Re: Starting a New Life on Giligan's Island

Ralconte ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dubs) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
: > A Friend and I are interested in how people would recreate our
: > everyday technology if we had to go back to the stone age or to
: > giligan's island.   

: > What would you do if you were the
: > professer on Giligan's Island?
: > 
: So, what would happen if a group of scientists had to rebuild our
: technological advances, eh?  Hmm...  Well there was a trial of sorts
: ... called Biosphere II.  Google it.  There were many problems, but a
: major one was that a group of researchers is poorly suited for the
: performance of backbreaking labor.  For example; mining ores, forging
: tools, formal agriculture, food preservation techniques are exhausting
: tasks for someone not accustomed to performing manual labor sunup to
: sundown.  My mom is 65 and was a farmer in WWII-era Italy.  My
: diligence for yardwork is, compared to hers, laughable.

Just use grad students and postdocs.

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William "Dave" Thweatt
Robert E. Welch Postdoctoral Fellow
Chemistry Department
Rice University
Houston, TX
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