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- From: tycchow@riesz.mit.edu (Timothy Y. Chow)
- Subject: Re: Brinkman's question on carbohydrates
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.011901.26469@galois.mit.edu>
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- References: <1993Jan20.181104.1@si151a.llnl.gov>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 01:19:01 GMT
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- Ted Holden writes:
- <Basically, velikovsky is saying that chemicals entering
- <out atmosphere from that of Venus formed, possibly in combination with
- <elements of our own atmosphere, hydrocarbons which rained down on earth
- <during the time of plagues mentioned in Exodus and, at a somewhat later
- <time, some of these same chemicals, or others, or again some other combination
- <of earth and venus atmospheric elements, which were in suspension in our
- <clouds still, somehow or other formed into edible compounds (carbohydrates)
- <and condensed out.
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- In article <1993Jan20.181104.1@si151a.llnl.gov> brinkman@si151a.llnl.gov writes:
- <If there is "nothing magical" about converting hydrocarbons to carbohydrates,
- <show me even a single example where this has been done in the modern world.
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- Where did you get the idea of "converting" hydrocarbons to carbohydrates?
- Ted doesn't say this. All he says is that hydrocarbons and carbohydrates
- both formed out of the combined atmospheres of Earth and Venus. If you want
- to spend time refuting Ted, at least get his claims straight.
- --
- Tim Chow tycchow@math.mit.edu
- Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs
- 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and weigh
- only 1 1/2 tons. ---Popular Mechanics, March 1949
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