Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site psivax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!psivax!friesen From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Re: catastrophic evolution - reply to Bill Jefferys Message-ID: <640@psivax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 12:01:32 EDT Article-I.D.: psivax.640 Posted: Mon Aug 12 12:01:32 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 03:33:23 EDT References: <365@imsvax.UUCP> <565@mit-vax.UUCP> Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) Organization: Pacesetter Systems Inc., Sylmar, CA Lines: 27 Summary: In article <565@mit-vax.UUCP> csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) writes: > >>[Ted Holden] >>You haven't heard of the ultrasaur, >>you say? The people at Penn State apparently have >>acquired him rather recently. > >No, the CREATIONISTS at Penn State acquired him. Of course, they will >immediately send it up to their doubting colleagues at Harvard and it >will be lost in the mail. > Actually for once Mr Holden is more or less correct, "ultrasaurus" is the informal name of a recently discovered Sauropod(or as Mr Holden calls them "brontosaur") which is larger than any previously known. Of course this does not invalidate the calculations that Sauropods *could* support themselves on land. I am curious though, how did Mr Holden find out about such a recent find and still miss all the calculations about the *actual* support capacity of Sauropod legs? BTW Mr Forsythe, some of your comments on Velikovsky's (mis)treatment of ancient myths and religious writings were quite good. -- Sarima (Stanley Friesen) {trwrb|allegra|cbosgd|hplabs|ihnp4|aero!uscvax!akgua}!sdcrdcf!psivax!friesen or {ttdica|quad1|bellcore|scgvaxd}!psivax!friesen