Re: The Inner Planets as Gas Giant Ejecta? and Bogus Barney?
EvMick@aol.com
Wed, 17 Feb 1999 00:40:38 EST
In a message dated 2/16/99 10:41:43 PM Central Standard Time,
newstrom@newstaffinc.com writes:
>
> Do you believe this claim? Why do you keep posting it to the List?
> Where do dinosaur fossils come from, if not from dinosaurs? If nobody
> challenged your postings, where would you go with them, and what kind of
> conclusion are you trying to lead us toward?
Actually I do beleive that dinosaurs are pretty much as they are portrayed to
be. Big walking appetites that lived millions of years ago.
I still can't quiet understand the size differential between those early
dino's...the early (giant) mammals...and today's critters. Why should
giantism have been the norm (?) then as compared to now? There must have been
a LOT of giants given the small amount of critters that manage to get
fossilized...else we would have little or no record.
Is it true that strength increases as the square and weight as the cube? I
beleive that is why Howard Hughe's flying boat....The Spruce Goose...was at
the tippy tip of the envelope for large aircraft of it's day, until the
materials used in AirCraft production had improved allowing such large
aircraft as the C5 and the 747. Wasn't this strength of weight ratio one of
the reasons that Zepplins lost their dominance?
That seems odd then that earlier critters had better materials than present
critters. Of course that's unlikely. So what IS the reason? The site I
refrenced suggested questions concerning a gravitationl difference then and
now. Of course that's crazy.
I'm puzzled...and like a dog with a bone...I keep chewing.
EvMick