(urth) do the Hierogrammates *care* about the megatherians?

[Jeff Wilson]

On 5/17/2011 12:15 PM, Lee Berman wrote:

> Despite the words of the Caloyer of Saltus (as Lane mentions) it *is* puzzling
> as to why a Flood would eliminate ocean-bound monstrosities.

No more so than a volcanic explosion or a hurricane eliminating 
land-bound monstrosities. Water has 200 times the density of air, so you 
need much less of a sustained change in the speed of orderly currents to 
produce a destroying column of water than of air. And imagine how 
mammoths and plains dinosaurs would fare if they found themselves and 
their food web swept to the high mountain peaks and back, or even just 
flung up into the Himalayas.

"The Flood" is what we land creatures call it, from the pelagic 
perspective it's "The Surge" or "The Tsunami".

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
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