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To: Rich Goldsmith who wrote (988)	10/24/1997 10:59:00 AM
From: Elliot Mausner	Respond to of 1320

Dear Rich, Maybe it will help to hear of others in your position. I,too, am a former Copy bull who has come to his senses. I am now on to bigger and better things,but, after a week of vacation to celebrate 50, I came back to over 50 postings of the most delicious tongue in cheek comedy from the shorts to the most creative pieces of "non-fictional" writing since the death of J. Michener from the longs. What other thread would bring as many talented writers together to produce this much entertainment. It's easily worth the price of membership in SI. That's why I'm addicted. Keep up the good stuff guys, Elliot

To: Rich Goldsmith who wrote (988)	10/24/1997 11:02:00 AM
From: Mike Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1320

Dom admit it: Denis walks on water: POLYWATER AND THE ROLE OF SKEPTICISM The case of polywater demonstrates how the desire to believe in a new phenomenon can sometimes overpower the demand for solid, well-controlled evidence. In 1966 the Soviet scientist Boris Valdimirovich Derjaguin lectured in England on a new form of water that he claimed had been discovered by another Soviet scientist, N. N. Fedyakin. Formed by heating water and letting it condense in quartz capillaries, this "anomalous water," as it was originally called, had a density higher than normal water, a viscosity 15 times that of normal water, a boiling point higher than 100 degrees Centigrade, and a freezing point lower than zero degrees. Over the next several years, hundreds of papers appeared in the scientific literature describing the properties of what soon came to be known as polywater. Theorists developed models, supported by some experimental measurements, in which strong hydrogen bonds were causing water to polymerize. Some even warned that if polywater escaped from the laboratory, it could autocatalytically polymerize all of the world's water. Then the case for polywater began to crumble. Because polywater could only be formed in minuscule capillaries, very little was available for analysis. When small samples were analyzed, polywater proved to be contaminated with a variety of other substances, from silicon to phospholipids. Electron microscopy revealed that polywater actually consisted of finely divided particulate matter suspended in ordinary water. Gradually, the scientists who had described the properties of polywater admitted that it did not exist. They had been misled by poorly controlled experiments and problems with experimental procedures. As the problems were resolved and experiments gained better controls, evidence for the existence of polywater disappeared. >>>if polywater escaped from the laboratory, it could autocatalytically polymerize all of the world's water.<<< Could this happen to our TV screens? DON'T BE MAGICONNED. Denis must be stopped, we already have ONE 'World's richest man'. Your servant, M Ch.