[meteorite-list] Mad Cow and Vaca Muerta
From: John Gwilliam <jkg_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:31:57 2004 Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.20040103135034.009d1940_at_mail.theriver.com> --=====================_8844073==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Still working on that $10.00 gallon of tequila from New Years, huh? John At 08:33 PM 1/3/04 +0000, Howard Wu wrote: >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 > >Taurus the Bull..(i.e.Too ashame to sign my name to this one.) > > >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 >> >> >> >>__________________________________ >>Do you Yahoo!? >>Find out what made the Top Yahoo! Searches of 2003 >>http://search.yahoo.com/top2003 >> >>______________________________________________ >>Meteorite-list mailing list >>Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com >>http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list >> >> >><http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/mail/tagline_messenger/*http://uk.messenger.yahoo. >>com>Yahoo! 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Perhaps why cows are sacred in India is they were once visited by cows from space millenia ago<br> <br> Taurus the Bull..(i.e.Too ashame to sign my name to this one.)<br> <br> <br> <b><i>Francis Graham <francisgraham_at_rocketmail.com></b></i> wrote:<blockquote> <dl> <dd>"We still had hamburgers for dinner that night," <dd>he said. "The odds of <dd>being hit by a meteorite are much greater than <dd>anyone in America dying <dd>of mad cow disease."<br> <br> <dd>Interestingly, there is some science behind the <dd>speculation that something like a prion protovirus may <dd>have been carried to the early Earth by a meteorite, <dd>since life on Earth seems to have developed within 400 <dd>Mya after cooling. But no one can be sure yet, since <dd>there are also models for a rapid RNA world that might <dd>work. <dd>Certainly the prion that causes mad cow was not <dd>brought by a meteorite though, since it is too <dd>host-specific. Unless there are cows in space. Now <dd>that would make interesting meteorites. :)<br> <br> <dd>Francis Graham<br> <br> <br> <br> <dd>__________________________________ <dd>Do you Yahoo!? <dd>Find out what made the Top Yahoo! Searches of 2003 <dd><a href="http://search.yahoo.com/top2003" eudora="autourl">http://search.yahoo.com/top2003</a><br> <br> <dd>______________________________________________ <dd>Meteorite-list mailing list <dd>Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com <dd><a href="http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list" eudora="autourl">http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list</a><br> <br> </dl><br> <font size=2><a href="http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/mail/tagline_messenger/*http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com">Yahoo! 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