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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

O.K., Ray, seriously now <g> ah, just how much methane do you figure a grass 
eating dinosaur produced?  A hairy mamoth?

I mean, the Argentinosaurus weighed around 100,000 pounds.  Sauroposeidon at 
50-60 tons.  Shantungosaurus at 15 tons.  Brachiosaurus at 50 tons.

So, let's compare.  Cattle produce between 26 and 132 gallons of methane a 
day.  So figuring a 2,000+ pound bull will be the 132 gallons that gives us 
a production of 6600 gallons a day for ol' Argentinosaurus and 
Brachiosaurus, 7920 for Sauroposeidon and 1980 for the "little" 
Shantungosaurus.  Ah, yup, I think they did their part <g>  Good thing that 
meteor or ice age or whatever did them in!

Then you had all those bogs that disappeared.  Now those little suckers were 
methane machines!

Lynda
--"I'm fascinated by the hard line you're drawing over religion -- It gets
used too much, as an excuse, a fall guy, a weapon, a con.  A lot of people,
maybe most, don't mean it except when it suits them."  Dallas
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <rayzentz AT aim.com>
> Yep, millions cooking on fires, spewing methane?
>
> Oh, perhaps they all had very bad gas?   ;-)
>
> But what about before that? And before that?
>
> And I have no doubt that our time here is relatively short, and the earth 
> may well be better off without us...
>
> Ray