Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 23:20:15 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Leonardo Da Vinci
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

>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

I am reminded of a quote attributed to W. C. Fields about what fish do in =
water.

mjw

>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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