[meteorite-list] Mad Cow and Vaca Muerta

From: Howard Wu <freewu2000_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:31:57 2004
Message-ID: <20040103203318.81384.qmail_at_web60003.mail.yahoo.com>

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Prions are supposedly heat resistant and carry no genetic material. Then there is the question of how a prion would get into a cows brain. Only possible way I can think of is a direct impact to the skull by a micro fragment. Vaca Muerta comes to mind though any fall out in the range only witnessed by cows could be the culprit. And maybe the tale of the cow jumping over the moon is a oral record of space cows observed by aboriginals. Perhaps why cows are sacred in India is they were once visited by cows from space millenia ago
 
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Francis Graham <francisgraham_at_rocketmail.com> wrote:
"We still had hamburgers for dinner that night,"
he said. "The odds of
being hit by a meteorite are much greater than
anyone in America dying
of mad cow disease."

Interestingly, there is some science behind the
speculation that something like a prion protovirus may
have been carried to the early Earth by a meteorite,
since life on Earth seems to have developed within 400
Mya after cooling. But no one can be sure yet, since
there are also models for a rapid RNA world that might
work.
Certainly the prion that causes mad cow was not
brought by a meteorite though, since it is too
host-specific. Unless there are cows in space. Now
that would make interesting meteorites. :)

Francis Graham


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<DIV>Prions are supposedly heat resistant and carry no genetic material. Then there is the question of how a prion would get into a cows brain. Only possible way I can think of is a direct impact to the skull by a micro fragment. Vaca Muerta comes to mind though any fall out in the range only witnessed by cows could be the culprit. And maybe the tale of the cow jumping over the moon is a&nbsp;oral record of space cows observed by&nbsp;aboriginals. Perhaps why cows are sacred in India is they were once visited by cows from space millenia ago</DIV>
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<DIV>Taurus the Bull..(i.e.Too ashame to sign my name to this one.)</DIV>
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<DIV><BR><B><I>Francis Graham &lt;francisgraham_at_rocketmail.com&gt;</I></B> wrote:</DIV>
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