Taxacom: Marie Tharp

Thu Sep 28 19:44:18 CDT 2023

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On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 7:39 PM David Campbell via Taxacom <
taxacom at lists.ku.edu> wrote:

> Tharp is the featured topic of an Amoeba People song, with video available
> at https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DNuugQSaHM7Y&data=05%7C01%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7Ccdb00fadb9ed4cae37ab08dbc0854d32%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638315451947302129%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=EZNUSexbBp%2FsIo5kxUjTDK%2BrlDhGazzzoh%2FG%2F%2BVEipQ%3D&reserved=0
> To give greater taxonomic relevance, they also have a song about
> coprolites, which can be named as ichnofossils under the zoological code.
> At least one spiral coprolite has been identified as a gastropod and as a
> plant part, so it's shown up in both zoological and botanical codes.
>
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 2:14 PM Tony Rees via Taxacom <
> taxacom at lists.ku.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > Not completely un-noticed (now at least):
> > https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FMarie_Tharp&data=05%7C01%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7Ccdb00fadb9ed4cae37ab08dbc0854d32%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638315451947302129%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=QHBOvUlBoiptmLZXHnLdJFUnuB%2B2RY4wf3VMB4HhAK8%3D&reserved=0
> >
> > Regards - Tony
> >
> > Tony Rees, New South Wales, Australia
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> >
> > On Fri, 29 Sept 2023 at 00:41, John Grehan via Taxacom <
> > taxacom at lists.ku.edu>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > If you've never heard of Marie Tharp, then you are not alone. Never
> heard
> > > of her myself before now. In the 'official' histories of plate
> tectonics
> > > the discovery of the mid ocean ridges goes to Heezen, and Ewing, the
> head
> > > of the Lamont lab, who in 1956 published on the discovery of a ridge
> > > covering about 40,000 miles of the ocean's floor. Only it was never
> their
> > > discovery, but that of Tharp, who was, of course, not credited for this
> > > (and does this not remind you of the double helix scam?). Tharp was
> given
> > > the tedious and detailed task of mapping the ocean seafloor from echo
> > > soundings (I guess the men were too important to get their hands on a
> > > pencil). "After weeks of looking at the data and plotting the lines,
> > Tharp
> > > had noticed a pattern. She had about half a dozen lines running across
> > the
> > > ocean, and many had a v-shaped dip in a similar spot, right on top of
> an
> > > underwater mountain chain, the Mid-Atlantic Rift. It looked like a
> rift.
> > > But it couldn't be, Heezen told her, because that would be too much
> > > like continental
> > > drift
> > > <
> > >
> >
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> > > >.
> > > He and "almost everyone else at Lamont, and in the United States,
> thought
> > > continental drift was impossible," according to Tharp. It would take
> > Heezen
> > > months to accept what he'd dismissed as Tharp's "girl talk."
> > >
> > > So once again, the  history of science here is so much bs (and
> > ironically b
> > > = bull in both noun and adjective). Science is supposed to be about the
> > > discovery of knowledge, but all too often it is also about power and
> > > suppression. As noted by Derrida, for all knowledge gained, something
> > > escapes and is lost. Only in such cases as this the loss is deliberate.
> > At
> > > least history can sometimes be revisited. The worry is what continues
> to
> > go
> > > on in the present.
> > >
> > > Cheers, John
> > >
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