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From: "Julia Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Killer Bs Discussion"
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 10:35 PM
Subject: Rita Aggie joke
> Here's how an Aggie prepares for a hurricane:
>
> http://people.tamu.edu/~andymac67/loupots3.JPG
>
Actually, I saw that in sev
Here's how an Aggie prepares for a hurricane:
http://people.tamu.edu/~andymac67/loupots3.JPG
Julia
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On Sep 26, 2005, at 6:06 PM, PAT MATHEWS wrote:
Try the mythology of the early Middle Eastern cultures. Humans were
created as slaves to the gods.
Oo, nice.
Of course there's the Hindu approach as well. It seems to me that any
ID-iotic curriculum would have to give equal ground to pretty muc
From: Warren Ockrassa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Sep 26, 2005, at 4:46 PM, Gary Nunn wrote:
Another thought just occurred to me... Wouldn't it be ironic if we WERE
the
result of intelligent design... Maybe, thousands of years ago, we were
genetically engineered, by some alien race, to be slaves, c
Dave Land wrote:
Are you saying that countries like Japan do not have health or education
budgets? I think the biggest contributor to our /not/ having the budget
for projects like this would be military spending.
Hell no - just that they have lots of money (esp true when they started
this). T
On Sep 26, 2005, at 3:53 PM, Russell Chapman wrote:
Dave Land wrote:
From at least one of the shots, it seems that the supports for the
ceiling of the "pitch pressure tank" are about 3-4 feet thick by
20-30
feet wide, spaced about 30-40 feet apart. There may or may not be a
civil engineer o
On Sep 26, 2005, at 4:46 PM, Gary Nunn wrote:
Another thought just occurred to me... Wouldn't it be ironic if we
WERE the
result of intelligent design... Maybe, thousands of years ago, we were
genetically engineered, by some alien race, to be slaves, cheap labor
or
pets. They should also be
On Sep 26, 2005, at 4:03 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 05:05 PM Monday 9/26/2005, Julia Thompson wrote:
I've been to Houston now and again, and it's a mess to navigate in
spots.
Even more so when you have eight people from out of town in a
subcompact car . . .
In some places in the US, t
Gary Nunn wrote:
>Wouldn't it be ironic if we WERE the result of intelligent design...
>Maybe, thousands of years ago, we were genetically engineered, by
>some alien race, to be slaves, cheap labor or pets. They should
>also be required to teach that theory.
I've often wondered what the intel
The fight to teach evolution or creation in schools will never go away.
There will always be some pinhead group that insists in pushing their
religious agenda into the classroom. My response would be something like:
"Ok, lets teach Creation and evolution side by side, but along with that, we
have
At 05:05 PM Monday 9/26/2005, Julia Thompson wrote:
I've been to Houston now and again, and it's a mess to navigate in spots.
Even more so when you have eight people from out of town in a
subcompact car . . .
--Ronn! :)
"Since I was a small boy, two states have been added to our country
Dave Land wrote:
From at least one of the shots, it seems that the supports for the
ceiling of the "pitch pressure tank" are about 3-4 feet thick by 20-30
feet wide, spaced about 30-40 feet apart. There may or may not be a
civil engineer on this list who can judge it better than I can, but I
wou
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Robert Seeberger wrote:
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From: "Robert J. Chassell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 8:49 AM
Subject: Re: Evacuation
On 2005 Sep 25, Dan Feldstein and Matt Stiles in The Houston
Chronicle
wrote
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/
On Sep 26, 2005, at 2:39 PM, Julia Thompson wrote:
I'm wondering, now, if you have any first-hand experience to support
or refute any of the ideas put forth by Frost in "Mending Wall".
The US-Canada border comes to mind. There's no literal wall, of course,
but the metaphorical one seems to su
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From: "Robert J. Chassell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 8:49 AM
Subject: Re: Evacuation
> On 2005 Sep 25, Dan Feldstein and Matt Stiles in The Houston
> Chronicle
> wrote
>
>http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/3369453
>
>
Robert J. Chassell wrote:
(My hunch is that the last notion will fade; but that people will find
the first three or four useful for centuries to come, just as Newton's
Laws are useful when considering planets, and Aristotle's useful when
moving heavy stones. By the way, speaking in defense of A
Warren Ockrassa wrote:
On Sep 26, 2005, at 1:26 PM, Julia Thompson wrote:
I witnessed someone drink over half a bottle of tequila in the course
of less than an hour. He came close to dying of alcohol poisoning
later that night
Good non-god! That's nowhere near as badly as I did it; tha
Well, being Darwinism is not a "law" ( merely speculations by the
"visually impaired" leading the "visually impaired")
Actually, we speak of Newton's ideas as Newton's Laws even though we
know they are wrong by experiment and theory. Darwin's ideas are
likely less wrong, and have been pro
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From: Richard Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Killer Bs Discussion
Sent: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 19:29:17 +0100
Subject: Re: or Something REALLY different / was: Brave New Genetic
Frontiers
Warren said:
> ALL trilobites were killed off in the Cambrian extinction, a
The secret ingredient appears to have been sex. Asexual reproduction, in
addition to being rather boring, doesn't introduce anywhere near the
possibility for diversification of a genome like sex does. So somewhere around
700 to 1000 million years ago, life discovered this new way to do thin
On Sep 26, 2005, at 1:26 PM, Julia Thompson wrote:
I witnessed someone drink over half a bottle of tequila in the course
of less than an hour. He came close to dying of alcohol poisoning
later that night
Good non-god! That's nowhere near as badly as I did it; that's just
plain nuts.
S
On Sep 26, 2005, at 1:13 PM, Dave Land wrote:
Hmm, maybe those dolphins aren't missing. Maybe they've spirited the
munitions away to some kind of underwater research facility where,
assisted by waldoes, they're busily reverse-engineering the devices.
It was bad enough when we were using dolph
Warren Ockrassa wrote:
I still can't take much tequila. In my college days I way, *way* overdid
it with some cheap stuff one night, and to this day the slightly oily
texture remains with me when I think about it. That's OK; it taught me
to be more moderate with other things, such as Guinness,
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To: Killer Bs Discussion
Sent: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 21:33:33 -0700
Subject: Re: Brave New Genetic Frontiers
On Sep 25, 2005, at 4:12 PM, Leonard Matusik wrote:
> How about this question... How probable would it be to artificially
On Sep 26, 2005, at 12:26 PM, Warren Ockrassa wrote:
On Sep 26, 2005, at 9:53 AM, Dave Land quoted:
Experts who have studied the US navy's cetacean training
exercises claim the 36 mammals could be carrying 'toxic dart'
guns. Divers and surfers risk attack, they claim, from a speci
On Sep 26, 2005, at 9:53 AM, Dave Land quoted:
Experts who have studied the US navy's cetacean training
exercises claim the 36 mammals could be carrying 'toxic dart'
guns. Divers and surfers risk attack, they claim, from a species
considered to be among the planet's smartest.
I
On Sep 26, 2005, at 12:07 PM, Julia Thompson wrote:
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 12:18 PM Monday 9/26/2005, Julia Thompson wrote:
Can we say anything about Uplift + Margarita?
For some integer n>0, it becomes difficult to successfully uplift the
nth Margarita to the mouth without spilling it.
On Sep 26, 2005, at 11:29 AM, Richard Baker wrote:
Warren said:
ALL trilobites were killed off in the Cambrian extinction, about 500
MY ago.
This is not true. As Leonard said, the trilobites were wiped out by
the end-Permian mass extinction. An excellent account of the
evolutionary history
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 12:18 PM Monday 9/26/2005, Julia Thompson wrote:
Can we say anything about Uplift + Margarita?
For some integer n>0, it becomes difficult to successfully uplift the
nth Margarita to the mouth without spilling it.
I think n varies from person to person.
n is no
From: Dave Land <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Folks,
Only Brin fans would grasp the true nature of the following story from the
Guardian:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/
0,6903,1577753,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/89xhk
"Armed and dangerous - Flipper the firing dolphin le
At 12:18 PM Monday 9/26/2005, Julia Thompson wrote:
Can we say anything about Uplift + Margarita?
For some integer n>0, it becomes difficult to successfully uplift the
nth Margarita to the mouth without spilling it.
--Ronn! :)
"Since I was a small boy, two states have been added to our c
Warren said:
ALL trilobites were killed off in the Cambrian extinction, about
500 MY ago.
This is not true. As Leonard said, the trilobites were wiped out by
the end-Permian mass extinction. An excellent account of the
evolutionary history of trilobites can be found in Richard Fortey's
Can we say anything about Uplift + Margarita?
Julia
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Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
> Had Federal authorities ordered an
> evacuation of N.O. and Katrina
> weakened or the levees held, the same
> people who have been raking the
> Bush administration over the coals for
> their slow response would probably be
> doing the same thing for ordering a
> wastef
Folks,
Only Brin fans would grasp the true nature of the following story
from the Guardian:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/
0,6903,1577753,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/89xhk
"Armed and dangerous - Flipper the firing dolphin let loose by Katrina"
It may be th
On Sep 26, 2005, at 8:14 AM, Horn, John wrote:
Behalf Of Russell Chapman
http://www.g-cans.jp/intro/07photo/
Wierd that a city that sits on an earthquake fault line uses
this sort of design for flood mitigation. I guess that's a
product of how critical their land use is - the land must b
On 9/24/05, Richard Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Leonard said:
>
> > How can blind cave fish could result purely from random mutations
> > (among several sub species no less)? I believe that several billion
> > tetras must have been sucked into Mexican caves in order for
> > "random mutatio
> Behalf Of Russell Chapman
> >
> > http://www.g-cans.jp/intro/07photo/
> >
> Wierd that a city that sits on an earthquake fault line uses
> this sort
> of design for flood mitigation. I guess that's a product of
> how critical
> their land use is - the land must be valued so high that any
PAT MATHEWS wrote:
From: Dave Land <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
TV cop Barretta used to say "Don't do the crime if you can't do
the time." I feel the same way about taking on the responsibility
of being President, head of FEMA, Governor or Mayor: "Don't take
the job if you can't take the flack."
Of cour
As far as I can see, there are three responses to the notion that
governments should be involved in dealing with disasters.
1. `Government is the problem'
The thesis is that governments will fail to act or will act
confusedly.
In particular, this notion means that people must depend
From: Dave Land <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Sep 25, 2005, at 10:17 PM, Warren Ockrassa wrote:
It's not possible to be a public figure *and* clear of criticism.
And here we have a President who prides himself on *not* reading,
who claims that "nobody could have expected the levees to fail" or
som
From: Warren Ockrassa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
It's startling to travel over *any* portion of US 66 and imagine how it
must have been to drive it when it was new. And how damned terrifying it
must have been to get passed in the opposing lane by a massive truck
especially given the lack of seat
On 2005 Sep 25, Dan Feldstein and Matt Stiles in The Houston Chronicle
wrote
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/3369453
... the regional evacuation plan was missing a key element --
pre-planned contraflow lanes ...
because
... Houston's freeway grid is much more comp
>Oil is too cheap. It should cost much more.
>
>Alberto Monteiro
High oil prices will turn out to be the proverbial double edge sword for oil
companies.
With prices going higher, the search and perfection of alternate fuel
sources will be made a greater priority.
Let's see how oil prices go
At 12:34 AM Monday 9/26/2005, Dave Land wrote:
TV cop Barretta used to say "Don't do the crime if you can't do
the time."
And we all know how ironic that came to sound . . .
--Ronn! :)
"Since I was a small boy, two states have been added to our country
and two words have been added to the
At 12:17 AM Monday 9/26/2005, Warren Ockrassa wrote:
On Sep 25, 2005, at 9:14 PM, Doug Pensinger wrote:
On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 11:18:56 -0500, Ronn!Blankenship
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
No, just that some people won't be satisfied no matter what happens.
Should we be satisfied with the leade
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