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- From: eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
- Subject: Re: Collecting
- References: <1993Jan19.185451.28028@ncar.ucar.edu> <1993Jan20.012905.17203@butch.lmsc.lockheed.com> <1993Jan20.192440.11383@news.cs.brandeis.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 05:15:06 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan20.192440.11383@news.cs.brandeis.edu>
- andyh@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Andrew J. Huang) writes:
- >I've also seen rangers tramp carelessly on vegetation in above
- >treeline alpine areas. Rangers are human.
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- People tend to look upon vegies as something which will grow back.
- Besides Park rangers were allowed to hunt to supplement their incomes
- until the 1930s.
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- >Innocent? I thought so.
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- A start.
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- >If every visitor did so? It becomes not so innocent anymore.
- >Strange that the more who participate, the less acceptable it becomes, eh?
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- Population pressure. Concept of carrying capacity.
- Intelligence is coming to the realization it's not inductive.
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- --eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
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- A Ref: Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning, vol. 1, G. Polya
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