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- From: rh@smds.com (Richard Harter)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Yet Another Saturn Myth Variant
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.024930.22748@smds.com>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 02:49:30 GMT
- References: <222@fedfil.UUCP> <C13oKn.Az3@world.std.com> <1993Jan20.101924.27484@abo.fi> <1993Jan21.062150.19564@trl.oz.au>
- Reply-To: rh@ishmael.UUCP (Richard Harter)
- Organization: Software Maintenance & Development Systems, Inc.
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- In article <1993Jan21.062150.19564@trl.oz.au> jbm@hal.trl.OZ.AU (Jacques Guy) writes:
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- >I still think my very own homebrewed theory explains it all much better:
- >in those days the earth revolved in two hours, so that near the equator
- >you weight half as much as at the poles, courtesy of "la force centrifuge"
- >(sounds much more convincing when put in a foreign language).
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- >This theory has the advantage of being falsifiable: we ought to find
- >fossils of very much larger creatures near the equator only.
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- No sooner said than done. Malawisaurus, from Malawi, was an atypically
- small Sauropod. See Jacob's new book on African DInosaurs.
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