Michel Jullian wrote: The only mention in the report of planetary engineering solutions is brief, and clearly unenthusiastic:
Hi All, I think tonight members of the Bush and Windsor families are having a white tie dinner at the White House to celebrate the victory of the Oil Gang in Iraq: The fundemental Iraqi oil law has been amended to allow American and European oil companies to buy up the Iraqi oil fields (at least this bench mark has been achieved); and the price of oil has been kept up despite the world oil glut. The only disappointment is that the Russian grip on Kazahk oil has not been broken; but not to worry. With the mission accomplished in Iraq, the Oil Gang can set up a permanent American base among the Kurds, who fear the Arabs, Iranians, and especially the Turks, from which PR commando raids against Al Quaida can be launched. The bulk of the American forces can be redeployed to Afghanistan to seriously clear and protect the Afghan pipeline to tap the Kazakh oil. --------------- [Subject: Re: [Vo]:The Ecliptic and Mass Extinctions] Horace Heffner wrote onSun, 6 May 2007 ... Further, the hypothesis doesn't give a reason the major extinctions start about 600 My ago. Robin van Spaandonk wrote: I didn't think there was much life around to extinguish prior to 600 MY ago. (Or if there was, then probably mostly bacterial, and we wouldn't notice an extinction event anyway.) Hi again, Google `"snowball earth" BBC' to see a solid case made that that the entire Earth had been frozen over for millions of years prior to 600 My ago. An interesting question is "Were there multicellular forms of life here that were ground into oblivion during the years that Earth was a ball of ice?" Jack Smith
