[meteorite-list] Sometimes "however" is better than "but"...

From: Matson, Robert <ROBERT.D.MATSON_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:06:14 2004
Message-ID: <AF564D2B9D91D411B9FE00508BF1C86901B4E4E2_at_US-Torrance.mail.saic.com>

Hi Ron and List,

Couldn't resist poking a little fun at the wording in the post
from New Scientist (the "snicker/wink-wink" science magazine).
I wonder if anyone else did a double-take on this paragraph:

"Such huge impacts are extremely rare - so rare in fact that scientists
would not expect to find any Martian rocks on Earth at all. But Head
and his colleagues say they have now resolved these contradictions. The
availability of greater computing power allowed them to simulate impacts
on Mars on a far finer scale than before, making them more physically
realistic."

I have visions of Beavis and But(t)head throwing Play-Doh at
a red beach ball to simulate Martian impacts...<huh-huh ... cool>

;-) --Rob
Received on Fri 08 Nov 2002 01:34:18 AM PST