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  1. Just how fanatical were the Imperial Japanese/how aggressive were the Allies?

    The southern portion of Korea (South Korea) has and has had more people than the northern portion because it has more flat land and a better climate for agriculture. Some population information is given here: http://www.populstat.info/Asia/koreaco.htm The individual countries' statistics...

  2. Wheeled creatures on Earth?

    I'm not sure how living in termites and/or not photosynthesizing goes against my statements. I agree that there are organisms with a flagellum that rotates, but this structure is similar to holding a piece of rope in your hand and rotating your arm. It is a rotary strutuce, but not a wheel...

  3. Wheeled creatures on Earth?

    Microbes are not animals. I know some single-celled organisms have a flagellum that rotates, but that is not a wheel even though it is a rotary structure. I would like to know if any actually have wheels. The problems with wheeled animals (multicellular organisms) are 1) how does the wheel...

  4. President James E. Carter, 1977-1985.

    Carter's big problem wasn't his foreign policy, but his lack of a positive vision for America. His solution to the energy crisis was to lower the temperature in the White House and encourage us to wear sweaters. America would have to accept that we were decending into the second tier of...

  5. Alternate geologic time tables

    For those who would like to see the latest in geologic timescales, check out: http://www.stratigraphy.org/ - The International Commission on Stratigraphy - The internationally accepted timescale. http://infotrek.er.usgs.gov/pubs/ - look up Fact Sheet 2007-3015 for the US Geological...

  6. Alternate geologic time tables

    It's not just the Paleozoic/Mesozoic and Mesozoic/Cenozoic boundaries that were identified by mass extinctions, but several of the period boundaries. So these boundaries will be the same whatever the names. Other boundaries are marked by smaller extinctions or other global phenomena (the...

  7. No K-T extinction event: No Dinosaur Killer WI

    Yes and no. While there is no single rate of evolution in a lineage, there are lineages that generally evolve more quickly. These lineages are often used for biostratigraphy. North American Land Mammal ages are frequently used in North America (hence the name) because mammals evolve quickly...

  8. Siberian Spring

    For this not to be ASB you need to give something more than a climatic anomaly. Siberia's climate is due to its location, being north and east. No ocean currents to transfer heat and air currents are cooled before they get there. Similar situation to northeastern Canada, without Hudson's Bay...

  9. Which TV show most represents America

    Any football game. Short periods of violence, followed by the lawyers (referrees) figuring out what really happened, with plenty of time for commercials. I heard this years ago.

  10. Minerva, the 4th rock from the sun

    Butterflies are an assumption, not a proven fact. I see nothing wrong with starting with an assumption of a larger planet in Mars' position (POD circa 4.5+/- billion years ago) and postulating how it would affect humans. The only problem would be if Jupiter had a strong influence on the final...

  11. CHALLENGE: Surviving Megafauna in Americas

    Paul Martin has written extensively (and persuasively in my opinion) that humans did in the megafauna. Diamond basically summarizes Martin's arguments. Martin suggests in his latest book that we should set up preserves in NA with related or ecologically similar animals to restore the...

  12. A new weapon?

    What prevents teh steam from going around the arrow? If you place a disk at the back of the arrow, then the aerodynamics are shot. Also, depending on the invention date, I doubt they could have gotten the tolerances small enough to build up enough pressure to provide sufficient force to the arrow.

  13. Empire of Japan and Korea

    On the Korean side, you also have anti-Japanese sentiments for centuries.

  14. Neanderthals survive to present day

    Ice Age is a malleable term. I have seen it used to describe cooler periods of time (the Pleistocene, Carboniferous, and various points in the precambrian), the Pleistocene, and just the last glacial period. So we can be in an interglacial period and still in an ice age.

  15. Yellowstone Super Volcano

    There's no evidence for a mass extinction event 600,000 years ago, so if a modern eruption was like the last one, it's effects will be primarily local. The maps posted early on show the extent of ash fall, not the extent of heavy fall. As shown by Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Pinatubo, etc, some ash...

  16. WI: N. Korea collapses in the 90s

    There won't be two Koreas if Koreans have anything to say about it. A united Korea is the greatest desire of most Koreans. The ROK has a cabinet level position for reunification. Even though both sides have been "brainwashed", much of that brainwashing has to do with reuniting the country...

  17. Jefferson's other dream comes true

    Why would butterflies do in the bison? Bison (a larger species), mastodons, and mammoths survived together before humans arrived in the Americas.

  18. Drinking in public goes the same way as smoking in public

    When I visited a friend in Texas during the early 1990s, this is what we had to do when we went out one night. He paid the membership fee (=cover) and I went in as a guest (with a guest charge = cover). I couldn't be a member because I was living in Indiana at the time. We each received a...

  19. WI Himalayas much taller?

    It's been a (long) while, but I remember being told in one or more undergraduate geology classes that the Himalayas are about as tall as mountains can get on Earth, given the strength of rocks, the thickness of the continental crust before melting, etc. If my memory is even close to correct...

  20. GAH: No Mediterranean Sea

    A lot depends on how the Mediterranean Sea disappeared. If the Straits of Gibralter are higher, then you end up with highly saline lakes in the deepest portions of the basin. Ken Hsu wrote a popular book a while ago about the evidence and Turtledove has a story based on this. Another...
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