Posted on 11/06/2020 9:22:33 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Around 600,000 years ago, humanity split in two. One group stayed in Africa, evolving into us. The other struck out overland, into Asia, then Europe, becoming Homo neanderthalensis - the Neanderthals. They weren't our ancestors, but a sister species, evolving in parallel.
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Crazy Ted Holden has an interesting take on the impossibility of the larger dinosaurs having the muscle strength to stand in Earth’s current gravity. Elephants are as big as it gets on the planet these days. Ted presents data on muscle strength as a function of cross section of muscle mass vs compression loading on legs and hips and tension loading on necks and tails. The largest dinos stood around 40’ tall. Computing for pressure gives a pressure of about 18 lbs in sq, whereas human blood pressure is about 2 lbs per in sq. A human blood pressure of 3 lbs per in sq would blow out into an anurism and cause blood to leak into the lymph system and cause fatal swelling throughout the body. So unless dinosaur had galvanized pipe for blood vessels, there is a serious hydrostatic issue there.
Additionally, the cantilever forces on neck and tail sinews with the dino’s neck extended horizontally would tear any sort of collagen molecule cabling that known biology would be capable of.
There is also the problem of pressure head in pumping blood to the dinosaur’s head. Giraffes are barely able to pump blood to their brains and easily suffer cardiovascular collapse when highly stressed. Pumping blood any higher than a giraffe’s head would lead to congestive heart failure and bleeding out through capillary permeability.
Frankly, I think crazy Ted hammered it on this one, but I am aware that he goes off the deep end on other of his fave issues. And, yah, neanderthal eye sockets aren’t really that much bigger than cromagnon eye sockets, and eyeball size certainly is no indicator of enhanced night vision.
Here’s a suggestion - instead of waving people off a particular theory as crackpot, why not point to the crackpot’s evidence and let people decide for themselves. Here’s Ted’s analysis of dinosaur scaling -
http://www.bearfabrique.org/Catastrophism/sauropods/biganims.html
Can't be posted to FR on copyright grounds, but click on the link and read the last paragraph, that's where the money is:
How do humans and Neanderthals have a common ancestor in Africa if Neanderthal DNA doesn't show up in modern Africans?
To Neanderthals...They are much smarter than the Democrats...
The "Neanderthal not human hoax" precedes any DNA tracing.
“while MacArthur announced that he and his family intended to “share the fate of the garrison” on Corregidor, he ultimately left.”
Reliable sources say that he had written out and signed his resignation, and was preparing to ride over to Bataan to enlist and fight as a private, when his wife took him into a room for a little chat. Apparently no one knows what she said, but when they emerged he obeyed his orders from President Roosevelt.
“anything other than this madness could be the elixir needed over the next four years.”
After four years of leftwad misrule, the United States—which is to say, truth, justice, and the American way—will have disappeared from the surface of this planet for a thousand years.
I felt the same way during the Carter years, Obama, and a few other times in this Nation's history.
I'm not saying this is all great, or Trump should give up, or let's hold hands and get along. However, America's eulogy has been drafted several times. I don't think we're at The End right now.
Well, I hope that you are right and I am wrong.
Part of it has to do with evolution. Making the Neanderthals humans does away with a lot of link evidence. That is the sane and rational supposition.
Crackpot conspiracy theory follows but stay with me.
Let's say we manage to clone a Neanderthal. If they are not human why then they are animals and thus property.
There are a bunch of people in the world who do not like the fact that in advanced countries slavery is done away with. And it is not just the guys on top either. There are some bottom dwellers who wish there were still slaves around just because then they would have someone to feel superior to.
There is a movement on to make "not quite humans" who can be harvested and used like property.
People have some dark stuff in their souls.
Axe heads flying off and hitting someone in the head and accidentally killing them was such a common problem that it was actually used as the example of someone committing accidental homicide.
The killer was to flee to one of the seven cities of refuge where he would be allowed to live in safety from the "avenger of blood", the relatives of the person he accidentally killed.
Having used a handled stone axe I can see how it could be a problem.
Thanks HTB.
Neanderthals were very like us. We're remarkably similar in our skull and skeletal anatomy, and share 99.7 percent of our DNA.
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