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Re: Armadillos at the K/T

Ray,
Actually I think a lot of interesting points are being made in this thread, and don't see any need to end it. Although I think the case is extremely strong that the bolide was by far the major culprit, I wouldn't want to do anything to prevent others from freely discussing alternative scenarios (even though I may disagree with them). I have some rather far-out ideas myself, and having been on the receiving end of tolerance and patience on this list, I am more than willing to extend that to others with unpopular ideas, no matter how much I might disagree with them. Vive la difference.
-----Cheers, Ken
P.S. I really enjoyed Michael de Sosa's comments on the bolide "being framed". I agree "Book him Dano"--- but I think anyone should be able to continue to pursue other suspects as well. And Cretaceous egg-eaters almost certainly had an ecological effect at some level (although many believe it would have been made almost totally irrevelant once the bolide hit).
And now that I think about it, some mammals may have made it through the immediate aftermath of K-T by eating unguarded eggs. So even though they may not have caused the dinosaur extinction, some of the surviving mammals may have benefitted from the final clutches of dino eggs (and fire may have hard-boiled them in some places which would have delayed spoilage).
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From: "Ray Stanford" <dinotracker@earthlink.net>
Reply-To: "Ray Stanford" <dinotracker@earthlink.net>
To: <rowe@psych.ucsb.edu>
Subject: Armadillos at the K/T
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 08:52:01 -0400

Hello Mickey,

    IMO, it is well past time to stop John Bois' thread "Armadillos at the
K/T".

John Bois repeatedly has created threads that are totally unrealistic
attempts to explain the K/T extinction in any pipe-dream terms other that
the effects and after-effects of the cosmic impact. These seem to me to be
nothing more than an attempt to draw attention to himself and what he
clearly deems to be his 'brilliant, deductive mind'. After all, the present
'hypothesis' John offers seems not only absurd, but it is absolutely
untestable (or cannot be falsified), it seems to me. Thus it is
pseudoscience.

Ken Kinman has been overly patient with John and made the good point, "I
think speculation is great, and obviously do a lot of it myself. But the
cause of the K-T mass extinction has become so clear, I don't see any need
to speculate about little piddly threats (like egg eaters) when you have a
huge smoking gun which left it craterous calling-card off the coast of
Yucatan. If the bolide hypothesis isn't broke, why try to fix it?"

    Thanks, Mickey, and if you're going to SVP, have a great time.

    Ray Stanford

"You know my method. It is founded upon the observance of trifles." --
Sherlock Holmes in The Boscombe Valley Mystery



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