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 (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: I'd meant to look up a more technical article for those so-inclined; here is one: http://www.sciencedaily.com/release

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 th

Re: It Came from Outer Space

2005-01-27 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Jan 26, 2005, at 6:01 PM, maru wrote: Really? I thought that was how the polytheistic/fetish cult of Mecca, centered around the black rock of Qaaba, got started. Yeah, that's the one. Co-opted later by Muhammad. At least as rational a cult as that which promotes ritual deicide and symbolic can

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 on

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 k

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 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 Chris

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. -- Warren

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, nightw

Re: It Came from Outer Space

2005-01-26 Thread Dave Land
On Jan 26, 2005, at 4:15 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 1/26/2005 4:49:21 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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

Re: It Came from Outer Space

2005-01-26 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 1/26/2005 4:49:21 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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 Damn. I thought