Re: Ultimate predator / Holocene

["Dictator-for-life Calvin" <MWEDEL@gslan.offsys.ou.edu>]

>Seriously, tho, daddy always taught me MAN (excuse me, ladies, dad's from the
>old school of expressions... he's not leaving you out!) is the ultimate
>predator.

>REFS:  WWI (mustard gas), WWII ('H'-Bomb), Vietnam (agent orange) just to
>cite a few recent predatory success-stories (note we even kill the flora
>surrounding the fauna we're after)...

If you want to pick nits, the H-is-for-hydrogen fusion bomb wasn't 
invented until the early 50's.  The WWII bombs were good old 
A-for-atomic fission bombs.

Actually, this brings a question to mind.  If the U.S. and the old 
U.S.S.R. and Britain and France and China and everyone else had let 
loose all at once in the much-feared MAD nuclear holocaust, would the 
soot and fallout have left a geological trace?  Would paleontologists 
of the future note a uranium or plutonium anomaly at the topmost 
layer of Cenozoic deposits?  I always wondered.