Re: Preview of new stegosaur plate paper

[don ohmes <d_ohmes@yahoo.com>]

You are right. I wrote "must". I withdraw the
assertion that I did not write "must". (Actually, that
"did not say must" was a reference to the "might" in
the following: "Intuitively, it seems to me that the
relative size of display structures might scale
negatively with body size..." Slipped by the editor, I
guess.) 

I stand by the original statement in the original
context. Add "Generally speaking,..." and I will stand
by it, period. 

"Generally speaking, engineering and mass allocation
considerations indicate that the relative size of
passive defense structures must scale negatively with
body size."

Got any assertions you care to withdraw?

--- Mike Taylor <mike@miketaylor.org.uk> wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 09:08:48 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: don ohmes <d_ohmes@yahoo.com>
> >
> >>>>> Engineering and mass allocation considerations
> indicate that the
> >>>>> relative size of passive defense structures
> must scale
> >>>>> negatively with body size.
> >
> > [snip snip snip]
> > 
> > I said PASSIVE defense structures. Antlers are
> aggressive
> > structures, not defensive, and are ACTIVE, not
> passive. AND I DID
> > NOT SAY "MUST'.
> 
> (I know I shouldn't get sucked into this, but ...)
> 
> How do you interpret your original statement that
> "Engineering and
> mass allocation considerations indicate that the
> relative size of
> passive defense structures MUST [my emphasis] scale
> negatively with
> body size" compatible with your NOT HAVING SAID
> "MUST"?
> 
>  _/|_ 
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