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Re: Hell Creek (long)



 
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Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 5:16 PM
 
Ok....... Call me Ozzy......
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You know that one song of his on his "Down to Earth Album" entitled "Dreamer"???..
I don't...
When asked to give references on things that I purposely glazed over in the name of saving time and space .....
I see.
things that by all accounts have either been mentioned on the DML numerous times and/or are found in the literature for which the person asking for the references has undoubtedly read......
I'll look for them. But I think their refutations have also been mentioned numerous times onlist and in said literature.
And when my literary license falls under attack i.e.: "shockwaves"..... And when my generalizations are frowned upon i.e.: "3 mm"......
That I criticized your calling something gradual "shockwaves" can easily be considered useless semantics. That you wrote the ejecta layer of 3 mm in total extends globally is simply wrong, though.
By the way..... That "No 'Darkness at Noon' To Do in the Dinosaurs?" article was in Science.... Not Nature.... But wow... I'm sure you already knew that. :-o
I didn't. Thanks for the information.
What I see is that there is indeed evidence for an extintion/impact correlation..... But I do not see a relationship of extinction/impact causation......
I think the null hypothesis should be that something as catastrophic as a huge impact should cause real trouble, not that nothing happens and life ignores the effects of a multi-teraton explosion. I think the burden of proof is on those that advocate the latter. (And, of course, on all those who try to specify what "real trouble" exactly is.)
[...] that something I casually remarked about without ever thinking "Darwin" is a totally out of place misquote of Darwin and that they hate it....
That I hate something is of course not a scientific argument. I apologize. What I tried to say is just that "survival of the fittest" is not the whole story and not well applicable to mass extinctions, and there are scientific arguments (which I won't use to bore everyone by repeating them now) for this.