tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post7008007590421903237..comments2024-03-27T18:20:38.176-05:00Comments on TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): Amazing facts about the CarboniferousMinnesotastanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01382888179579245181noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-67857586745880469102013-07-11T06:43:00.495-05:002013-07-11T06:43:00.495-05:00I've updated the post using your new chop as t...I've updated the post using your new chop as the embed. Thanks, Faraday - I hope this one lasts for a while.Minnesotastanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382888179579245181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-59381206767646689392013-07-11T00:47:10.275-05:002013-07-11T00:47:10.275-05:00Updated location chopped:
http://www.tubechop.com...Updated location chopped:<br /><br />http://www.tubechop.com/watch/1314118Faradaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-74178272490703981802012-11-17T13:21:40.936-06:002012-11-17T13:21:40.936-06:00You're skeptical because you don't underst...You're skeptical because you don't understand, yet you seem to speak like you not only understand, but know for a fact what plant life was back then.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-71779420679996465502012-08-10T11:20:29.633-05:002012-08-10T11:20:29.633-05:00Thanks, Dan.Thanks, Dan.Minnesotastanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382888179579245181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-2370137558171942032012-08-10T10:25:34.774-05:002012-08-10T10:25:34.774-05:00Used tubechop to grab the relevant portion.
http:/...Used tubechop to grab the relevant portion.<br />http://www.tubechop.com/watch/472633nolanddahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12708768497461983779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-7431980060161863232012-08-03T10:49:08.589-05:002012-08-03T10:49:08.589-05:00Wow. I love this blog for finding gaps in my knowl...Wow. I love this blog for finding gaps in my knowledge. Always interesting!Aprilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13545902890959118689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-7679934300098479972012-08-02T15:18:39.702-05:002012-08-02T15:18:39.702-05:00Do you have a source for your claim that the weste...Do you have a source for your claim that the western US coal was not deposited as charcoal?<br /><br />I'm also not seeing where the post claims that "nearly all coal that we exploit today" came from the Carboniferous alone. The claim was that it comes from "the Carboniferous and the other periods with elevated oxygen levels".jsb16https://www.blogger.com/profile/15026570673498674977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-77025253570137492662012-07-30T19:40:17.886-05:002012-07-30T19:40:17.886-05:00This comment is dead on "And think of the fir...This comment is dead on "And think of the fire hazard. Nobody in Colorado or California needs to be reminded of the risk of accumulated deadwood." I totally agree.Larry Harringtonhttp://www.msistone.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-24153741012786890482012-07-30T17:49:52.287-05:002012-07-30T17:49:52.287-05:00Breaking down lignin is one of the key challenges ...Breaking down lignin is one of the key challenges for the biofuel industry; it took nature 50 million years to find a way through lignin...James MacAonghushttp://www.aqute.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-88530497723742005002012-07-30T08:44:56.706-05:002012-07-30T08:44:56.706-05:00Hrmm...I'm still a skeptic. For A) I'd say...Hrmm...I'm still a skeptic. For A) I'd say that there would still have to be some soil or mulch on top of or in the crotch of a tree for a tree to take root, but maybe the leaves decompose but not the wood?<br /><br />B) They have to at least get water from the soil. Where do they get nitrogen from? Maybe trees do not need nitrogen like other plants?<br /><br />C) I wasn't thinking of a charcoal mix, I was thinking of gigantic slabs of coal that would be like solid rock. Maybe I have the picture wrong in my mind.<br /><br />Finally, I guess I am just having trouble picturing a "swamp" that has several thousand feet of tree lumber stacked in it. I need an illustration!Brad Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00197301845256854051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-43620583310878137812012-07-29T11:38:29.464-05:002012-07-29T11:38:29.464-05:00A) Tree seeds don't need to get to the soil to...A) Tree seeds don't need to get to the soil to germinate. They can grow on top of, or from the crotches of, other trees.<br /><br />B) Tree don't suck their sustenance from the soil - they grow "from the top down" - taking CO2 out of the air to make their cellulose.<br /><br />C) Charcoal is an excellent nutrient and growing medium. Look up "terra preta" to see how primitive people added charcoal to dirt to farm the Amazonian region.<br /><br />And, you're forgetting (or ignoring) the cleansing effects of the forest fires. That forest floor you've seen after one tornado - think of how that area would look after a firestorm. You could ride a bicycle through it.<br /><br />But I think these trees were mostly like cycads, and grew in swamps.Minnesotastanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382888179579245181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-34503924215322928662012-07-29T09:51:28.388-05:002012-07-29T09:51:28.388-05:00Really sorry to be the party-pooper, but this seem...Really sorry to be the party-pooper, but this seems to be absolute nonsense. 50 million years of no decaying wood? I've seen what the forest floor looks like after one tornado, it this were to only happen once every 250 years for 50 million years, it would seem impossible for anything to get to the soil to even germinate. And if woody material isn't decaying for mulch, how are the soil nutrients being replaced anyway? And if global fires are creating massive coal mines on the surface, how does anything grow in that?Brad Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00197301845256854051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-81958111255218917402012-07-28T15:31:30.580-05:002012-07-28T15:31:30.580-05:00Fascinating. Now can someone please tell me where ...Fascinating. Now can someone please tell me where oil comes from? I have read that it comes from dead animals and plants, I believe, but that boggles my mind. Why is so much of it in the desert, which probably wasn't desert at some point? <br /><br />That would be an interesting follow-up to this, Stan.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-49214839321237807902012-07-28T15:06:00.780-05:002012-07-28T15:06:00.780-05:00Immanuel Velikovsky?
Worlds in Collision?
Try it w...Immanuel Velikovsky?<br />Worlds in Collision?<br />Try it with a basketball.Peter Hendrynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-87735871078181129672012-07-28T08:00:10.706-05:002012-07-28T08:00:10.706-05:00I won't pretend to understand much of this but...I won't pretend to understand much of this but this is why I follow this blog. It stretches my brain. <br /><br />PS: Haven't stopped reading, just haven't commented in a while.expatQLDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16000119830847919774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-78194253971839119082012-07-27T21:10:25.193-05:002012-07-27T21:10:25.193-05:00Imagine also that the trees were predominantly gam...Imagine also that the trees were predominantly gametophytic (a dominant gametophyte (n) generation - the sporophyte generation (2n) was microscopic). Today, trees are sporophyte dominant (the gametophytic generation is microscopic), and of indeterminant growth. Then, huge club moss-like trees that grew to a genetically predetermined height, spread their spores, then died. The wood could not grow new phloem, therefore could not increase in girth, and had a pith through the height of the tree.<br />Also imagine with the oxygen-rich atmosphere, the giant insects that thrived, and dominated. They could probably do shots of DEET all day.Daddyodekehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01416212215069825266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-35647103588993076102012-07-27T19:41:47.664-05:002012-07-27T19:41:47.664-05:00Magnificent!
What, indeed, could these forest qu...Magnificent! <br /><br />What, indeed, could these forest quagmires have looked like? Piles of logs hundreds of feet thick, with trees growing out of trees out of trees, with bizarre species scuttling about in a dark maze underworld - only to be all turned to charcoal in some amazing inferno...<br /><br />All the forgotten spectacles this earth has hosted! Super discovery.N. Normalnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-60833365752909823252012-07-27T14:57:06.338-05:002012-07-27T14:57:06.338-05:00My mind is blown. This certainly is fuel to the im...My mind is blown. This certainly is fuel to the imagination...Fletcherhttp://oregonexpat.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-21790229952191726002012-07-27T14:47:24.200-05:002012-07-27T14:47:24.200-05:00This whole post is amazing. Thank you!This whole post is amazing. Thank you!Cathttp://catrocketship.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-64754809108597477792012-07-27T12:09:12.289-05:002012-07-27T12:09:12.289-05:00In the western U.S., coal comes from Cretaceous sw...In the western U.S., coal comes from Cretaceous swamp and peat deposits. And these deposits predate the K-T event. They're not charcoal. And future coal seams are being created today in peat deposits that are resistant to fungal and bacterial decay for chemical and climatological reasons. The Carboniferous was very different, but it does not contain "nearly all coal that we exploit today".BJ Nichollshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04525256614467299544noreply@blogger.com