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Re: Sea sponge builds a better glass fiber
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Meyer)
Thu Aug 21 16:54:08 2003
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 13:48:06 -0700
From: David Meyer <dmm@1-4-5.net>
To: Alex Lambert <alambert@quickfire.org>
Cc: Eric Kuhnke <eric@fnordsystems.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3F452E42.6020308@quickfire.org>; from alambert@quickfire.org on Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 03:40:34PM -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>> I'm still waiting for the discovery of its natural enemy, the Backhoeiosaur.
All kidding aside, my concern is that it's natural enemy
has just found it.
>> It's such a wonderful example of how exquisite nature is as a
>> designer and builder of complex systems," said Geri Richmond, a
>> chemist and materials scientist at the University of Oregon who
>> wasn't involved in the study.
>>
>> "We can draw it on paper and think about engineering it but
>> we're in the stone age compared to nature," she said.
That much seems clear.
Dave
