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  3. From: b_nbca@icarus.lbl.gov (Bruce Nordman)
  4. Newsgroups: sci.skeptic,sci.environment
  5. Subject: Re: Biosphere III?
  6. Date: 16 Nov 1992 22:27:11 GMT
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  14.  
  15. In article <u926135.721718495@tasman>, u926135@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (Adrian
  16. Hassall Lewis) writes:
  17. |> 
  18. |>     I am rather suprised at this statement.  Under the Madrid Protocol
  19. |> NO alien plants or animals are allowed in the Antarctic.  <<rest deleted>>
  20.  
  21. <<nitpick here>>
  22.  
  23. Shouldn't this read "NO alien plants or animals  except for homo sapiens" ?
  24. (I'm suggesting that we qualify as animals, not as plants, despite
  25. all those couch potatoes).
  26.  
  27. Bruce Nordman
  28. B_Nordman@lbl.gov
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