From: Harvey Newstrom (harv@gate.net)
Date: Fri Apr 24 1998 - 13:51:50 MDT
Ian Goddard wrote:
>
> At 10:32 AM 4/24/98 -0400, Harvey Newstrom wrote:
>
> >But what if the disease that so horribly eroded the Martians' faces was
> >caused by the same microbes contained in the meteorites from Mars?
> >Enquiring minds want to know! :-)
>
> IAN: Not sure how much of what you say is joke
> or not. I would say that the joke that the
> phenomena of erosion is caused by disease is
> silly to even raise as a joke, for it is known
> that erosion is caused by natural forces, so we
> need not introduce any other causes of erosion.
My joke was meant to imply that martians made the face look disfigured
by erosion because their own humanoid faces were similarly eroded by
some horrible disease...
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