[SunkenCiv]

Evolution in Your Face
by Patrick Huyghe
Omni

Lake Victoria, Africa's largest lake, is home to more than 300 species of cichlids. These fish, which are popular in aquariums, are deep-bodied and have one nostril, rather than the usual two, on each side of the head. Seismic profiles and cores of the lake taken by a team headed by Thomas C. Johnson of the University of Minnesota, reveal that the lake dried up completely about 12,400 years ago. This means that the rate of speciation of cichlid fishes has been extremely rapid: something on average of one new species every 40 years!

[patton]

I told you it had to do with water.

[battousai]

Lake Victoria, Africa's largest lake, is home to more than 300 species of cichlids.

Lake Malawi cichlids at the Toronto Zoo, if anyone is wondering what they look like (not my video though I have taken similar footage):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wue-iDmqmf8

[muawiyah]

Good list. Much reading.

Now, back to Gilgamesh and Inkydoo ~

Inkydoo is the companion that came to play with Gilgamesh (the Moon). He ended up engaging in a lot of mischief but eventually ended up coming under the sway of Venus ~ rather than Earth ~ where he remains to this very day.

Inkydoo was an 'airy man ~ jus' like a comet ought to be. So, if we assume that the passes of Earth and Inkydoo occurred many times over several thousand years you get numerous opportunities for close call hunks of rock breaking loose from him and hitting Earth.

The reason they weren't destroying the planet was their relatively low velocity. That would also explain why their impact craters are so incredibly shallow without much surrounding ejecta.

I would imagine some astronomer is already working backwards on the Venusian moon's orbits to see when it came closest to Earth.