Comments on: Pro John Doe

By: ninme

ninme — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:23:36 +0000

We need to step back and thank the creator they don’t have opposable thumbs. It’s given us time. Precious time.

By: Brett_McS

Brett_McS — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 03:28:16 +0000

You think they've been experimenting with genetically modified water buffalo in S.A. and they escaped the lab? Perhaps one of them picked the lock with the tip of his horn, while another held it steady in his teeth, with a third giving instructions - a little to the left, no too much, better,...?

It's "Watchers", but for real. Eeeeek!

By: Rueful Red

Rueful Red — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 16:54:38 +0000

Golly!! One can’t help thinking they’d have wasted so much less had they had proper refrigeration.

This site’s an education.

By: ninme

ninme — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 16:08:16 +0000

American Indians used to drive whole herds of buffalo (good luck doing that now) off cliffs so they could eat just a few. And unlike your social studies teacher in grade school waxing on about how they used to use every bit of the animal, meat for eating, hide for living under and wearing, etc etc, they really did waste a lot. I think they had more pressing concerns, like survival and warfare, than sitting around devising ways to use that last little bit of hoof left over.

Here's a good example of this (and one of the better-named sites in North America). Bone deposits are 10 meters deep. That slope there didn't used to be there.

By: Rueful Red

Rueful Red — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 10:01:04 +0000

Pity they were eaten to extinction by the Maori, as were the other extinct New Zealand birds - rails, adzebill, wrens, eagle - mentioned on that site. Reckon some indigenous peoples were more in touch with nature than others, at a guess.

By: Brett_McS

Brett_McS — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 09:49:05 +0000

Probably Moa bird feathers. Up to 3 metres tall! That's a big bird!

By: Rueful Red

Rueful Red — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 08:59:24 +0000

In that case, what did the Maori have to keep themselves warm? You can get through a lot of forest by just turning trees into charcoal, as we demonstrated in Elizabethan times.

By: Brett_McS

Brett_McS — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:10:38 +0000

Antarctic - missed the damn c.

By: Brett_McS

Brett_McS — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:05:57 +0000

Horizontal size is girth?

Yes, the little ice age (and the earlier medieval warming period) were indeed world wide, with the exception of the Antartic, which tends to be opposite phase to the rest of the planet. It's climatically isolated by the great southern ocean, and cloudiness (which cools the other parts of the planet) in the case of the Antartic (which is very white) creates warmer conditions. (Of course it's still bloody cold).

This is from the recent book The Chilling Stars - one of the upstarts causing Global Warming to take early retirement.

By: HalfEmpty

HalfEmpty — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 18:56:45 +0000

whereas New Zealand, tho very long, doesn't have quite the range to take from.

According to the bestseller that I can't remember the name of Guns, Blood and Bagels? Horizontal size is more important for successful food vectors.