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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (10321)4/29/1998 5:23:00 PM
From: Gauguin  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 71178
 
>>>> It's very reassuring when two independent methods yield the same result within the error bars.<<<<

Yah. I felt like, just like, Einstein, when all those astronomers saw Venus (Mercury?) appear early from behind the sun. And then when my parents "confirmed" ~ a historical source ~ I knew the exhilaration of the greats. (Remember Alex Haley finding Kunte Kinte?)

>>>>If we ignore for a moment the ethical storm blowing around the definitions,<<<<

I worked hard on that. Didn't even apologize, not wanting to draw attention to all those giant PC's sitting in the front row of everyone's mind, with their fat thighs bulging hideously through the armrests.

oooops.

It's (probably only marginally) interesting that the majority of the genetic variability, the vast vast vast majority, was left up to the male. A woman is born (yes?) with like 300 eggs, and "mr populate with abundance" produces say what 1-10 million different blooms per sneeze. That's a lot of contestants.

Once they learned to make them, they could make a lot.

I'm going to have to look into how it's done. How the codes are doled out. I see a big bowl, with someone stirring, with a bunch of soldiers in line under a tarp.

PS: I think this crap about no two snowflakes being alike has gone on too long.



To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (10321)4/29/1998 11:20:00 PM
From: JF Quinnelly  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 71178
 
("Waht" no longer shows red on the spell warden screen. I am impressed. Tihs is now an acknowledged part of SI culture.)

Yes, but does the Mosquito get credit for his neologism? Why am I not surprised?