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From: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: .aquaria
Summary: Tropical fish. Good enough for Hitler, why not you ?
Message-ID: <21000@gryphon.COM>
Date: 16 Oct 89 17:48:06 GMT
References: <20984@gryphon.COM> <1989Oct16.115545.12476@agate.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <1989Oct16.115545.12476@agate.berkeley.edu> gsmith@garnet.berkeley.edu (Gene W. Smith) writes:
>
>  People voted for Hitler as Chancellor too. A vote is not to
>determine what is best, or what is right, but what is going to
>happen. A winning vote is not evidence that the winning voters
>were correct.

You can tell when a USENET discussion is getting old when one of
the participents drags out Hitler and the Nazis.

>>You can't kill snails.
>
>  I've killed snails. I've even fed them to my duck.

Alright, You can't kill *all* the snails.

>What follows is a scientific discussion of sorts.

Oh. Objective.

>It is more or less research,

Oh. Objective.

>though not exactly earth-shaking:

Yeah, it's *just fish*. Subjective.


>the conclusions
>drawn are of the sort "Wow! Plants produce oxygen, just like They
>say!".

No, thats a given. The point is this this information has been around
for a ong time (although CO2 injection to enhance aquaric plant growth
is new, even though is discovered to be the limiting factor  by
Scheel in '66) but *nobody has ever quantified it*.

``Which curve should I use for this animation here ? I have
a bunch of equations''

``Uh, dunno. we don't really know, they're all about the same. Bezier
I guess.''

It's *just math*.

>The general level is about that of a high school science

I for one would be delighted if sci.bio was elevated to the
high school level.

>  Needless to say, this posting is not typical of the "what can I
>do to keep my guppies alive?" stuff which makes up the majority
>of alt.aquaria.

You must see a different majority than I do.

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