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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: CYBERMIND@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
Subject: Re: MM's musing du jour
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 13:13:33 -0400
Azure and I almost died braking for a large turtle here on a major road - we were waving traffic to a stop, lots of screeching. But we got the turtle off the road safely; a woman took it in her car to a save refuge (it was about a foot and a half in length). Alan On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Maurizio Mariotti wrote: > I always break for turtles, but I also thought about Darwin and that > whole "cull out the weak" thing. But then I thought that I might be > responsible for a future that includes super-intelligent turtles and > kept on breaking. Also, large turtles may seriously damage the > undercarriage of my car. > Internet text at http://www.anu.edu.au/english/internet_txt Partial at http://lists.village.virginia.edu/~spoons/internet_txt.html Trace Projects at http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/sondheim/index.htm CDROM of collected work 1994-2000/1 available: write sondheim@panix.com