You know, I was busy thinking the other day, and I just have to say: If I were to be forced – and I have no easy ideas on how this could happen, but let’s just run with it for the moment – if I were forced to choose another Period in time, I can tell you for sure that I would avoid the Carboniferous.
I would avoid this even over the one with the stampeding mastodons or the one where you’re chased by flying lizards.
Yep. I'll be steering clear of The Carboniferous Period.
Frankly, I don’t think I could take the weather. Humidly wilting, covered in elephant-sized ferns and two-thirds more oxygen present in the air than we have now: There’s gonna be trouble. Ay yi yi but you’re gonna get a rash.
And the millipedes? Up to lengths of ten feet long? My chest would explode.
I found a millipede in the house once. Three o’clock in the morning, I open the medicine chest and a three-inch dinosaur rears up on the last four of his milli legs and salutes.
I ‘bout had an accident.
Arthropods: I ask you.
So “no”. If pressed, this is where I stand, and I won't be changing my mind. If I were to be, for some unforeseeable reason, thrown out of the Neogene, I would not like to land in the Carboniferous Period.
No way.
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Indeed... to land in the Carboniferous Period would not be good as the Arthropods were much, much larger than they are today... PLUS the Carboniferon people never discovered the joy of Tena lady pads.
Sx
Heat, humidity, over oxygenated...no...I don't think I would like that either.
Have you seen the Holocene? I would pick the epoch with wooly mammoths. I would ride them. I would have wooly mammoth rodeos. Wooly mammoths as draft animals, puLLing the Budweiser wagon and the Wells Fargo stagecoach. I would domesticate them, and then they would be man's best friend. Imagine aLL the eugenic eXperiments that would be done on the domesticated WM, like the whole wolf to dog thing. Yes, imagine a wooly mammoth the size of a chihuahua.
And you know what they say about The Butterfly Effect...you might screw things up royally. You better stay put!
You are too funny!
Pearl, who does hot yoga, is afraid of a little humidity?
Frankly, I'm surprised...
Sioux has a point. As for the millipede, I'm a lot more tolerant since I watched the Men In Black documentaries.
We had millipedes in Hawaii. I'm trying to imagine one the size of Cleveland....
Me neither.
Question: Can I order your 2nd book but have it sent to a different address?
Well-supported opinion. Matter of taste really. I prefer the Carboniferous at barbecues but my wife thinks it's just over-grilling.
I got here late today, but I was thinking as Geo does, that Carboniferous has to do with men, meat and fire outdoors.
I love it when you've been "busy thinking" :)
But, wait a minute, didn't the Neogene Period end a few years ago?
;)
wow talk about not knowing what time it is? I can't keep one epoch straight from the other. Oh to be a lizard and change my name to Larry. I would so much fun hanging out at the lounges.
You are always busy thinking. I am with you on the heat and humidity issues, and am not fond of multi-leggers myself. I can't quite cope with the ripply way they move.
Ice age for me every time.
If I had my druthers, I don't think I would choose to live in an era where the most advanced society elected Dubya as its leader.
There's millipedes and centipedes and one of them can kill you.
I was staying in a French farmhouse when one or the other scooted down the door lintelat the bottom of my bed. Unable to count the legs I lay quaking in fear all night.
For periods I've always fancied poncing round all bosoms and bustle.
Renoir's period.
Hey Pearl! Carboniferous? Good call. Cephalopods became dominant during the Ordovician period, and so I think it might be smart to give that one a miss too. Tricky buggers. Roth x
Heat, humidity, and humongous millipedes are detriments, but not deal-breakers. The real deal-breaker? No chocolate!
I had never even heard of the Carboniferous period. You are so worldly and knowledgeable...or maybe I should look to see if this is part of your "imaginary" world.
Nahh, I will believe you.
I don't think we could time transport anything bigger than a subatomic particle.
Truly enjoyed this.
Forget about gigantic millipedes and such, the humidity would do me in. I wouldn't last a week.
But if you can think of a way to drop back and just visit other eras, then come home again, count me in!
I'm pretty sure I agree.
The extra oxygen allowed carboniferous arthropods to reach huge sizes, but the real reason they died out was because of the humidity. They were mortally embarrassed by their frizzy hair.
I'm with you... in this epoch. I'm sure I wouldn't pick it either if I weren't already in it, but that's life.
Sounds like Florida.
I'm pretty much a live-and-let-live sort of guy when it comes to bugs. I relocate 'em, rather than stomp 'em. But millipedes (and centipedes, for that matter) just freak me the f*** out. I run away like a little girl when I see them.
I agree. And what's more, I just somehow wouldn't like to end up as coal. I don't really know why.
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