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> A giant Europan jellyfish might be the prototype, then. Something large
> enough to be able to absorb energy across a broad area (say, 1 km across).
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> Freezing or ice s
December 10, 2000 9:13 AM
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> Then why didn't Imperial Mammoth grow 100' tall, especially when in cold
> climates such as an Ice Age, it would be a benefit? I suppose that steppe
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<< (Bear in mind, too, that some of the brontotheres of the mid Cainozoic were
pretty weight competitive with at least the smaller sauropods. No doubt the
brontotheres were something less than wildly active; but this shows that
sauropodian mammals - while probably less likely than their dinosa
In a message dated 12/8/2000 5:28:26 PM Alaskan Standard Time,
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<< >This has a strange relevance to Europa, however. If life exists in the
>Europan ocean, it's likely to be living in a low energy environment where
>competition is unlikely to be widespread. Unlike most
Bruce Moomaw wrote:
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> It should be pointed out, however, that multicellular organisms never
> evolved on Earth at all until the evolution of photosynthesis provided them
> with a much more efficient energy supply -- so it still seems overwhelmingly
> likely that all Europan life will be single
Bruce Moomaw wrote:
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> What in the world is a weta?
Answered elsewhere; but a really big NZ bug. Can't kill you, though... the weta
lives in NZ not Australia
(Private joke)
> More generally, in today's lower-oxygen environment, big bugs must be much
> more sluggish, which puts them at
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Date: Friday, December 08, 2000 6:11 PM
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>This has a strange relevance to Eur
Jayme Blaschke wrote:
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> >>>What in the world is a weta?
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> Director Peter Jackson's Wellington-based SFX company. :-)
>
> Jayme Lynn Blaschke
No great surprise... Jacko's a Kiwi (New Zealander); with a taste for
cinema almost as ugly as the weta itself.
The weta is a very large arthropod
>>>What in the world is a weta?
Director Peter Jackson's Wellington-based SFX company. :-)
Jayme Lynn Blaschke
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>the reverse of this syndrome; & showed what happen when large
>critters got trapped on small islands.
Wrangell Island with its dwarf mammoths is another good example of this.
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In a message dated 12/8/2000 4:06:42 AM Alaskan Standard Time,
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<< Come on over to Jason Perry's "Jupiter List" and "ISSDG" discussion groups
and you can see Clements and I tearing at each other and questioning each
other's ancestry on a regular basis. It's wonderful
Thank you very much!
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Date: Friday, December 08, 2000 5:27 AM
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>Bruce,
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>> Come on over to Jason Perry's "Jupiter List"
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>Bruce Moomaw wrote:
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>I gotta say, Robert, reading your posts brought grim glee to my day. We
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I gotta say, Robert, reading your posts brought grim glee to my day. We
missed you, our giant gadfly!
-- JHB
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Bruce Moomaw wrote:
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> While I didn't know that the huge dragonflies held on into the early
> Mesozoic, Clements' explanation has a big problem: why didn't the equally
> huge crawling bugs of the Carboniferous Era hold on? They didn't have the
> clumsy-flight disadvantage of those huge dragonf
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> f) here's a somewhat unrelated question: what did Dinosaurs breath?
> Could the air have been thicker then, perhaps with somewhat exotic chemistry
> to it? How else to explain 2' dragonflies, and 80' brachiosaurs... 'heavier'
> air might explain how a 2' drag
In a message dated 12/5/2000 4:38:40 AM Alaskan Standard Time,
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<< The consensus now is that the Carboniferous and Pennsylvanian eras of the
Paleozoic did indeed feature much higher atmospheric oxygen levels, and that
this allowed insects to overcome the burden of the
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>I have some questions regarding the oxygen boom referred to in the last
posting...
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I have some questions regarding the oxygen boom referred to in the last
posting...
1) presuming that glaciation was involved, could the following help explain
it?
a) glaciation would seem to be a downward spiral; that is, a lot of ice
chills the ocean currents, it chills the air, it dr
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