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From: pamp@bcsaic.UUCP (pam pincha)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: more on large animals and gravity
Message-ID: <257@bcsaic.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 30-Aug-85 16:44:13 EDT
Article-I.D.: bcsaic.257
Posted: Fri Aug 30 16:44:13 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 5-Sep-85 07:39:27 EDT
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Reply-To: pamp@bcsaic.UUCP (pam pincha)
Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle
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Summary: 

In article <382@imsvax.UUCP> ted@imsvax.UUCP (Ted Holden) writes:
>               The  notion  that  humans  exterminated  most of the world's
>          mega-fauna  is  idiotic  and  worthy  of  ridicule.   
>  Picture
>          ancient man  exterminating EVERY  SINGLE ONE  of the double-sized
>          super-rhinos or megalotheriums on  this  planet  with  knives and
>          spears.  That  is what  Bill Jefferys,  Stan Friesen  et al would
>          have  us  believe  happened.


AAAAARGH!!!!!!!!!!:-)
I CARE TO DIFFER WITH THE BLANTENT MISDIRECTION OF THIS ARTICLE!

In my reading of the articles listed (and the ones the I have posted)
NO WHERE was it stated that man killed off ALL the mega-fauna!!!!!!!
In fact I SPECIFICALLY STATED that was not the case!!! READ YOUR
ARTICLES CAREFULLY!!!!

All it takes is depleting a certian amount of the population
below its critical mass to cause it to die out.(THIS is what is
happening currently!) Once this happens, Nature does the rest.
Now if this happens to an important link in the food chain,
other species (carnivores especially) die off too because of a lack
of food! This tends to be a cascading effect that can affect
several groups -- especially during times of stress due to
environmental transistions such as the period just after a major
ice age!! It is not difficult. What we have happening today is
very similar.

Point 2 - In regard to no fauna recorded being wiped out over an
entire continent until recently __WRONG!WRONG!WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!
This has happened quite frequently throughout geologic history.
The most distinctive of these are the INDEX FOSSILS geologist
use all the time to distinquish ceertian areas, and time periods.
These are very significant and usefull indicators.
So on this point you have been grossly mislead!!

Point 3 - No ancient calendar having more than 360 days. Please!
Look up the Olmec calendar(which later became the Mayan calendar)
for accurate calendars. They not only had 365 days they had
compensations for all leap year contingencies.Their calendar
rivals ours (and is in some ways better)for accuracy! What are
you trying to prove with that statement?

Point 4 - In reguards to the texts used on dinosaur calculations
and such. These texts wouldn't have those type of calculations
anyway! They are VERY GENERAL overview texts that make no pretentions
of being in depth texts! I suggest you check on Romers texts and
the journals (Journal of Paleontology) for you mathematical cal-
culations. The books you mentioned are beginners texts and the calculations
are long involved and BORING. General beginnig text rarely mention
such. THIS DOES NOT MEAN IT DOES EXIST!!(Another good example of the
"magical thinking"that is rampant in some of the replies on this net.
Note:That was an editorial comment Mail all flames, don't clutter
the net with them,please. Thank-you) Go look again.

Point 5 - albatrosses stop flying at thirty pounds -- condors are bigger
and heavier and BETTER at flying!

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