WVCaver2011 wrote:... you should be more considerate in your next post.
Allen, I'd like to publicly give some advice.
You have got an incredible track record for making unbelievable, uneducated, and frankly
laughable conjectures based on misunderstood or insignificant evidence. In a very short amount of time, you've completely discredited yourself, embarrassed your fellow cavers and students of science by setting such a poor example, and seem to be crossing a very dangerous line of being condescending or insulting to others based on what
you believe to be some amount of experience or knowledge.
Every caver knows what a talus slope is, especially someone with an NSS number
seventeen-thousand lower than yours. If you knocked a rock onto something that you believe to be "prehistoric fossils", you were
not caving softly. Taking an undergraduate course on dinosaurs doesn't qualify you to identify mammal fossils, nor can you tell that it is nocturnal by its eye sockets.
Please, STOP making these ludicrous statements. If you want to learn, ask questions and
listen. Go out and cave, study karst geology for a few
years before you make hypotheses about cave systems, regional geology, or the mass genocide of bats. Go join a grotto and cave with real cavers, who might teach you a few things that will help (like how not to kill yourself on rope). But do yourself a favor and stop making a fool of yourself.