Wednesday, April 23, 2014
How to Transport An Entire T. Rex
Popular Mechanics: The Wankel Tyrannosaurus Rex is a dinosaur with many names. The fossil's namesake is Montana rancher Kathy Wankel, who discovered the specimen on a national wildlife refuge in 1988. The dino's technical name, MOR 555, refers to the T. rex’s home for more than two decades, the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Mt. But now, the dinosaur is known by a different name: "the Nation’s T. rex". The near 65-million-year-old specimen arrived this morning at its new home at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., where he will be part of $35 million planned dinosaur hall and become the most viewed dinosaur fossil in the world.
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This is interesting to read, although very little about how to transport...but oh well. It's kind of funny to think about how important it is to control all the aspects of the transportation very carefully, and the problems they face are many, and also exactly opposite from what theatres face when moving sets. The funny thing is that while they have to not stack the dinosaur, theaters have to stack sets as high as they'll go. Instead of worrying about security, theaters have to worry about the safety of the pieces and the people opening the door. And lastly, instead of worrying about shifting during transport, theatres worry more about how to get the pieces in the front door of the space.
I was obsessed with dinosaurs as a kid, and so this article stood out to me. Somehow, the transportation of a dinosaur was never something that jumped out at me as a concern. I just haven't spent that much time thinking about these things. It occurs to me that it would be really fun (albeit stressful) to be a part of the logistics team for shipping extremely large, fragile, or otherwise strange objects. It makes me think of the video of the transport of the A380 in the middle of its assembly through the small village, I am imagining an even larger dinosaur being transported in this manner in the dead of night and it is kind of cool.
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