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- From: francis@ircam.fr (Joseph Francis)
- Subject: Re: What homing device does a virus use?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.153257.1352@ircam.fr>
- Organization: Inst. de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique, Paris
- References: <1e8fusINNqmc@im4u.cs.utexas.edu> <17491@pitt.UUCP> <lgihacINN6hm@peaches.cs.utexas.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 15:32:57 GMT
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- In article <lgihacINN6hm@peaches.cs.utexas.edu> turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin) writes:
- >-*----
- >In article <17491@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:
- >> The same way that plant seeds distinguish soil from rocks: they don't, ...
- >
- >For once, you lose me. Seeds clearly do distinguish soil from
- >rocks: they grow in the former and die on the latter. I suspect
- >either of us could even make a reasonable explanation of the
- >mechanisms involved. Now ... What are the mechanisms in the case
- >of the question I posed?
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- This is starting to become a Woody Allen script as a takeoff on
- Dostoyevsky and the parables of Christ. Next we'll have someone
- talking about the genetic manipulations arabadopsis, and the tale of
- the mustard seed w.r.t sexual abstinence and homoeopathic spiritual
- reawakening.
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