Charlie Bell wrote:
Yes, and if some disaster were to befall every dog breed except
Great Danes and Chihuahuas, that would be a speciation event. :-)
Your point is valid, and shows how tricky defining species can be -
there are whole groups of beetles of which the member species can
On 28/12/2007, at 9:08 PM, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
OTOH, Pitbulls should be called a different species; they are
dogs in the same way that killer whales are whales :-/
That they've been bred for viciousness says more about the people
doing the breeding than the dogs themselves. As for
Charlie Bell wrote:
OTOH, Pitbulls should be called a different species; they are
dogs in the same way that killer whales are whales :-/
That they've been bred for viciousness says more about the people
doing the breeding than the dogs themselves.
Yes - but they corrupt the good name of
On 28/12/2007, at 11:00 PM, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
I used orcas just because of their (wrong) name, killer whales,
since they are more dolphins than whales.
I didn't mean, what's wrong with the name killer whale. I meant,
what's wrong with killer whales? Why do orcas give whales (or
Charlie Bell wrote:
I used orcas just because of their (wrong) name, killer whales,
since they are more dolphins than whales.
I didn't mean, what's wrong with the name killer whale.
It's wrong, because they are not whales. Ok, a seahorse is
not a horse, a sea anemona is not a flower, but
On 29/12/2007, at 12:04 AM, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Charlie Bell wrote:
I used orcas just because of their (wrong) name, killer whales,
since they are more dolphins than whales.
I didn't mean, what's wrong with the name killer whale.
It's wrong, because they are not whales.
Yes they
Charlie Bell wrote:
It's wrong, because they are not whales.
Yes they are. They're toothed whales. Baleen whales (humpbacks,
blues, rights, minkes etc) and toothed whales (including killer
whales, pilot whales, belugas, narwhals, and dolphins) are a clade,
they're monophyletic. They
I have a friend who ordered a toy kitchen online and when she got it, too
soon before Christmas to get it replaced if there was a problem, it turned
out it had been a return and one piece was broken. So, no play kitchen
for her girls for Christmas, which sucks.
But not as bad as this:
On Fri, 28 Dec 2007, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Charlie Bell wrote:
It's wrong, because they are not whales.
Yes they are. They're toothed whales. Baleen whales (humpbacks,
blues, rights, minkes etc) and toothed whales (including killer
whales, pilot whales, belugas, narwhals, and
On Dec 28, 2007 3:31 AM, Charlie Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That they've been bred for viciousness says more about the people
doing the breeding than the dogs themselves. As for orcas, what's
wrong with orcas? They're carnivores, they're top predators, they're
smart. But they're no better
Trent... cool looking game...
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These are the features that I'm thinking of as part of a fairly Luddite
cannon.
--Only STL travel is possible. No FTL, no worm holes.
--No reactionless drives.
--No antigravity.
--The main means of travel is by beam riding ships weighing a few grams and
made of computronium.
Yes. They threw me off the Orion's Arm discussion list for being a worm hole
skeptic.
On Thursday 2007-12-27 20:57, Max Battcher wrote:
Did you look at Orion's Arm? It has a couple of the things you mention:
http://www.orionsarm.com/
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Charlie, thanks for the essay and the links; good stuff.
Doug
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On 29/12/2007, at 3:02 AM, Nick Arnett wrote:
I relaxed a great deal about pits after reading an article citing
statistics
that made it clear that *owners* are far more responsible for their
dogs'
behavior than I had imagined before becoming a dog owner
Nick, if you can remember where
On 29/12/2007, at 9:25 AM, Trent Shipley wrote:
Yes. They threw me off the Orion's Arm discussion list for being a
worm hole
skeptic.
Skeptic or Denialist? *poke* ;-)
Charlie.
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On 29/12/2007, at 9:46 AM, Doug wrote:
Charlie, thanks for the essay and the links; good stuff.
*takes a bow* My pleasure. It should be obvious it's one of my
favourite topics (well, I did sit through 4 years of it at
university...), and I'm always happy to talk zoology or evolutionary
Nick Arnett said,
I have a hard time believing that pits are inherently vicious.
They aren't when you are a friend of the little old lady that owns
one. (I knew the `little old lady' when she was young, but then, I
was young at the same time ...)
... *owners* are far more responsible
Nick wrote
I relaxed a great deal about pits after reading an article citing
statistics
that made it clear that *owners* are far more responsible for their
dogs'
behavior than I had imagined before becoming a dog owner
Nick, if you can remember where you read that, there's someone
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