Re: James A. van Allen, 1914-2006

In a message dated 8/11/2006 5:51:29 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That's really too bad. My father studied under him as a student, and he seemed like a neat guy (quite aside from his accomplishments). ~maru The correct science fiction tribute would be to go to

Re: James A. van Allen, 1914-2006

On 8/10/06, Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <> -- Ronn! :) "Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot remain in the cradle forever." -- Konstantin E. Tsiolkovskiy That's really too bad. My father studied under him as a st

Re: Question for Charlie

Alberto Monteiro wrote: Richard Baker wrote: Your answer concentrated on the morality of creating human/chimp hybrids in the first place, rather than on their status once created. I specifically crafted the question so that the morality of their creation wasn't the focus of attention, and i

Re: Question for Charlie

Richard Baker wrote: > > Your answer concentrated on the morality of creating human/chimp > hybrids in the first place, rather than on their status once > created. I specifically crafted the question so that the morality > of their creation wasn't the focus of attention, and in fact agree >

Re: Moving to Montana Soon?

JDG said: > At the end of the day, this chapter seems like a laundry list of > environmental problems facing Montana. That's all well and good, but a > similar list of problems could probably be produced for almost any > location you care to name. What doesn't happen is that this list of > pro

Re: Moving to Montana Soon?

This first chapter is also of particular interest to me, as I traveled extensively through the State of Montana two years ago while retracing the Lewis and Clark Trail - and I'll additionally find myself in the town of Big Sky, MT next week on business for work. The chapter certainly held my int

Re: Collapse

Doug Pensinger wrote: >Unfortunately I've been very busy and haven't had a chance to do >Chapter 2 yet. Ditto. Work's been treating me like a baby treats a diaper, so I've been glad to see I'm not falling behind. :) Jim ___ Join Excite! - http://ww

Re: Collapse

JDG saidL > To the best of my understanding, this is not simply an NPS thing, but > really does represent the professional consensus of historians. > Again, while I tend to be a "brontosaurus" person, there definitely is > something to be said for not defining a culture as an "enemy", and I > don'

Re: Collapse

--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Doug Pensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One of the things the National Park Service > > emphasized is that the term "Ancestral Puebloan" is preferred for > > this civilization over the term "Anasazi." The term "Anasazi" is > > linked to a Navajo word meaning "anci