game was first introduced in September 2014, but it did not work on earlier Android OS versions so that Google developers fully completed their brainchild only by December that year. ![]() While designing the game, the engineers thought about allotting Dino more features like roaring and kicking but refused this idea to keep the game maximally simplistic or “prehistoric”. And the game’s pixel style is the reference to Google browser’s error illustrations.Ĭhrome dinosaur offline game got the nickname “Project Bolan” in honor of Marc Bolan, the frontman of “T-Rex’, a legendary rock band of the 1970s. Chrome developer Sebastien Gabriel says that their no internet game is the nod to the prehistoric ages, millions of years before the technological boom. ![]()
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