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To: Craig Wilson who wrote (1048)	3/16/1999 12:21:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5853

Craig, On ultraviolet light and plants liking it, it got started for me when in a botany section of the Science Museum in Paris [the big flash one which was new in the 1980s]. They had a bunch of plant things and shining ultraviolet light and visible blue light [I could see it] on the plants. I enquired about it and the plant growing guy, who I suppose knew what he was about, told me plants [maybe just those ones or some types of plants] like ultraviolet light. Pehaps visible light is fine too - the plants acting like broadband CDMA; collecting all spectrum, decoding the parts they want and using the rest for heating to keep chemical reaction times churning along. In any event, some variation in ultraviolet is no bad thing. People can easily get protection because there are genes available for really black skin. People seem to forget that black people didn't get black skin so they could get government favours; it was to give them an advantage over the melanoma crowd who had to live in the icy cold of northern Europe while the rest basked in the balmy tropics. The Europeans had to have white skin or freeze from excess heat loss due to black body radiator effects. Also, the metabolic demands of producing melanin which wasn't needed didn't help. Plants can just take turns standing in the sun - cacti can predominate in some areas and lettuce in others. There are a LOT of plant types. Anyway, with all the oil, gas and coal back in the biosphere, there will be more atmosphere and the CO2/oxygen levels will rebalance. Plants will proliferate as they gobble CO2 like crazy. Animals will too as they gobble the plants. All the water being breathed out will increase rainfall, so we'll have to have umbrellas handy too. If there is anyone who actually KNOWS how plants work, I'd appreciate them dropping in because making it up from what some jokerster told me in a museum 15 years ago and what they SHOULD do isn't quite the same. I used to have a car that ran on water! Well, that's what the guy on the forecourt thought after he poured water in the fuel tank at my instruction, just for fun. I used to work for an oil company doing methanol research. That might be how these rumours of evil oil companies buying up such technology and shutting it down get started. Maybe I'm like the guy on the forecourt and the museum attendant was having an arcane joke at my expense. Maurice PS: Robert Sheldon - I just thought I'd kick him while he's down! Heck, you make him and the umpty thousand scientists sound like a new kind of government department; not to be questioned, all wise and all knowing. Looks as though I better get stuck in before they get carried away with themselves.