Discovered: The turtle the size of a SmartCar..

UK Daily Mail ^ | May 18, 2012 | Eddie Wrenn

[C19fan]

Picture a turtle the size of a Smart car, with a shell large enough to double as a children's pool. Paleontologists from North Carolina State University have found just such a specimen – the fossilised remains of a 60-million-year-old South American giant that lived in what is now Colombia. The turtle in question is Carbonemys cofrinii, which means 'coal turtle', and it is part of a group of turtles known as pelomedusoides. The specimen's skull measures 24 centimeters, and the shell, which was recovered nearby and is believed to belong to the same animal - measures 172 centimeters, or about 5 feet 7 inches, long.

[Sudetenland]

I didn't mention the GC, because--as its name implies--it is a CONSTANT, not a variable. Therefore, as I previously and accurately stated, "Gravity is solely a function of mass."

There is absolutely no evidence of even the possibility that there has been any change to the gravitational constant, past, present, or future. To speculate such is an empty, meaningless venture into the world of imagination, not science.

Hey, maybe the speed of light will change and become attainable--an equally valid and imaginary speculation.

[bgill]

If it was a snapping turtle it could eat a smart car.

Hmm, guess it wouldn't make a good house pet.

[Boogieman]

“To speculate such is an empty, meaningless venture into the world of imagination, not science.”

Ha! That’s a good one. If someone speculated on such “meaningingless ventures”, and was able to come up with a demonstrable theory based on those speculations, we’d hail him after the fact as a visionary. Of course, until that success is achieved, we only get the poo-pooing of the forces of orthodoxy.

[Staten-John]

Not quite. Gravity is a function of mass and distance. Surface gravity on the Earth has varied over hundreds of millions of years. The reason has nothing to do with accretion of mass on the Earth’s surface but the movement of the Earth’s core elements (inner/outer cores and the densest part of the lower mantle.

A PDF summary of ‘The Gravity Theory of Mass Extinction’ can be found at www.dinoextinct.com

[SunkenCiv]

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[Lazamataz]

LOL!!! There could not have been any change in gravity on Earth for billions of years, far-far-far ahead of any life appearing. Gravity is solely a function of mass and the mass of the planet hasn't changed markedly since its initial formation.

We don't know that for sure.

Suppose the gravitational constant has changed? And the only reason gravity worked is because of trillions of tiny machine guns who's little tiny bullets impacted things on a molecular scale, allowing gravity to SEEM constant, but then Eric Holder banned the machine guns and we needed regular gravity.

[Battle Axe]

I saw one in Missouri cross the road in front of me. I stopped, it was the size of the engine in my car. It was headed to a pond on a friends property. Later she told me one of her swans was just floating in the water with it’s head down. They got out the boat and pulled it up........no head.

YIKES!!

[Battle Axe]

There was more oxygen back then. There were more trees and more photosynthesis, thus more oxygen. All the CO 2 was used up and sequestered in the plants.....then the comets came....and smacko.....

[MetaThought]

My personal theory is that it was the higher atmospheric CO2 levels that allows larger animals and the larger vegetation to support the animals.