Re: poling dangers

[david peters <davidrpeters@earthlink.net>]

Could be all wrong.
>
>Dave, one of the things that I like about you (even when I disagree), is 
>that you're always willing to think outside the box, and you're always 
>willing to let everyone watch you do it.  That takes guts, and is admirable.


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Some of these questions may never be answered or answerable. 

The answer, of course, always depends on the parameters of the question.

Like, from George Carlin: Can you imagine a God so all powerful that he can 
create a rock so large that he himself cannot lift it?

IMHO, if it's not safe for Q to spend a few hours probing for food in one pond, 
Q will find another place to do it. So the predator question may be moot. 
Smaller pterosaurs have left poling marks. What are your thoughts on them 
taking off from hands-deep waters? And can these hypotheses be scaled up?

David Peters
St. Louis