RE: paleonet Kepkupaiui

[Bill Chaisson/Deirdre Cunningham <chaisson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>  I have just only answer to questions outlined from my initial point 
>such as 9/11.

I think that the list members (particularly American members) thought 
it was  deliberately obtuse to ignore the fact that "9/11" has become 
code for "Terrorists attacked the United States and killed 3,000 
people on that day."  Bringing up Catalonia nationalism came across 
as insensitive.

This non-paleontologic tangent detracted from the bonafide 
paleontological content of the original inquest.  I was fascinated to 
find out that Kepkupaiui turned out to be a mistranslation from the 
Greek alphabet for a spawning ground for loggerhead turtles.  Given 
that uniformitarianism doesn't really work unless we understand the 
details of the ecology of modern organisms, it seems silly to 
consider this a 'non-paleontological topic'.

<soap box removed>
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William P. Chaisson
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY  14627