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Changes in Earth's Orbit Linked to Extinctions
Josh Fink writes "A group of Dutch Scientists have recently released a study stating that they have found that changes in Earth's orbit around the sun are linked to mammal extinctions. From the article: '"Extinctions in rodent species occur in pulses which are spaced by intervals controlled by astronomical variations and their effects on climate change..." The cycles are associated with lower temperatures, changes in precipitation, habitats, vegetation and food availability which are the main factors influencing the extinction peaks, the study published in the journal Nature said.' So on top of worrying about global warming, it seems we should also worry about the physics that govern the orbit of Earth around the sun. Too bad we don't have a way of keeping the Earth in the same orbit/on the same axis of rotation."
How do animal extinctions change the Earth's orbit?
As for moving the Earth's orbit, they did that in Gorath.
They cover Antarctica with giant, city-sized rocket engines. Yep. SOLID science fiction, baby.
First, we had the pending doom of the New Ice Age (Global Cooling) in the 1970's (remember that? Of course not). When that failed to produce tons of money for the enviro-weenies' "research" and funding and votes for the libs' political campaigns, they invented the Global Warming hysteria which actually gained them tons of money...now this? What the F could possibly be next? I can hear it now:
"Katie, this just in...we are hearing reports that large quantities of space alien shit have finally made their way into our solar system from some far-off galaxy and it is heading straight for Earth! Run for your lives! Oh, the humanity!! Oh...wait...new report coming in...we CAN stop this shittroid afterall - make your check or money order payable to...".
Please, for the love all things, don't give the mis-guided, naive, dopey, liberal teenagers and other similar idiots a reason to adhere another whiney dumbass bumper sticker to their car. Bumper-to-bumper traffic sucks enough already.
Is there anyone else who fail's to see the logic in such things as global warming and mass extinctions affecting the orbit of the Earth? I mean come on guys come up with something that actually has the ability to be proven and/or not able to be biased souley to the opinion of the Ph.D.'s in that feild. Come up with something that can be physically proven, repeated several times with same results, and don't setup the test so that it's so tipped in your favor that nobody else but you can be proven right. Now I know I'll get modded for being off-topic but this example is from personal experience and shows exactly whats going on here. One of my co-workers at Wal-Mart is studying enviromental science and we got into a heated debate over global warming. She told me that after 1 hour of operation a car produces more CO2 than there is in 1 cubic KM of air at 35,000 feet. As soon as I began to attack the method of testing that proved her data true, she immediatley began the "I'm right, you're wrong!" course of thinking and wouldn't hear of anything that might actually prove global warming wrong. She said that if that test method isn't used (geusstimation and very closely rounded numbers made to fit there uses), then we are all doomed to live through another Ice Age in the very near future.
Yes I agree that things like these need to be taken seriously, to a certain degree though. If its out of our control why worry about it and make others lifes suck, just to justify our own point of view?
Just my $.02!
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