--- Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Deborah Harrell wrote:
Apparently we've inadvertantly helped develop a
bacterium that needs our waste to live:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/ap/20030703/ap_on_sc/toxic_feeder_5
...Vinyl chloride is one of the most common and
From: Jim Sharkey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bryon Daly wrote:
I actually have the majority of the SC2 music in .mod format, which
is actually their original format.
Anyway, I have a zip file with 34 .mods from SC2 - it's about 1.9MB.
So if your interested, I can email the file to you (and anyone else
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 11:29:26PM -0400, David Hobby wrote:
Erik Reuter wrote:
but since R_e = 6370km, and h = 1km, (1 + h / R_e) = 1 is an
excellent approximation so the formula becomes
P/P0 = exp[ -( h / R_e )( R_e m g / k / T ) ]
= exp[ -739 ( h / R_e )]
I can't
For the Harry Potter books, I like the UK cover art better, at least judging
from Order Of The Phoenix. And I regret the dumbing down of the book
1 title in the US by changing Philosopher's Stone to Sorceror's Stone.
Me too. I have purchased all 5 books from amazon.co.uk because I preferred the
Marvel scraps plan for comic book Princess Di
Storyline was to be called 'Di Another Day'
NEW YORK (Reuters) --A U.S. comic book publisher has decided to let
Princess Diana rest in peace, dropping plans to reincarnate her as a mutant
comic superhero this fall, the company said Thursday.
Twin mystery confounds doctors
First case of fraternal twins sharing a placenta documented
(AP) --Contradicting nearly all the medical textbooks, doctors have proven
for the first time that fraternal, or nonidentical, twins can share a placenta.
Until now, doctors believed that only identical
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Nokia has developed a security camera that can beam pictures directly
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---Original Message---
From: Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If it's no-hitters you want, Ryan is better.
I'll admit that I don't know more than the first thing about Sandy Kofax, but I feel
compelled to point out that the above argument is specious - in my eyes, anyways. If
arguing
---Original Message---
From: Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you think Sandy Koufax was the best pitcher of all time, you're simply wrong.
There is no serious argument for this.
If you think he was the most dominant pitcher on a
per-game basis you're also wrong, but at least you
Robert Seeberger wrote:
Gardner is a quite good journeyman writer. Expendable is pretty good, but
its sequels are even more fun.
I read this recently and enjoyed it. Care to give the titles of the
sequels???
Regards, Ray.
___
Erik Reuter wrote:
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 01:03:14PM +1000, Ray Ludenia wrote:
And once again, we have a winner! Congratulations!
Which one? Which won?
Witch wun?? Did I need to spell it out for you? ;-
Regards, Ray/
___
--- John D. Giorgis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thus, the mere fact that Sandy Kofax isn't tops in
strikeouts - (and the fact that you didn't really
follow that up with other signgle-measures of
greatness) tells me nothing about whether or not
Kofax merits the title of greatest pitcher of
---Original Message---
From: Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If a running back ran for 2500 yards his rookie
season and never played another game, would you say he
was the greatest running back of all time, or one who
had a really great season?
Actually, a guy who somewhat matches
--- John D. Giorgis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually, a guy who somewhat matches that profile is
Terrell Davis - who was one of three backs to ever
run for 2000+ yards in a season, and had several
very good years before getting injured.
I think that Terrell Davis belongs in the pantheon
From: Kevin Tarr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
When Jon had his little rant about books into movies and
actors who play
the roles, I agreed with him and feel the same way about
sporting matches.
Ahem, that was John as in 'jmh', not Jon. But that's OK. grin
The only people more
On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 08:13 am, Doug Pensinger wrote:
The reason I term myself Agnostic rather than Atheist is that though I
have no doubt that there is no omnipotent, omnibenevolent god that
watches over us and listens to our prayers, and absolutely no doubt
that the idea of heaven
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
Twin mystery confounds doctors
First case of fraternal twins sharing a placenta documented
(AP) --Contradicting nearly all the medical textbooks, doctors have proven
for the first time that fraternal, or nonidentical, twins can share a placenta.
Guess the folks
--- The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns3916
Nanotechnology may create new organs
Scientists have built a minute, functioning vascular
system - the
branching network of blood vessels which supply
nutrients and oxygen to
tissues - in a
Someone wrote:
For the Harry Potter books, I like the UK cover art better, at least
judging
from Order Of The Phoenix. And I regret the dumbing down of the book
1 title in the US by changing Philosopher's Stone to Sorceror's
Stone.
Tom Beck replied:
Me too. I have purchased all 5 books from
Bryon wrote:
For the Harry Potter books, I like the UK cover art better, at least
judging
from Order Of The Phoenix.
Yeah, it's a lot better for *all* of them.
And I regret the dumbing down of the book
1 title in the US by changing Philosopher's Stone to Sorceror's Stone.
There are some web
--- Jean-Louis Couturier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
It's wholesome, bright, and unpolluted by
advertising tie-in gimmicks; it
promotes literacy, and my children benefit from it
enormously, so it's only
natural that the PBS show Reading Rainbow is about
to lose its signature
butterfly wings
Andrew Crystall wrote:
Not really a direct reply, but I'm currently reading
_The Mote Arround Mucheson's Eye_
(yes, the sequel to _A Mote in god's Eye_)
In the US its known as The Gripping Hand. Not quite as good as Mote
(which, IMHO, belongs in the top 10 ever). In fact, I didn't like it
Andrew Crystall wrote:
Not really a direct reply, but I'm currently reading
_The Mote Arround Mucheson's Eye_
(yes, the sequel to _A Mote in god's Eye_)
George Akin replied:
In the US its known as The Gripping Hand. Not quite as good as Mote
(which, IMHO, belongs in the top 10 ever).
For some
http://tinyurl.com/go9z
A container ship lost a container of bath toys, including 29,000 rubber
duckies, over 11 years ago. The toys have been floating in the oceans
ever since and some are believed to be washing onto the shores of New
England.
Julia
Sing Along With Ernie Maru
Michael Harney wrote:
I know that this list was originally started as a list dedicated to
discussion of specific authors and their books, so I thought I would bring
up a topic that is closer to being actually on topic in the little time
that
I have to compose email today (at least part of
http://www.augustachronicle.com/stories/071103/met_174-8955.000.shtml
School board approves Bible class
Web posted Thursday, July 10, 2003
By Greg Rickabaugh | Staff Writer
An off-campus Christian education program was approved for a full year
Thursday for one Richmond County school, but some
In a message dated 7/11/2003 4:34:12 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
If you think he was the most dominant pitcher on a
per-game basis you're also wrong, but at least you
have a case and we can talk about it. Arguing that he
was better than Seaver or Clemens is foolish.
In a message dated 7/11/2003 9:19:09 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
John, that's my point. What is the purpose of a
pitcher? It's to keep runs off the board. That's it.
A pitcher has only one function on a team.
No-hitters, strikeouts, stuff, they're all
In a message dated 7/11/2003 9:28:04 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Furthermore, injuries aren't a random or infrequent
factor for pitchers. They are a non-random, frequent
factor. Power pitchers are less likely to get injured
that soft-tossers (Koufax, of course, was
In a message dated 7/11/2003 11:07:15 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Yeah, that's my entire point. He's a fine running
back. But it takes more than that to be the best ever.
Well how about Jim Brown. Walked away from football still in his prime after several
dominant
In a message dated 7/11/2003 11:07:15 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Yeah, that's my entire point. He's a fine running
back. But it takes more than that to be the best ever.
Well how about Jim Brown. Walked away from football still in his prime after several
dominant
- Original Message -
From: Ray Ludenia [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: BRIN L [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 8:30 AM
Subject: Re: Reading lists.
Robert Seeberger wrote:
Gardner is a quite good journeyman writer. Expendable is pretty good,
but
its sequels are even more fun.
G. D. Akin wrote:
I haven't read much of Anne McCaffrey; nothing of Pern, but I did read
Dinosaur Planet which I'd rate as average. I have a friend who highly
recommends her Ship Who ... series and maybe someday I'll read some, but I
have of them none in the queue.
I found the Dinosaur
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
By the way I
thing Tom Seaver a pretty knowledgable baseball guy
who had some knowledge of Koufax growing up in
California has said he thinks Koufax was the best
pitcher ever.
Well Koufax, Bob, a pretty knowledgeable baseball guy,
said that Pedro was better than
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
He didn't pitch long enough because he pitched in a
different era. He was every bit the physical
specimen that Clemens is. For 5 years consecutive
years he was the best in the game. No one else can
make that claim.
Are you sure? Maddux won four consecutive Cy
At 06:33 PM 7/11/2003 -0700, you wrote:
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
He didn't pitch long enough because he pitched in a
different era. He was every bit the physical
specimen that Clemens is. For 5 years consecutive
years he was the best in the game. No one else can
make that claim.
Are you
- Original Message -
From: Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 8:51 PM
Subject: Re: On the topic of atheism.
Robert Seeberger wrote:
Erik, could you give me a brief rundown on the repeatable experiments
I'm curious as to peoples opinion on questec, the system baseball is now
using to evaluate the umpire's strike calling. Info at
http://espn.go.com/mlb/s/2003/0605/1563649.html
Personally, I'm very happy to see them doing something about the
inconsistency of the zone. I'm not completely sold
--- Jon Gabriel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
I do believe that since our scientific capacities
and capabilities are
increasing each day (and with them, our knowledge of
the universe) that it
is perfectly possible and imo, likely that science
will one day identify
God. But I don't
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