Posted on 10/17/2005 8:57:32 AM PDT by Fzob
Huh! Hadn't read your post when I sent mine -- but good minds think alike.
Then test it. Until then, it's just an educated guess. Much like many scientific theories.
Great. Now someone will file a class action suit on behalf of the extinct mammoths for reparations, claiming Bush and Halliburton caused the supernova.
By the way, elephants are endangered in Africa. It's not the climate that's endangering them.
Exactly! It was the land-raping, politically incorrect injuns!
Thank you! Finally a theory that fits observations! I'll watch developments on this closely. Great catch!
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NO NO they just worked the numbers backward to 250 light years.
Thank you! Finally a theory that fits observations! I'll watch developments on this closely. Great catch!
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NO NO they just worked the numbers backward to 250 light years.
BUSH IS THE CAUSE
Actually, the fossil record shows that extinctions happened pretty much everywhere when people first showed up. The large, slow, docile animals were killed off, and only the ones that were either fast enough to elude us, strong enough to confront us (ever seen a pissed off elephant?), or bred fast enough to replentish their losses survived. The giant sloth and armadillo were easy pickings and had lots of meat, so they went first. Larger animals like the mastodon bred so slowly that their numbers simply dwindled under the constant human culling. The previous apex predators like the cave bears and sabre tooth tigers died off simply because we hunted out their food sources. There was nothing left for them to eat other than the faster animals, and the leaner cougars and wolves were simply better suited to that kind of hunting. There's absolutely nothing far-fetched about any of this, so I don't see why it's so controversial.
If you move into a foreign area and have to live off the land, are you going to work your butt off hunting down a fast antelope with a heavy spear, or are you going to kill the tasty sloth that can only run 3MPH?
When humans moved in, we became the new apex predator and we altered the ecological balance accordingly. This is simply the way the world works.
OK so when is there going to be a hollywood action movie about some evil cosmic cloud coming to wipe out life on earth?
Bush's Fault
Hey ... if Superman can get here that way, so can a comet-like body.
Does anybody find it ironic that the theory of global catastrophy caused by flaming meteors and stoney comets was presented by a fellow named 'Firestone'? ...and co-founded as being the cause of destruction in the western hemisphere from a vanAllen belt like penetration by a geologist named Allen West?
That would not impact a mastodon tusk - that would preferate the mastodon tusk.
Don't tell me,...the next World of Elephants international conference will be held in ....Tuscany?
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--" I supppose women/minorities were impacted mostly back then. "--
Yeah - Mastodon women & minorities....
Don't know if you had a chance to see this yet.
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