On Mon, 1 Apr 2002 19:03:28 -0500, Philip Thrift <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Discovery Channel, Mon Apr 1 8pm EST (7pm CST), repeated at 11 EST (10 CST) Wasn't quite what I expected -- it was more about the models of the earth's oscillations and climate cycles and how one model shows that the next ice age will come within 200 years. Enjoy the late summer while it lasts. One punny comment from a Univ. of Colorado professor about how the disappearance of the megafauna from North America at the end of the last ice age coinciding with the arrival of humans being mere coincidence -- since the megafauna had lived through previous ice cycles -- was "too much to swallow" :-) Philip Thrift http://www.geocities.com/paleofitness