It Came From Outer Space (sorta...)

2007-10-04 Thread Deborah Harrell
Looks like the astronauts have been lucky so far, and in retrospect justifies the extremes of quarantine post-return (well, and pre-flight too) from missions: http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/19425/ ...Salmonella grown onboard the space shuttle was many times deadlier than its terrestrial

Re: It Came From Outer Space (sorta...)

2007-10-04 Thread Deborah Harrell
I wrote: Looks like the astronauts have been lucky so far and in retrospect justifies the extremes of quarantine post-return (well, and pre-flight too) from missions: snip I'd meant to look up a more technical article for those so-inclined; here is one:

Re: It Came From Outer Space (sorta...)

2007-10-04 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 04:06 PM Thursday 10/4/2007, Deborah Harrell wrote: Looks like the astronauts have been lucky so far, and in retrospect justifies the extremes of quarantine post-return (well, and pre-flight too) from missions: http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/19425/ ...Salmonella grown onboard the

RE: It Came from Outer Space

2005-01-27 Thread Horn, John
Behalf Of Warren Ockrassa No word yet on the rock's plan to fix Social Security. No no no. The rock is an example of what will happen if we don't act to fix social security immediately. It's a crisis and the sky is already falling! As long as they don't talk about raising the Mars

It Came from Outer Space

2005-01-26 Thread Dave Land
Folks, A 10-pound meteorite landed in a Cambodian rice paddy, setting the field on fire and making a foot-deep hole. No word yet on the rock's plan to fix Social Security. Dave ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: It Came from Outer Space

2005-01-26 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Jan 26, 2005, at 4:48 PM, Dave Land wrote: No word yet on the rock's plan to fix Social Security. No no no. The rock is an example of what will happen if we don't act to fix social security immediately. It's a crisis and the sky is already falling! -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor,

Re: It Came from Outer Space

2005-01-26 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Jan 26, 2005, at 5:28 PM, Dave Land wrote: Apparently so -- the Reuters article says that the superstitious villagers seem to want to place it in a shrine and pray (to? over? for?) it, but the government wants to study it. That's more or less exactly how Islam started. I'm not kidding. --

Re: It Came from Outer Space

2005-01-26 Thread maru
Really? I thought that was how the polytheistic/fetish cult of Mecca, centered around the black rock of Qaaba, got started. Islam I had thought was a syncretistic cult combining Arabic mythology, handy elements of the aforementioned cult for cheap legitmacy, and a heaping dose of Nestorian

Re: It Came from Outer Space

2005-01-26 Thread Dave Land
On Jan 26, 2005, at 5:01 PM, maru wrote: Warren Ockrassa wrote: That's more or less exactly how Islam started. Best watch out Warren! Being a Westerner already offends extremists, and 'atheistic' statements like dat might git you kilt! Kilt? I had no idea Warren was Scottish! Dave

Re: It Came from Outer Space

2005-01-26 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 1/26/2005 6:02:23 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ~Maru Best watch out Warren! Being a Westerner already offends extremists, and 'atheistic' statements like dat might git you kilt! I am now trying to get rid of the mental picture of Warren in a

Re: It Came from Outer Space

2005-01-26 Thread maru
Err... Perhaps my oh-so-subtle-religious-wacko-dialect humor was lost on you. *Meant to say something along the lines of: 'You had better watch what you say Warren, as being a cyncial, Western, literate, gay (I do have that right, right? I'm not just imaging that Warren has said he was gay