Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 21:16:16 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
From: Candy Madigan <candymadigan at mindspring.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Leonardo Da Vinci
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Actually, I'm one of the bottled water people, but only because I don't
like the taste of water, and at least the bottled stuff isn't as icky as
what comes out of the taps here in Greenbelt.

Shortly after the anthrax fun, I went to Costco because I had run out of
bottled water.  I couldn't figure out at first why they were sold out of
the cheap stuff, then I realized what it was.

At 08:58 PM 04/03/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>ronkean at juno.com wrote:
>
> > Many of the water molecules in someone alive today were at one time
> > in the body of Leonardo Da Vinci, when he was alive.
>
>This is a great opportunity for promoting space exploration and
>utilization.  Rely on people's squeamishness.  These people who pay
>good money for bottled water rather than drink icky old tap water
>would be a great marketing opportunity for water that is guaranteed
>never to have been anyone's urine.  Nor to have ever been part of a
>cockroach, maggot, worm, or slug.
>
>Instead of having a picture of a 32 degree glacier on the bottle,
>there would be a picture of a minus 400 degree Kuiper belt object.
>Or perhaps one of the countless trillions of ice shards that makes
>up Saturn's rings.
>
>If this trend catches on widely enough, it could result in rising
>sea levels, and flooding of low lying cities.  The solution to this
>problem is yet more space exploitation.  Launch our waste water into
>space.  Perhaps set aside a "toilet planet".  Or simply dump it into
>the sun, as has been proposed for nuclear waste.
>
>Imagine how exciting toilet training will be when pressing the flush
>lever causes a rocket to shoot up from behind the commode.
>--
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Candy