A New Spin

A New Spin

Appendix: Documented evidence from independent sources

The observations and findings bellow are provided by independent sources. This information seems to support various aspects proposed in A New Spin. If you are aware of any other factual material that can serve for a compelling evidence, please advise at: telejt~~[delete_me]~~@shaw.ca

From: http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/enviro/EnviroRepublish_1239175.htm

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"...The fossilized tree rings in the Glossopteris trees revealed they grew steadily each summer and abruptly stopped for winter, as if a switch had been thrown.
'They probably reacted to light (rather than temperature) to switch off,' said Cantrill..." [Emphasis added, J.T.]

(David Cantrill, curator at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm, http://www.nrm.se/welcome.html.en)

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From: http://www.polar.org/antsun/oldissues2002-2003/Sun111002/dinosaurs.html

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"...Paleobiologists Tom and Edith Taylor found forests of fossilized tree stumps... Despite the dark winters, the trees had growth rings 10 times the size found on trees growing now in Alaska. The Taylors were surprised to also find cycads, a tree with a spongy trunk that now grows in tropical areas..." [Emphasis added, J.T.]

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From: http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF7/788.html

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"...Within Alaska, there have been recently confirmed fossil finds of hadrosaurs, or duckbilled dinosaurs, north of Kotzebue ... the primary question still arises: even if the global climate was far warmer then, how could these animals and the plants on which they depended for survival have lived in an environment where it's dark half of the year? Continental drift, putting the lands in which the fossils lay closer to the sunny equator, doesn't seem to work--at least not for the High Arctic islands. Of all the land masses on earth, they seem to have been among those that have shifted the least. Could it have been a tilting of the rotational axis of the earth, bringing more sunlight to what is now the Arctic? There is no known mechanism to account for that..." [Emphasis added, J.T.]

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From: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/dinos/Pterosaur.shtml

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"Genus Pteranodon - 23 feet (7 m) wide wingspan [during the late Cretaceous period] ...It glided along rather than flapping its wings..."

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From: http://tornado.sfsu.edu/Geosciences/classes/lwhite/fly.htm

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"...Birds have feathery wings that are attached to the forearm and hand and Pterosaurs have membrane wings that are attached to 1 long finger."

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From: http://www.geol.umd.edu/~tholtz/G104/10433phys.htm

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"... some [dinosaurs] had means of rapidly oxygenating their blood to be "turbo-charged" and thus function temporarily as highly active animals. "

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From: Paleobiologists Tom and Edith Taylor

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"...190 million years ago Dinosaurs live in Antarctica... "

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From: SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, August 2006, page 30.

"...North Pole's mean annual temperature: -20 degrees C. Temperature 55 million years ago: 23 degrees C."

(On the eve of the "big-event" just about. J.T.)

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From: SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, January 2008, "Hot Spots Unplugged", page 89.

"...the direction of the [tectonic] plate motion suddenly changed some 47 million years ago ... motion of the solid earth relative to the planet's spin axis ..."

[Could the direction of the "old" motion match the change in direction of the "old" spin axis which happened at the same time just about? J.T.]

i. 'What is this?'

ii. --The short answer:

iii. --The long answer:

iv. For the impatient:

v. 'What is next then?'

1. The bigger they are ...

2. Is there a limit to growth?

3. Not convinced yet? What does rate have to do with it?

4. Why aren't any such big animals alive today?

5. What, then, made it possible for them to take their place in the earth's history?

6. But aren't weight and size one and the same?

7. Are we talking change in gravity, then?