[61058] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sea sponge builds a better glass fiber
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott McGrath)
Thu Aug 21 17:12:46 2003
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 17:12:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: Scott McGrath <mcgrath@fas.harvard.edu>
To: David Meyer <dmm@1-4-5.net>
Cc: Alex Lambert <alambert@quickfire.org>,
Eric Kuhnke <eric@fnordsystems.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20030821134806.A7560@1-4-5.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
The natural enemy in this case would be the filefish or the angelfish who
eat the sponges...
Scott C. McGrath
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, David Meyer wrote:
>
> >> 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
>
