Re: [Phys-l] A geek's observations on "Avatar"

["LaMontagne, Bob" <RLAMONT@providence.edu>]

Great book - neat insights. I hope it's accurate.

Bob at PC

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From: phys-l-bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu [phys-l-bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu] On Behalf Of Bernard Cleyet [bernardcleyet@redshift.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 12:19 PM
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Subject: Re: [Phys-l] A geek's observations on "Avatar"

That is the point of 1491 -- the only way to have "saved" the Amerindians would a been to delay 1492 five centuries, until vaccination w/ cow pox available, etc. **




**Jenner, 1796 --  other methods in prehistory.  (China and India)


bc IERC, it worked (slightly) in reverse, e.g. syphilis

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/world/americas/15iht-columbus.1.9219670.html


He did!

p.s. An Amazonian people were almost wiped out, tho were vaccinated, recently.


appropriate article?

http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146%2Fannurev.an.22.100193.001421

loads of articles, can't find the one I remember -- in the New Yorker?


http://www.wou.edu/las/socsci/kimjensen/crosby.html


creating dinosaurs, à la the movie -- no prob.  modern diseases will wipe them out.


On 2010, Jan 06, , at 00:11, John Clement wrote:

> Actually, it was inevitable that we would wipe them out when contact was
> established.  We did try to spread smallpox by giving them "infected"
> blankets, but it turns out that such blankets do not really spread the
> disease.  We can feel guilty for the things we did, but the large effect was
> accidental.  Heinlein proposed the same idea when Earthlings mingled with
> Martians.

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