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To: Jon Koplik who wrote (61959)	1/13/2000 9:09:00 AM
From: Jeffry K. Smith	Respond to of 152472

Page B1 of the Wall Street Journal today contains an article comparing cellular plans and experiences - AT&T vs Bell Atlantic. Without going into costs, the "on air" result was that the writer's B.A. experience was much better than AT&T's and contains the line "...the company claims that the digital wireless technology it uses, called CDMA , is more pervasive than AT&T's rival TDMA technology." Now, based solely on what I have learned on this thread, I would say someone needs to educate whoever said that at B.A. to be more like "CDMA is better than TDMA, not because of coverage, which may or may not be better, but because CDMA provides an inherently clearer connection." OH - one other thing - the phone he used was the Qualcomm Thin Phone, QPC 860. Best, Jeff Smith

To: Jon Koplik who wrote (61959)	1/13/2000 9:59:00 AM
From: Jill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

The origin of life story goes on....I find this theory very interesting, except of course it begs the question: so how did life start on Mars?????? And then we're back where we started...the old primordial soup.

To: Jon Koplik who wrote (61959)	1/13/2000 10:02:00 AM
From: T L Comiskey	Respond to of 152472

Jon......OT....According to Hoyle.( and Wickramasinghe)..actually a theory dating way back to the late 1800's "Life on Mars" is not the first book written jointly by Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe. Their revolutionary idea that life on Earth has its origins in outer space, and that it was originally brought by means of the collision of comets, has received a special attention on the part of all the scientific community. Since they stated for the first time their theory in the seventies, several advances have allowed to re-define many of the dark points they fell into. Now, they attack once again with a work where they intend to present, armed with logic and scientific reasoning, all the arguments that make of their idea a convincing explanation of the origin of life. Such discoveries as that of August, 1996, with the possibility of the existence of life on Mars, clearly corroborate the fact that life is probably a cosmic phenomenon, common to the entire universe, at the very least in a microbial stage. The theory by this pair of eminent astronomers, known as Panspermia, is here reviewed with special attention being paid to the details, so as to take us step by step into the different points that intend to support it scientifically. In a clear, concise language, with a praiseworthy intention to divulge, Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe will fascinate the reader with their reasoned explanations, a mixture of astronomy, astrophysics, biology and chemistry easily understandable by everybody. The book ends with an interesting appendix with a renewed theory on the strange origin of the influenza, probably extraterrestrial.