Re: Giant Giant Scorpions and Dino Breath

["Allan Edels" <Edels@email.msn.com>]

Jim (et al):

    I guess that 35% would be the upper limit, since any references I've
ever seen regarding potentially higher Oxygen levels all use that as the
highest level (I know  - pure speculation).

    Of course, the "spontaneous combustion of the biosphere" is also
speculation (since there is no known occurance of it).  It reminds me of the
fear that some of the Manhattan project scientists had, namely that the
detonation of the Atomic Bomb would cause a chain reaction leading to the
entire atmosphere combusting.   They still exploded it anyway......

    Allan Edels

    (By the way, I'm old enough to remember when you always capitalized Atom
Bomb)  :-)


-----Original Message-----
From: James R. Cunningham <jrccea@bellsouth.net>
To: Edels@email.msn.com <Edels@email.msn.com>
Cc: dinosaur@usc.edu <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Date: Friday, July 02, 1999 2:41 AM
Subject: Re: Giant Giant Scorpions and Dino Breath


>From memory, 35% is about the level that could be expected to result in
>spontaneous combustion of the biosphere.
>JimC
>