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The Pleistocene Extinction
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Posted on 07/25/2003 7:32:42 PM PDT by ckilmer
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posted on
07/25/2003 7:32:42 PM PDT
by
ckilmer
To: PatrickHenry
Ping!!
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posted on
07/25/2003 7:34:34 PM PDT
by
AntiGuv
(™)
To: ckilmer
That's what happens when you shift the north pole from Hudson Bay to where it is now.
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posted on
07/25/2003 7:36:43 PM PDT
by
djf
To: djf
when did that happen?
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posted on
07/25/2003 7:40:57 PM PDT
by
ckilmer
To: djf
That's what happens when you shift the north pole from Hudson Bay to where it is now. What did GWB know about this and when did he know it?
Who / what was the intell source on this? Sounds to me like this administration has misled me!
LVM
To: ckilmer
I've heard alot of guestimates. They average about 11,600 yrs ago.
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posted on
07/25/2003 7:43:15 PM PDT
by
djf
To: ckilmer
Very nice, but the article is over 20 years old. No serious scholar today believes in complete uniformitarianism.
Stephen Jay Goulds theory of "Punctuated Equilibrium" has completely displaced it.
This article is so out of date that the daring young Dr. Gould cited for his early articles, has since become one of the most famous Natural Scientists of all time, and has died of old age.
So9
To: LasVegasMac
Do a google on "Hugh Auchincloss Brown"
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posted on
07/25/2003 7:48:41 PM PDT
by
djf
To: AntiGuv
seems to me the most important question would be: how does one ascertain the frequency of such catastrophes? It's nice to know it's happened before but that wont do us any good if it suddenly happens again next tuesday, y'know?
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posted on
07/25/2003 7:54:00 PM PDT
by
ahadams2
To: Servant of the Nine
Nevertheless, I liked the way he focused on the 'bone-islands' of Northern Siberia. That was the one compelling data-point in Velikovsky's 'Worlds in Collision'.
Something sure as H*ll happened all of a sudden!
To: LasVegasMac
You failed to take the next logical step.
You must demand that George W Bush return the north pole to the Hudson river, where it belongs. The environment destroying Republicans and their Big Business allies must restore the previous state of nature.
Wow, this is fun. I'm going to become a liberal. Life is so much easier.
To: ahadams2
seems to me the most important question would be: how does one ascertain the frequency of such catastrophes?Wrong.
The most important question is, how much harder did this impact Pleistocene women and minorities?
To: ckilmer
The question is: "What would kill all the 6 foot beavers, and leave all the 2 foot beavers?
Once you have an answer that fits both, then you have the answer to what happened.
To: djf
Do a google on "Hugh Auchincloss Brown" Ok, I did.
955 returns on the search.
I spent 23 seconds (my limit - same limit I use for e-mail, by the way) scanning the first two links.
The first link said he was known as a bit of a crack pot.
Next clue?
LVM
To: waterstraat
The two foot beavers probably ducked.
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posted on
07/25/2003 8:19:09 PM PDT
by
U S Army EOD
(Served in Vietnam and Korea and still fighting America's enemies on the home front)
To: ckilmer
I think one could compare this event with Hillary being elected President of the United States.
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posted on
07/25/2003 8:20:08 PM PDT
by
U S Army EOD
(Served in Vietnam and Korea and still fighting America's enemies on the home front)
To: LasVegasMac
A man was born in 1880. He earned his PHD in astronomy. But he was always interested in geology. By looking at maps and fossil evidence, he came up with a theory, and published it.
He was widely and loudly denounced by his critics as a crackpot. He died on an expedition to Greenland in 1930, his theory totally denied by modern science.
Then, about 1950, they started mapping the ocean floor and discovered the mid-atlantic ridge. They finally had to accept his theory, but instead of calling it "Continental Drift", they called it "Plate Tectonics"
The most astounding and revealing theory of Geology ever discovered was invented by an astronomer, Alfred Wegener, and never accepted in his lifetime.
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posted on
07/25/2003 8:21:34 PM PDT
by
djf
To: Castlebar
LOL - no wonder I never wrote a successful grant request! I guess this means we have to now require the folks digging out the various frozen flora and fauna to keep track of all related gender issues as well? :-)
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posted on
07/25/2003 8:27:26 PM PDT
by
ahadams2
To: djf
Maybe the melting of the ice in the high (at that time) Northern Latitudes caused a displacement of the Earth's axis.
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posted on
07/25/2003 8:46:57 PM PDT
by
Mike Darancette
(RATS: We're sorry Saddam.)
To: ahadams2
Gender issues? Shhhhh. Be careful even mentioning gender. The liberal thought police will take you away for writing the word, much less speaking it.
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posted on
07/25/2003 8:55:35 PM PDT
by
11B3
(We live in "interesting times". Indeed.)
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