David Lloyd-Jones (david.lloyd-jones at canrem.com) wrote:
:John at longevb.demon.co.uk asks:
:: JD+In article: <3lgf2r$dui at mserv1.dl.ac.uk> <W.G.VAN.DOORN at ATO.AGRO.NL>
: +writes:
: +> There are plants (ferns and trees) that live for thousands of years. In
: +> such plants, however, each dividing cell has a life which is probably
: + ^^^^^^^^
: +> much shorter, similar to the situation in the bacterial colony.
: +>
: JD+Has anyone any hard facts on this? It looks as though this is an important
: +point.
: John,
:: Van Doorn has just presented the hard fact, elegantly and succinctly
: stated. I think it's a testimony to the Net's degradation that you
: don't recognise one when you see it.
:: His use of the word "probably", which you underline as though it were
: something odd, simply adds to the accuracy of the whole statement.
:: -dlj.
::
:david.lloyd-jones at canrem.com
: * 1st 1.11 #3818 * "640k should be enough for anybody" - Bill Gates, 1981.
No dlj, not "something odd" but something "important as John originally said.
Such an distinction is important and prevents the fact from being "hard" : but
as you said net degradation.
