[Metaphorically, the skeletal brontosaurus represents the scientist""s stripped-down, calcified, dead life lacking youthful vitality and activity.On the huge wall of glass are distorted reflections of midtown Manhattan from below, with yellow taxis at rush hour moving back and forth.That means either boiling water or steam." It is hypothesized hat the dead man may have been scalded by the steam engine of the rain involved in the holdup.Clark was miffed to learn from the boy that Lois, as her old friend before Jason was born, had "never mentioned" his existence.