Re: Why the oceans are salty?

Article View: ny.general

Article #1894

#1894

From: Steve
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2001 08:00

16 lines
2163 bytes


Professor Vonroach wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 03 Oct 2001 16:14:30 -0500, Steve <bozone@ripco.com> wrote:
> 
> >We do this simply by virtue of our own, built-in, biological measuring
> >devices.  It is unavoidable.  Only recently in human evolution have we
> >come to rely on abstract or mechanically enhanced models of reality.
> >Desperate times call for desperate measures.
> Really you have a built in meter stick, atomic clock, and scales?
> Sorry to be the one to pass the bad news on to you, but our senses are
> very poorly understood.

That's a shame, because those senses are our only means of interaction
with meter sticks, atomic clocks, and scales.

Technical Details

Message-ID: <3BBEBA07.A00E6EE1@ripco.com>

Path:

arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!sn-xit-04!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail

References:

<7cffa2b0.0109300950.1cf1174@posting.google.com> <3BB786AC.E374BE14@ripco.com> <9p8evt$q6k$2@gail.ripco.com> <rnofrtoo32cpsugalqbf6i0rhb7krt6ukc@5xg.com> <3bca5ba9.7717839@NNTP.ix.netcom.com> <3BBA4DB1.531CCF6C@ripco.com> <3bc4f295.5153104@NNTP.ix.netcom.com> <3BBB7FB1.F88EC367@ripco.com> <3bbf1bea.2366618@NNTP.ix.netcom.com>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 103916,8e015d674e32a90c
X-Google-Attributes: gid103916,public
X-Google-Thread: 10e835,8e015d674e32a90c
X-Google-Attributes: gid10e835,public
X-Google-Thread: 101049,8e015d674e32a90c
X-Google-Attributes: gid101049,public
X-Google-Thread: 107d03,8e015d674e32a90c
X-Google-Attributes: gid107d03,public
X-Google-Thread: 10a12a,8e015d674e32a90c
X-Google-Attributes: gid10a12a,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-06 01:52:13 PST
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!sn-xit-04!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail
From: Steve <bozone@ripco.com>
Newsgroups: ny.general,dc.general,chi.general,la.general,tx.general
Subject: Re: Why the oceans are salty?
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2001 03:00:20 -0500
Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com
Message-ID: <3BBEBA07.A00E6EE1@ripco.com>
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 (Macintosh; I; PPC)
X-Accept-Language: en,ja
MIME-Version: 1.0
References: <7cffa2b0.0109300950.1cf1174@posting.google.com> <3BB786AC.E374BE14@ripco.com> <9p8evt$q6k$2@gail.ripco.com> <rnofrtoo32cpsugalqbf6i0rhb7krt6ukc@5xg.com> <3bca5ba9.7717839@NNTP.ix.netcom.com> <3BBA4DB1.531CCF6C@ripco.com> <3bc4f295.5153104@NNTP.ix.netcom.com> <3BBB7FB1.F88EC367@ripco.com> <3bbf1bea.2366618@NNTP.ix.netcom.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com
Lines: 16

Reply to Parent Message