Re: (Fwd) Gravity

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From: cnedin@geology.adelaide.edu.au (Chris Nedin)
Subject: Re: (Fwd) Gravity
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>Here's a theory for you.  I have for a long time been
>wondering about how the dinosours all died off.  I've had a
>hard time believing the comet theory's.  I have wondered
>about a sudden change in the earths gravitational pull.
>The gravity increased suddenly, the dinosaurs just couldn't
>support their own weight and collapsed.

This is similar to an idea put out by a staunch Velikovskyite, which
basically states that the Earth used to orbit Saturn and was close enought
that gravity was attenuated. A good rebuttal to this can be found in the
Talk.origins archives at:

http://rumba.ics.uci.edu.8080/origins/faqs-catastrophism.html

The file is called:

Sauropods, Elephants, Weightlifters, Ted Holden and Megafauna.

Chris

cnedin@geology.adelaide.edu.au                  nedin@ediacara.org
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Many say it was a mistake to come down from the trees, some say
the move out of the oceans was a bad idea. Me, I say the stiffening
of the notochord in the Cambrian was where it all went wrong,
it was all downhill from there.