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Ancient Warming Shrunk Horses to Housecat Size
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| Feb. 23, 2012
| Stephanie Pappas
Posted on 02/23/2012 11:33:29 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY
It is sort of funny - in a very sick/dark kind of way.
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posted on
02/23/2012 11:35:57 AM PST
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Eldon Tyrell
(question,.)
To: steelyourfaith
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posted on
02/23/2012 11:37:16 AM PST
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Thunder90
(Fighting for truth and the American way... http://citizensfortruthandtheamericanway.blogspot.com/)
To: Free ThinkerNY
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posted on
02/23/2012 11:37:56 AM PST
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WayneS
(Comments now include 25% more sarcasm for no additional charge...)
To: Eldon Tyrell
Yeah but i still want one
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posted on
02/23/2012 11:38:18 AM PST
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al baby
(Hi Mom)
To: Free ThinkerNY
“The earliest-known horse Sifrhippus started out this period as a bit of a pipsqueak: The animals weighed only about 12 pounds (5.6 kilograms) on average, about the size of a miniature schnauzer.”
Liberal solution- Shrink the size of human beings in order to be able ride a 12 lb. horse.
To: Free ThinkerNY
Sea horses! A big thing for kiddies in the late 50s.
To: Free ThinkerNY
How about giraffes?
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02/23/2012 11:40:01 AM PST
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dfwgator
(Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Then it must have cooled down again, because the last I checked horses were pretty dang big. Good thing too. What fun would it be going to the track and watching cat size horses? And what would cowboys ride? Would be a sad day indeed watching old movies with John Wayne sliding off a elephant.
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02/23/2012 11:40:20 AM PST
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NavyCanDo
To: Thunder90; carolinablonde; marvlus; ApplegateRanch; Berlin_Freeper; Genesis defender; golux; ...
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02/23/2012 11:40:55 AM PST
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steelyourfaith
(Expel the Occupy White House squatters !!!)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Now, new research reveals that these changes occurred in lockstep with temperature fluctuations during the period. Evidently, "temperature fluctuations" are totally normal.
But let's pretend they aren't so we can demagogue the issue.
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02/23/2012 11:41:07 AM PST
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Joe the Pimpernel
(Islam is a religion of peace, and Moslems reserve the right to dismember anyone who says otherwise.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
I'd like to know if anything else was considered before blaming “glowbull warming”...
Anybody wanna make a bet?
To: Free ThinkerNY
Guess what... we weren’t there “destroying the ozone layer” at that point...which means human beings have nothing whatsoever to do with “global warming,” if it does in fact exist.
The earth has warmed and cooled several times over its many millenia. Mediaeval Europe suffered through a horrible cold period that we cannot even imagine and human beings had nothing to do with it.
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02/23/2012 11:41:14 AM PST
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livius
To: Free ThinkerNY
Wow so in other words this has happened before. How incredibly man made. Did Al Gores caveman ancestor demand payment? Don’t tell me: He sat on his ass all day while cavemen paid him in skins and rocks for starting fires.
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02/23/2012 11:41:20 AM PST
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GrandJediMasterYoda
(How ironic that Ann Coulter should write a book called Treason.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
To: Free ThinkerNY
Ancient Warming Shrunk Horses to Housecat Size But what did it shrink housecats down too... I Wants me a hamster kitty!!!
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posted on
02/23/2012 11:46:28 AM PST
by
apillar
To: Free ThinkerNY
So did dinosaurs shrink to lizards? I bet they did.
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posted on
02/23/2012 11:47:15 AM PST
by
sodpoodle
( Newt - God has tested him for a reason...... to bring America back from the brink.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
This really plays havoc with Darwin's theory and the rules for predators.
Are all these scientists smoking something or what?
To: dfwgator
I call BS on this. Shrink in size of species tends to be a product of scarcity of food. (For example see North Korean’s decline in average height).
If temperature had anything to do with it then why are African Elephants still so large today?
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02/23/2012 11:48:32 AM PST
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RC51
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