Rich, after a few days of feild work Drew is looks "fury" too. Besides the
"KT" boundry is wht he found when he tried to hit on a girl named Katherine
in his Paleo Lab-EZ

----- Original Message -----
From: Rich Lesperance <richl@uf*.ed*>
To: Drew Glasbrenner <glasbrenner@mi*.co*>
Cc: Cave listserv <cavers@cavers.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 11:14 PM
Subject: Re: Continuous webbing x Quick Releases


> Drew,
>
>     As you alluded to, this is true with regards to speciation of living
> things - some form of isolation is required - temporal, geographic, even
> physiological.
>     The article errs in trying to apply this to information, since it is
> patently obvious that the explosion of new ideas and advances in sciences
in
> ALL fields of endeavor has occurred simultaneously with the relatively
> recent advances in communication.
>
>     Besides - I resent the "furry" thing <g>.
>
> Rich L
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Drew Glasbrenner <glasbrenner@mi*.co*>
> To: Chris Elmore <ElmoreC@gw*.sc*.ed*>
> Cc: Cave listserv <cavers@cavers.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 9:15 PM
> Subject: Re: Continuous webbing x Quick Releases
>
>
> > WARNING...possibly boring to non-thinking types
> >
> >
> > Chris Elmore wrote:
> > >     I am amazed how the internet has become an almost instantaneous
> global
> > peer review. This >is a good thing. Like a scientific journal, a new
> > standard ("paradigm" if you can stand hearing >that word just once more)
> can
> > be presented and debated. .
> >
> > While I fully agree with and practice the DIR system, this reminded me
of
> an
> > article I read claiming that the Internet, and improved communication in
> > general, would actually have a detrimental effect on development of new
> > ideas. The argument was along along the lines of that small isolated
> groups
> > tend to evolve faster, developing more varied approaches along different
> > lines of thought, resulting in a greater chance of one of the paths
> > surviving.
> >
> > Then again...maybe this is what we are seeing. Imagine us approaching
the
> > K-T boundary quickly, with TDI and IANTD being the big lumbering
> > brontosaurs, and DIR and GUE being the little furry mammals about to
> inherit
> > the planet. (Oh shit...Did I just call George a rat? Sorry.)
> >
> > Drew
> >
>

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