Posted on 06/10/2010 6:35:11 PM PDT by shibumi
A commonly occurring phenomenon seen in the folklore and myth of a wide range of cultures throughout the world is the existence of miniature humanoid creatures. Faeries, dwarves, leprechauns, or by whatever other names they are known, mysterious little people of various types have consistently emerged as important elements of folklore across the globe since time unremembered.
On the island of Hokkaido, in the cold northern reaches of the Japanese archipelago, the indigenous Ainu people too have their long traditions of an ancient race of dwarf-like people thought to have inhabited the land long before humans arrived.
(Excerpt) Read more at cryptomundo.com ...
But, what do the genes show?
Sorry, I don't know.
Hmmm...one would think that the population geneticists would have gone after the DNA in Koreans, Japanese and the Ainu.
“do i hear singing in the background?”
Short people got no reason
Short people got no reason
Short people got no reason
To live
They got little hands
Little eyes
They walk around
Tellin’ great big lies
They got little noses
And tiny little teeth
They wear platform shoes
On their nasty little feet
Well, I don’t want no short people
Don’t want no short people
Don’t want no short people
`Round here
bump
Noah.
+ His wife.
+ The three sons’ wives.
= Five major people groups.
Neither are there an easily separable “five major people groups”, where are you going to draw the line on that chart to get five, and how far do you have to squiggle the line to make it five?
"We no rike story
You piss us off too much...
we come rook for you!"
Theo/Metaphysical question:
Does belief in Godzilla necessitate belief in Devilzilla?
I know of two palaeontologists who have made comments on various of Godzilla's physical properties. Jim Farlow, a palaeobiologist based at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, and best known for his work on dinosaur trackways, speculated in 1998 on the foot size of TriStar's GINO. Jim noted that he'd 'probably have to log-transform the measurements to get [the data from the toes] onto the same graphs with my other data without scrunching the other points into an indecipherable blur near the origin'. He also noted that it might prove difficult to cast even a single Godzilla footprint given grant limitations and the cost of plaster of Paris, silicone or latex rubber. Sadly, Prof Farlow never published his thoughts on this subject and all we have is a message posted to the dinosaur mailing list
...then run!
http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2007/02/the_science_of_godzilla_1.php
Please note comment #37, below the main article.
(The question still remains.)
"(The question still remains.)"
Yes, and no.
[I should'a been a politician, because I have all the answers.]
"... why yes, in early April, I did unload millions of dollars in BP stock, - and invest the returns in Petrobas' deep sea oil drilling efforts off the Brazilian coast.
Look, - I got a great tip from my pal George Soros.
Eh, ... why do you ask...?".
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