Re: The Science of The Lost World

["JOHN C. ROBINSON" <jcrobin@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu>]

On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, William C. Ward wrote:
(referring to a missive from the estimable Dr. Willis (P))
> 
> No flame intended,
> 
> But isn't this like asking why the manufacturer of Animal Crackers don't pay 
> a portion of their profits to zoology?
> 
> Or why Bounty paper napkins pays nothing to support the lumberjacks of the 
> Pacific Northwest?
> 
> 
> -William C. Ward

I may, of course, be misinterpreting Dr Willis, but I suspect he was 
demonstrating that fine "Down-Under" kind of humor (the very same that 
got so many of the early settlers of that region transported... ;-)
As an observation, I can't recall ever having seen a thread stretched 
quite so thin - spider silk is coarse and rope-like by comparison <NOTE - 
comparison to be taken il-literately only!>
Regards,
        JR