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Man 'Not To Blame' For Extinction Of Giant Wombat
The Telegraph (UK) ^
| 5-31-2005
| Roger Highfield
Posted on 05/30/2005 5:38:51 PM PDT by blam
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posted on
05/30/2005 5:38:52 PM PDT
by
blam
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
05/30/2005 5:39:47 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
Another, by a Queensland team, suggests it was climate change, rather than early Australian aborigines, that killed off the "megafauna".Clearly, it was aboriginal CO2.
To: blam
Okay... quick, now: which one's the giant wombat...?:)
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posted on
05/30/2005 5:41:21 PM PDT
by
KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
("As a conservative site, Free Republic is pro-G-d, PRO-LIFE..." -- FR founder Jim Robinson)
To: blam
Man 'not to blame' for extinction of giant wombat I told you I didn't do it! Besides, hasn't the statute of limitations run out by now?
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posted on
05/30/2005 5:41:25 PM PDT
by
Coyoteman
To: blam
Diprotodon? Cool!
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posted on
05/30/2005 5:44:28 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ...... The War on Terrorism is the ultimate 'faith-based' initiative.)
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Okay... quick, now: which one's the giant wombat...? LOL. If that thing in the background is a giant wombat, I'm glad it's extinct. Could you imagine running from one of those?
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posted on
05/30/2005 5:47:29 PM PDT
by
SIDENET
("Some people are desperate for whatever they're desperate for," - Bubba Fink)
To: blam
humans co-existed with megafauna Damn that megafauna...it's gonna be the death of us all!
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posted on
05/30/2005 5:49:42 PM PDT
by
SIDENET
("Some people are desperate for whatever they're desperate for," - Bubba Fink)
To: Coyoteman
Man 'not to blame' for extinction of giant wombat
Oh thank GOD! Now I can sleep at night
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posted on
05/30/2005 5:51:18 PM PDT
by
commonasdirt
(Reading DU so you won't hafta)
To: blam
By 30,000 years ago the world was in the grip of a major Ice Age. "While these findings do not free humans of all blame for the extinctions, they demonstrate that extinction was a gradual process, strongly implicating climate change as the driving mechanism," said Ms Field. Climate change? Obviously early man was driving around in SUVs to cause this.
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posted on
05/30/2005 5:51:51 PM PDT
by
CzarNicky
(The problem with bad ideas is that they seemed like good ideas at the time.)
To: SIDENET
Could you imagine running from one of those? I would run from the one in the foreground for sure.
The one in the back might make a tasty barbecue.
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posted on
05/30/2005 5:53:15 PM PDT
by
MrBambaLaMamba
(Buy 'Allah' brand urinal cakes - If you can't kill the enemy at least you can piss on their god)
To: commonasdirt
There is no , I REPEAT NO, cork in my wombat.
No pine tar either.
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posted on
05/30/2005 5:53:49 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: blam
The dig failed to unearth evidence of human activity, indicating that people did not inhabit the region at the same time as megafauna. The big animals consumed little peace and animal loving people - wiping out prehistoric traces of liberals. They must have left one somewhere, because they reared their ugly heads again.
To: blam
Whew! That's a load off my mind.
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posted on
05/30/2005 5:55:11 PM PDT
by
IronJack
To: tet68
Wombat? Since they've been dead for so long, I suggest a better name would be "Coldbat."
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posted on
05/30/2005 5:57:31 PM PDT
by
Oberon
(What does it take to make government shrink?)
To: Oberon
The only wombat I know is James Lunday from In A Fix.
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posted on
05/30/2005 5:59:43 PM PDT
by
MsGail61
To: blam
Man 'Not To Blame' For Extinction Of Giant WombatSo it was his wife, then?
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posted on
05/30/2005 6:00:27 PM PDT
by
sourcery
(Resistance is futile: We are the Blog)
To: SIDENET
According to the theories I've heard about how fast those things move you could probably get away with strolling away from them.
The biggest threat those things would pose if they were still around is as a traffic hazard. If that thing is built as dense as a wombat is and developed the same habit of wandering onto highways it'd probably total anything that ran into it.
To: blam; Eaker
Humans may have been unjustly accused of wiping out the giant kangaroos, wombats and other massive marsupials that roamed Australia 40,000 years ago, new research suggests. Thats bull.
Eaker killed 'em and I have the pictures.
To: humblegunner; blam; Eaker
I think it was my coffee actually.
Made them all hyper and sploded their hearts.
/ joke joke.
Pretty cool critters, wish there were some still left.
(Of course, the carnifex critter would have been a tough customer.)
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posted on
05/30/2005 6:09:46 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Hey troll, Sith happens.)
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