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Car-Sized Creature Whacked with Tail's Sweet Spot (until 10,000 years ago)
Natural History Magazine ^
| Nov 15, 2009
| Harvey Leifert
Posted on 11/15/2009 12:39:09 PM PST by decimon
When Alex Rodriguez swings for the fences or Venus Williams tries to ace her serve, they do well to connect at the "sweet spot" of their bat or racket. That aim was apparently shared by some unlikely contenders: glyptodonts, armored mammals with clublike tails that roamed the Americas until about 10,000 years ago.
The sweet spot, or center of percussion, is the point on a tool where powerful blows should be landed to maximize impact and minimize the risk of injury to the user.
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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: armadillo; catastrophism; glyptodonts; godsgravesglyphs; megafauna; tedholden; wendy1946
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To: Pelham
I just knew Abner Doubleday didnt really invent baseball.Thagner Doublewhomp.
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11/15/2009 5:26:15 PM PST
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decimon
To: wendy1946
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11/15/2009 6:21:46 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
To: SunkenCiv
Excellent - I’ve got a friend who has a couple of slime molds named after him (of course, he did the naming), but the only thing named after me are a couple of cocktails.
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11/15/2009 6:31:48 PM PST
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stormer
To: Peanut Gallery
To those of us that believe the Earth is more than 6,000 years old, it serve as evidence of armadillo evolution.
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11/15/2009 6:33:48 PM PST
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stormer
To: stormer
If I don’t clean the house pretty soon, I’ll have a bunch of different molds named after me...
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11/15/2009 6:37:22 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv; Little Pig
He gets the Thagomizer and a louse named after him?
I’m jealous.
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11/15/2009 6:48:19 PM PST
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null and void
(We are now in day 298 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
To: stormer
I am not about to argue the age of the earth, here or anywhere else. However, I was under the impression that armadillos were around *back then* even as they are now (kinda the way alligators and crocodiles were/are).
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11/15/2009 7:18:17 PM PST
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Peanut Gallery
(The essence of freedom is the proper limitation of government.)
To: Peanut Gallery
It looks like a large armadillo.That would be because it is a large armadillo relative.
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11/15/2009 7:27:39 PM PST
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Lucius Cornelius Sulla
(a wild-eyed, exclusionist, birther religio-beast -- Daily Kos)
To: SunkenCiv
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11/15/2009 7:49:25 PM PST
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stormer
To: Peanut Gallery
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11/15/2009 7:53:19 PM PST
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stormer
To: SunkenCiv
But it could be worse...
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11/15/2009 7:55:59 PM PST
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stormer
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