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Old 01-May-2008, 01:53 PM
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Originally Posted by GOURDHEAD View Post
Note that if this curve can be believed, the Earth is unusually cool at the current time.
It is. The ice ages are blips on the geologic time scale, and there have been three major ones since approximately 750Mya. And we are not out of the last one.
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(By the way, I hate it that so many papers in the areas of planetary science and geology are not easily avaiable to the dreaded "non-subscribers". It is like they are screaming at me: "YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH". Good, I feel better now.)

I know you are a person who takes his physics seriously, but isn't it said that most great discoveries aren't discovered with "Eureka!" but with, "Hmmm, that's funny." Big Don

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