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- From: glp@fig.citib.com (Greg Parkinson)
- Subject: Re: What homing device does a virus use?
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- References: <1e8fusINNqmc@im4u.cs.utexas.edu> <17491@pitt.UUCP> <lgihacINN6hm@peaches.cs.utexas.edu> <1992Nov18.153257.1352@ircam.fr>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:20:49 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.153257.1352@ircam.fr>, francis@ircam.fr (Joseph Francis) writes:
- |> 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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- You of course meant to type "semen retention" here.
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