<<It seems to me that all John did was say,
"Glenn is wrong". That may or may not be true, but it doesn't clarify
anything. I raised specific objections that John is avoiding.>>
No, he's not. He answered the objection specifically:
<< Because the deformational heating is proportional to the stress times
the strain rate and the stresses are so strongly reduced, the heating is
not nearly so extreme.>>
Jim
Circumstantial Evidence
and
The Darwin Conspiracy
(got the above idea from Glenn)