Lemme get this straight. Astronomers get an NSF grant to build a
satellite. They launch it. THEN they apply for a grant to buy the
antenna needed to recieve the satellite data? :-)
So now I can guess what happened to the Mars Observer! (Though secretly I
think Earth First! was successful in training thier commando squirrel squad!)
Sorry about this recherchiness... We now return to the scheduled program...
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>Sometimes in my very wettest pots I get a firm, gelatinous, semitransparent
>glop that develops. This starts as a thin coating and can build into
>a layer several mm thick. It chokes all growth underneath it. What is this
>stuff? I hear people call it slime mould, yet it has never transformed
>into the mobile plasmodium form, nor has it fruited or done other
>slime mould type things. It is not a mycelial type of mould. Is it
>algae? Or, perhaps, is it ectoplasm from beyond the tenuous veils that
>separate our corporeal dimensions from the mind-blasting vistas that
>lurk just beyond our grasp---ready to leak into our senses and send
>us reeling into insanity? Should I use fungicide?
>
I have slapped some of this glob under a microscope. The stuff is a mat of
filamentous green algae.
-Michael
>Barzai