Re: Prelude to the "grape drive"? [was: NASA Successfully Tests Ion Engine.]

On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 15:12:10 -0800, pervect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 08:41:52 -0800, Mary Shafer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> 
> >Can you get enough energy out of a grape that grapes are usable?
> >Would you grow grapes in space for long voyages?  Can the spent grapes
> >be used to make wine with?  Is there a market for space wine?
> >-- 
> >Mary Shafer   Retired aerospace research engineer
> 
> So, are you by any chance considering a new career as a writer of
> satire?  Or perhaps a TV ancherperson (or their scriptwriter).
> 
> :-)

Just anticipating.  What goes around, comes around, after having
undergone a rich and mysterious sea change.  Six months from now, this
subject line will reappear with a garbled version that does use grape
juice or grape seeds or something.  And thanks to me, we'll all know
what questions to ask the proponent.

I could never be a writer for an anchorperson; I'd be fired after
about a week.  Cf. "Chuckles the Clown Is Dead", an episode of the
Mary Tyler Moore Show.  Ted Baxter is, as far as I can tell, smarter
than many anchorpersons, by the way.  Or cf. "Dirty Laundry" by some
group or another.

Mary

-- 
Mary Shafer   Retired aerospace research engineer
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