Re: Relative sizes

[JCMcL <darwincr@laplaza.taos.nm.us>]

 On Wed, 24 Jan 1996, Steve Jackson wrote:

> Stephen Hurrell notes that:
> 
> > After the extinction of the Dinosaurs a range of Supergiant Mammals
> > approaching the size of the smaller Dinosaurs evolved. These Supergiant
> > Mammals were superseded by Giant Mammals which were larger
> > versions of the Mammals alive today. These Giant Mammals have in
> > their turn died out to be replaced by a smaller scale of life.
> 
> Since this is a question of relative sizes, I'm sure there's a
> McLoughlinist explanation. I would venture, in the spirit of J.McL., that
> this apparent phenomenon is merely relative, since as we all know the
> Universe has been getting larger. Therefore, modern creatures might
> actually be as large as dinosaurs on some completely unavailable absolute
> scale . . . but relative to the size of the Universe, they're much smaller.
> 
> Steve Jackson, sj@io.com - this will do till I fix my .sig file . . .
> 
> 
No.  As The McLoughlin, I suggest that the Universe is actually 
shrinking, so that I now have the approximate mass and temperament of a 
Deinocheiru, though you wuouldn't know it from looking at mild lil ol 
me.  So watch out.