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`` Why ? '' asked Tom . `` We have to go deep into the thicket , '' Astro explained , using the local term for the jungle , `` so that at high noon we can make camp and take a break . You ca n't move out there at noon . It gets so hot you 'd fall on your face after fifteen minutes of fighting the creepers . '' `` Everything stops at noon , '' added Sinclair . `` Even the tyrannosaurus .