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Were Mammoths Wiped Out By A Supenova?
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(Rand Simberg) wrote:
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs...oth_print.html Hey, get in line! Another theory says really hungry post ice-age hunters wiped out the mammoths: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0803173345.htm Okay, so why weren't bison/buffalo "impacted" by either the alleged hunters or the alleged supernova? Not big or tasty enough? I think we need more theories.... |
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Jim Logajan wrote: (Rand Simberg) wrote: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs...oth_print.html Hey, get in line! Another theory says really hungry post ice-age hunters wiped out the mammoths: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0803173345.htm Okay, so why weren't bison/buffalo "impacted" by either the alleged hunters or the alleged supernova? Not big or tasty enough? I think we need more theories.... The usual explanation given why the bison were not impacted by the hunters was that the time to maturity of bison is just a few years, while that for the mammoths was probably similar to modern elephants, on the order of 15 years. Bison are cross-fertile with domestic cattle; with a reproduction rate of about 1/5 as much, it was not hard to wipe them out. -- This address is for information only. I do not claim that these views are those of the Statistics Department or of Purdue University. Herman Rubin, Department of Statistics, Purdue University Phone: (765)494-6054 FAX: (765)494-0558 |
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Joe Strout wrote: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs...oth_print.html I'd like to know where the supernova remnant is -- if only 250 LY away, we ought to be able to get a pretty good look at it, I'd think. - Joe I can't positively say that the theory is wrong, but that sounds like one of the most cracked concepts I've heard in a long time. :-D Pat |
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