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Is that the Lure of Science I Hear, or Thunder?

I don't know why more people don't study science.  I know why I didn't.  I wasn't smart enough.  I came to that realization while getting a minor in chemistry.  At the time I studied chemistry, people were still inventing the periodic table, and kids played with mercury at the kitchen table.  


Now, though, there are really interesting scientific developments to lure students to the sciences, not least of which is the claim that farting dinosaurs may have warmed the whole earth 150 million years ago.  If that possibility cannot draw kids into the sciences, nothing will!


Cows and sheep, today, do their best to melt the ice, but compared to sauropods they are mere windbags.  The amount of methane produced by those Mesozoic, long-necked, overgrown cows might have been more than all of our natural and artificial flatulence, put together.  


And methane is a far, far better gas for warming the climate than carbon dioxide.  Already, we here in the Midwest know that the carbon emissions we are producing today are responsible for really remarkable amounts of rainfall in our region.  Can you imagine what it might have been like 150 million years ago, with dinosaurs farting everywhere?  "No, Maude, that isn't thunder!"


Don't get excited, now.  I know that there were not human beings during the Mesozoic era.  There actually were some, but they were in the Ark, with Noah, far out at sea, drifting off to a mountain in Turkey, where every few years, someone finds pieces of the True Ark, and hauls it off to Kentucky (or wherever it is) to reconstruct a boat that is almost big enough to hold two sauropods and about eight fundamentalists.  


The Bible doesn't say anything about it, but Ol' Noah and the kids must have given a lot of thought to the ventilation system on that boat.  


I will bet that Noah had planned a much longer trip than he actually took.  Why else would he have stopped in Turkey, halfway up Mount Ararat, which is nowhere near Kentucky?   


You can see, I wasn't very good at history, either.  


I have built a couple of boats.  In fact, the crew at Sowles called me Noah, behind my back, while I was building the last one.  I think it had more to do with Sauropods than with the boat.  You know how it is when you get old.  









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