Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site shell.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!ut-sally!utmbvax!shell!heller From: heller@shell.UUCP (Don Heller) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Re: Catastrophic Evolution/ more on large animals and extinction Message-ID: <129@shell.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 10:36:08 EDT Article-I.D.: shell.129 Posted: Mon Aug 12 10:36:08 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 14-Aug-85 01:43:41 EDT References: <367@imsvax.UUCP> Organization: CS Dept., Shell Development Co., Houston Lines: 30 Mr. Holden overreacts. > I love it! Someone from outer space who heard this would > naturally assume Mr. Heller had killed LOTS of mastodons and no > longer regarded it as a challenge. I would be *delighted* for someone from outer space to make this assumption. It's wrong of course, but how often do we get to argue with such creatures? > In real > life, of course, a thirty lb. boulder falling on a Mammoth or > Imperial elephants head MIGHT have gotten his attention. Twenty > people throwing rocks at him would undoubtedly have gotten him > pissed off. Getting the [mastodon|elephant|...] pissed off is the whole point. Then you can get it to do something stupid, like killing itself in the fall off a cliff. There was some other hoopla about primitive tribes living in harmony with nature and not being dumb enough to wipe out a whole species. Mr. Holden underestimates the abilities of our ancestors. -- Don Heller Computer Science Dept. Shell Development Company P.O. Box 481 Houston, Texas 77001 713-663-2341 {ihnp4, pur-ee, ut-sally}!shell!heller