“What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground,” Myhrvold explains. How could he say no to the great Jack Horner? (“If the ‘Jurassic Park’ thing happens,” he says, “this is where the dinosaurs will come to eat.”) One of the scholarly achievements he is proudest of is a paper he co-wrote proving that it was theoretically possible for sauropods-his favorite kind of dinosaur-to have snapped their tails back and forth faster than the speed of sound. His front garden is planted entirely with vegetation from the Mesozoic era.
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(Imagine a floor tiled in a pattern that never repeats.) When Myhrvold built his own house, on the shores of Lake Washington, outside Seattle-a vast, silvery hypermodernist structure described by his wife as the place in the sci-fi movie where the aliens live-he embedded some sixty aperiodic patterns in the walls, floors, and ceilings. He is obsessed with aperiodic tile patterns. He started Microsoft’s research division, leaving, in 1999, with hundreds of millions. He graduated from high school at fourteen. He is gregarious, enthusiastic, and nerdy on an epic scale. Myhrvold is of Nordic extraction, and he looks every bit the bearded, fair-haired Viking-not so much the tall, ferocious kind who raped and pillaged as the impish, roly-poly kind who stayed home by the fjords trying to turn lead into gold. Between takes, the two men got to talking, and Horner asked Myhrvold if he was interested in funding dinosaur expeditions. Myhrvold was there because he really likes dinosaurs. Horner is an eminent paleontologist, and was a consultant on the movie. Nathan Myhrvold met Jack Horner on the set of the “Jurassic Park” sequel in 1996.
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