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From: lonetto@phri.UUCP (Michael Lonetto)
Newsgroups: talk.origins
Subject: Re: metamorphoses... Sagan-Greenhouse ==> Thoop-solar-collector
Message-ID: <2434@phri.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 10-Sep-86 12:20:13 EDT
Article-I.D.: phri.2434
Posted: Wed Sep 10 12:20:13 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 13-Sep-86 07:14:46 EDT
References: <615@imsvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: lonetto@phri.UUCP (Michael Lonetto)
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Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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Keywords: warning: no substance
Summary: My one and only reply to ted.  Don't bother to answer.

In article <615@imsvax.UUCP> ted@imsvax.UUCP (Ted Holden) writes:

(Lots of quoted stuff about greenhouses as solar collectors and melting 
lead)

>Solar collectors, as I understand them, involve FOCUSING large amounts
>of energy on a small area either through lenses or parabolic reflectors.
>Since the atmosphere of Venus is concave DOWN (towards the surface of
>the planet), this would only work for light coming from the ground.
>Sorry, throop,  I'm more of a big-game hunter than that.  I mean, I'll
>stick to debunking SAGAN;  you can give your thermal collector theory to the
>local second grade class to debunk.
>
(Quote from net.physics followed by very silly car/spaceship analogy)

>I write articles to net.origins on occasion for the benefit of a small
>handfull of people out there who can and have learned something from
>them;  that obviously doesn't include Throop or three or four of my
>loudest detractors.
>
>I'm not even INTERESTED in debating you, Throop.  

I'm not even interested in READING you, ted@imsvax.  I think that you 
nearly singlehandedly responsible for the reclassification of origins
as "talk".  You've certainly reduced my interest in reading this 
group.  A glance at the net statistics will show that YOU produce
most of the verbiage in this group, and that the group is only read
by 3% of the net readers.  I suspect that many of THOSE, like myself,
have the following line in their net.origins KILL file:

/ted@imsvax/h:j

And are soon to put it in their talk.origins KILL file.

Michael Lonetto    UUCP:(allegra!phri!lonetto) 
USMAIL: Public Health Research Institute, 455 1st Ave, NY, NY 10016