Re: Mystery Mountain Meteorite Malady

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:11:55 -0500, Pat Flannery <flanner@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

This fits very neatly to the observed facts; respertory symtems on those
that approached the crater, flaming object falling from sky, big crater
with metal debris around it.

....You know, we've all been making the jokes about Andromeda(*),
nobody's asked the *really* important question: are there any old bums
with dogs who were last seen poking sticks into the hole?


(*) One of the things Crichton needs to do is to give that classic the
one modernization tweak that'll make the epilog finally some sense:
The reason Andromeda's a crystal is that it's actually a nanite whose
purpose is to keep Humanity grounded on Earth by destroying all
synthetic rubbers - polycron, sorbathane - that are necessary for
pressure gaskets on spacecraft.

OM
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