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Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 22:01:40 +0100 (CET)
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Subject: (urth) The big O

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Everything is big on Green. Low gravity? Maybe so. However there is another aspect that I don’t believe has been raised here. Oxygen. I was reading New Scientist Dec 14 2002.

“You are standing in a primeval forest during the Carboniferous period, 300 million years ago. Dragonflies with wings almost a metre across weave in and out of trees that tower 50 metres above you. On
During this period oxygen levels were about 35% (21% today). The rest of the article is the usual academic squabbling, but the link between Oh-two levels and gigantism (and flight) seems quite possiblnastler
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Everything is big on Green. Low gravity? Maybe so. However there is another aspect that I don’t believe has been raised here. Oxyge

“You are standing in a primeval forest during the Carboniferous period, 300 million years ago. Dragonflies with wings almost a metr

During this period oxygen levels were about 35% (21% today). The rest of the article is the usual academic squabbling, but the link--0-853935204-1041195700=:15096--

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