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Posted on 04/02/2006 2:13:59 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

Did a planetary wobble kill the dinosaurs?
by Nicola Jones
New Scientist
June 27 2001
Bruce Runnegar from the University of California at Los Angeles' Center for Astrobiology... and his colleagues used computer models to map out the Solar System for the past 250 million years. In particular, they looked at the perihelion of each planet - the point in its orbit where it is closest to the Sun. The perihelion of Earth rotates around the Sun with a period of hundreds of thousands of years. Because of subtle tugs and pulls between the planets, this period changes slightly with time... Their model suggests one of these blips significantly changed Mercury's orbit 65 million years ago. This wobble would have pulled at the asteroid belt, increasing the chances that asteroids in the Hungarias region would be knocked out of place. Now the researchers are running a fresh set of models to see how much the orbits of these asteroids changed. It wouldn't have been enough to send a shower of asteroids into the Earth, but Runnegar says the wobble could have sent a single asteroid onto collision course with our planet... Now he is planning to run his models forward in time, to see when the next potentially catastrophic planetary wobble will be.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bookmark; catastrophism; charleshapgood; dallasabbott; emiliospedicato; godsgravesglyphs; impact; pirireis; randflemath; roseflemath; spedicato; tethysocean
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To: Quix
Can anyone tell me how to copy that list in a way that copies the underlying links so I can paste them into Word or Excel and alphabetize and recopy then with the links and paste back into a post???

Something like this?


221 posted on 09/15/2009 1:17:59 PM PDT by snowsislander (NRA -- join today! 1-877-NRA-2000)
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To: snowsislander

HOW DID YOU DO IT.


222 posted on 09/15/2009 1:29:41 PM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Quix
HOW DID YOU DO IT.

I used the Firefox browser and the Emacs editor.

In Firefox, I selected the list of links, and did a right-click, which popped a menu with an option "View Selection Source". I chose that option, and that showed the list of links as html. I saved that html as a separate file via the "Save" option.

I then edited the file with Emacs; it has a function called "sort-columns" which let me easily do the sorting on the link text.

There were some anomalies due to leading special characters such as quote marks and parentheses, but they were few and easy enough to move to the correct area.

223 posted on 09/15/2009 2:18:16 PM PDT by snowsislander (NRA -- join today! 1-877-NRA-2000)
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To: snowsislander

WONDERFUL. THANKS THANKS.

I’d forgotten source code option in firefox. Thanks.


224 posted on 09/15/2009 3:32:08 PM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Quix
  1. Find the message you want to do this to.
  2. Click "reply".
  3. Use your browser to view source, or...
  4. Use your browser to save as HTML.
  5. Do your editing on the HTML file, that will work. Word even makes that somewhat easy.
  6. In Windows, right-click on the saved file's icon, and
  7. select "Open with", and
  8. select Word
Have fun, and enjoy the links.
225 posted on 09/15/2009 5:41:55 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: SunkenCiv

THX MUCH


226 posted on 09/15/2009 5:50:45 PM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Quix

Uh, not to complain, but, uh, I’m not sure I needed that one anyway. ;’) Thanks Quix!


227 posted on 09/15/2009 6:20:04 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: Quix

Though, if I *were* to alphabetize it, I’d get all anal, and isolate the leading “A “ and “The “ in the topic names, so that they would be ignored by the sort. ;’)


228 posted on 09/15/2009 6:21:18 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: Quix

Also where Bill Haley got his inspiration for “Rock Around the Clock”.


229 posted on 09/15/2009 6:27:19 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: SunkenCiv

I realized too late they didn’t include the links.

I’d have been overly anal as well and taken out the leading “A’s” and “The’s”

Alas, I haven’t gotten to my class administrivia yet for tomorrow . . . silly me.


230 posted on 09/15/2009 6:41:03 PM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: SunkenCiv

Goodness, are you as old as I am??


231 posted on 09/15/2009 6:42:02 PM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: IronKros; demlosers; jeddavis; KayEyeDoubleDee; Nikas777; Ping-Pong; Vicomte13

Hi — I’ve just gone through all the ping lists (just finished that process) to clean out the ex-FReepers. In that connection, I’ve removed you from the Catastrophism ping list.


232 posted on 03/28/2011 5:46:36 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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To: gleeaikin
New cover!

The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: Flood, Fire, and Famine in the History of Civilization The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes:
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization

by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith


233 posted on 05/01/2011 6:12:57 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2328160/posts?page=39#39


234 posted on 05/29/2011 10:23:47 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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New ping message prototype, loosely based on the APoD ping message:


235 posted on 05/29/2011 11:20:47 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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236 posted on 05/29/2011 11:22:44 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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237 posted on 05/29/2011 11:24:35 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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239 posted on 05/29/2011 11:26:27 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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240 posted on 05/29/2011 11:28:19 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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