Re: Suspicious impact craters and iridium layers?

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

  I get the odd feeling that David trolls the DML for typos ;) One can get
_too_ anal.

David Marjanovic (david.marjanovic@gmx.at) wrote:

<That's a "he". :-°>

  I've seen enough breasts on Shiva statues to state otherwise, but this is a
non-issue (the gender of the icon for which the Crater was named is not really
relevant to the topic).

<(In case anyone doesn't know the impressive snake... that was a typo for 
*Wonambi*.)>

  True, and I had thought I'd written *i*, but no matter. I have a good excuse
(3.5 hours of sleep prior and written at 4:30am my time, right before heading
to work). However, selecting a spelling is as different, for names of the
Rainbow Serpent, as selecting a tribe. Many languages of aboriginals are VERY
similar and indicate similar legends on the Serpent with similar names; some
use only weather effects, some use only geography, and others use real snakes,
as icons for the Serpent. Some time back researching my commentary and
discussion of the *Kakuru* story, I ran across a book including the symbolism
of the Serpent and this was accompanied by the many names per tribe forr what
is grouped as the "same" serpent (as "same" as "dragons" between Europe and
Japan can be considered "the same"). It is likely this was a mis-stroke on the
keyboard.

<Well, it's a different case. It's a chronological term and not directly named
after Jesus Christ.>

  Pele lava is named for the lava and the lava fields and is as dated as the
Kristendemslava, so I could likely argue for an analogy.
 
<While I am at it, the baculum (one C) has nothing recognizable to do with 
Bacchus, and neither does the straight ammonite *Baculites* (again one C).>

  Well, I did put a little bit of brains into this one, including searching the
name up. There are uses of the double-C, as the baculum (one-C) is derived from
the name Bacchus. My source for this, however, is rather convoluted. Bacchus,
from Bakkhos, seemingly derives from the Latin _bacca_, a berry, used for wine
(hence with an allusion to drunkeness and sex); in Greek, this is _bakkha_.
With Greek, we also have _bak-_, a "staff", which gives us _baculum_ (Latin
tending to loose extraneous consonants, this is easily derived from a Latin
form of _bak_, _bacus_). At which point, by circuitous route, a scholar might
perceive *Baculites*, Bacchus, and baculum to have the same essential origin
and have connotations of wine, sex, and long, hard staff like objects. I should
quit here.

<Don't the paleontologists in the book Jurassic Park measure time in beer 
cases? :-> >

  An anecdote drawn from Jack Horner, no less. Crichton used Jack as an inside
look into the life of an established North American dig. I'm afraid I'd be
drinking lots and lots of water rather than beer, which is the norm abroad as
well.

  Cheers,

Jaime A. Headden

  Little steps are often the hardest to take.  We are too used to making leaps 
in the face of adversity, that a simple skip is so hard to do.  We should all 
learn to walk soft, walk small, see the world around us rather than zoom by it.

"Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969)

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the 
experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to 
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