The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes:
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization
by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith
GGG Ping.
Absolutley amazing that these fellas remained after 47000 years!
My freezer goes out of power for like one day and all the meat is ruined.
Those Siberian freezers must be sumthin else!
I mean even if I leave a steak in there for oh...say, 6 months, it’s ruined.
47000 years?
just dam!
If global climate changed and humans were not the cause, then that means that climate change is normal and animal extinctions are normal.
“This discovery is particularly interesting because it rules out human hunting as a contributing factor, leaving climate change and disease as the most probable causes of extinction.”
Of course, the humans had to be to blame for the climate change, so it was the humans who did them in anyway.
Those Woolly Mammoths couldn't by carbon offsets fast enough, I guess...
They didn't mention the other catch phrase,..
Habitat Destruction
Questions that I have asked and received no answers:
1. In the frozen place that they were found, what was growing that they could eat?
2. If they froze so quickly that they were preserved along with their food how quick did the climate have to change for this to happen? (My freezer does not do that)
“”This discovery is particularly interesting because it rules out human hunting as a contributing factor, leaving climate change and disease as the most probable causes of extinction.””
That’s a pretty sweet argument for hunting and from a scientist. I realize that’s not the conclusion he was probably going for. Since the Libs say we’re doomed because of global warming and disease is rampant, we might as well go hunt the critters before they all drop dead.
My neighbor here in central Texas
found a 12 foot mammoth tusk in his yard.
I saw it. He sold it for $200.
It is kind of a holy grail for many scientists to figure out a way to bring back the woolly mammoth. They not only have figured out the process, but a preserve has been set aside in Siberia in case it works.
I gather they intend to start with a mammoth-elephant hybrid, then over several generations, to replace the elephant DNA with mammoth DNA, eventually creating the closest thing to a pure mammoth.
http://www.luckyninja.com/flash/elephants.swf
Innerestin’
If man didn't cause the first extinction, who are the doofus dingbats gonna blame for the poor critters' demise?
The next thing these neo-con “scientists” will tell us is that humans didnt cause the Ice Age! Fascists! /s
The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes:
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization
by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith
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"The population was split into two groups, then one of the groups died out 45,000 years ago, long before the first humans began to appear in the region," said Stephan C. Schuster, associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Penn State University and a leader of the research team. "This discovery is particularly interesting because it rules out human hunting as a contributing factor..." ...The bodies of these mammoths were found throughout a wide swathe of northern Siberia. Their dates of death span roughly 47,000 years, ranging from about 13,000 years ago to about 60,000 years ago... "This low genetic divergence is surprising because the woolly mammoth had an extraordinarily wide range: from Western Europe, to the Bering Strait in Siberia, to Northern America," Miller said... "Our study suggests a genetic divergence of the two woolly-mammoth groups more than 1-million years ago, which is one quarter the genetic distance that separates Indian and African elephants and woolly mammoths," Miller said.
Yet another example of why these scientific theories should never be taken too seriously.
Fresh mammoth tracks sighted in Canada in 1811
