Please Unsubcribe... [meteorite-list] avoirdupois ? etc., etc.,etc.

From: Tom aka James Knudson <knudson911_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:22:36 2004
Message-ID: <00b601c32fe7$d0339c60$64c543d8_at_malcolm>

Hello Jerry and list! This is common knowledge, You can read all about this
in the first half of a great book. That would be the Old Testament of the
Holy Bible! You might want to pick up a copy if you don't already own one!
It is a best seller!
Thanks, Tom
The proudest member of the IMCA 6168
----- Original Message -----
From: Jerry A. Wallace <jwal2000_at_swbell.net>
To: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 11:39 PM
Subject: Re: Please Unsubcribe... [meteorite-list] avoirdupois ? etc.,
etc.,etc.


> Folks,
>
> Since we seem to have morphed off into anthropology, genealogy, sulking,
> skulking, and Rosie
> resigning from the list again, and heaven only knows what else to
> follow, here's an item of
> 'breaking news' that is both relevant and timely to our new 'off-topic'
> subject. It's interesting, too.
>
> The following is the blurb from the newsstory:
>
> "New research suggests the human race was nearly wiped out 70,000 years
> ago, when a crisis reduced
> the population to about 2,000 people. The theory has reinvigorated the
> debate on whether humans really
> did come 'Out of Africa', or whether the species evolved in little
> pockets around the globe."
>
> /Adapted from a report for ABC radio's 'PM' program./
>
> http://www.abc.net.au/news/indepth/featureitems/s876996.htm
>
> In order to get back 'on topic', I'm now wondering whether or not the
> homo sapiens' close brush with
> extinction might have had anything to do with meteorites, asteroids,
> meteoroids, comets, meteors, death
> stars, and/or alien attacks. That should cover relevancy!
>
> 'Crawled out of the Odessa crater' Jerry (and may soon crawl back in)
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Sharkkb8_at_aol.com wrote:
>
> >
> >> The most recent data I have seen shows in theory that ALL living
> >> modern humans can trace their existence back to no more than 5
> >> individual females and no more that 30 individual males.
> >
> >
> >
> > Speculation from the really exotic all the way down to perfectly
> > plausible scientific projections are a lot of fun to bat back and
> > forth, but for all practical purposes, it seems to me that the
> > primitive, boring procedure of tracing actual familial lines and
> > figuring out who is demonstrably related to whom is hardly obsolete.
> > Sure, we can all come from the same DNA source and we can all be
> > related to each other if we try hard enough, through clever wordplay
> > or speculative, slightly massaged (perhaps) science, just as
> > meteorites COULD very well take forms other than those we currently
> > recognize. Maybe there are meteorites that look just like ping-pong
> > paddles and are made of brie cheese. But if we're just talking about
> > practical, day-to-day genealogy rather than expansive theoretical
> > canvasses, surely it's still more useful to base it in empirical
> > evidence....rather like using meteoritical science to identify
> > meteorites, rather than posing lots of cool-sounding but unanswerable
> > possibilities. ;-)
> >
> > Gregory
>
>
>
>
>
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Received on Wed 11 Jun 2003 03:05:13 AM PDT