Re: Startling Clam Tales

I got a wonderful reply to a message of mine in e-mail. Thought I'd post it for y'all to see (I asked first, tho..)

To: IN%"maynard@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU" From: cuthulu@ns1.unicomp.net (cuthulu)

>wbarwell@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (William Barwell) writes:
>>When the clam was cast ashore, these spores were still alive in the
>>shell. The sun would kill the inner cells of the "barnacle" while the
>>outer cells still lived. The dead inner cells would forma gas which, under
>>the heat, would explode violently to the agony of the barnacle shell cells.
>Oh, just like real barnacles do, of course. Stand out on the rocks by the
>ocean some day, and you can hear the barnacles exploding. The clams, too.

Military Intelligence has confirmed the truth of the exploding bivalves. In fact, dedicated researchers are hard at work in secret labs developing mutant strains of the legendary giant clam for use in naval warfare. They're upping the explosive force of the sun-shell reaction to an order of magnitude able to penetrate the reinforced armor of today's ships and boats of war. So far, they've achieved the power of one stick of dynamite from three claims chained together, but recent breakthroughs indicate a 1-kiloton reaction may be possible from a clam on the halfshell within the next 10 years. The harbor mining potential is obvious once a controllled triggering mechanism is developed. The next war at sea will be fought with clams.

---------

Yeah. Right.

As this points out-- I wonder if Hubbard-ites ever stop to see whether what they are reading has *anything* at all do do with the world around them. Clams don't explode. Barnacles don't explode. If you go to the beach, and you don't see barnacles exploding, then why would you ever believe another word of this tripe?

Scientology sure isn't science.

--Tom Maynard (maynard@oregon.uoregon.edu) "We were poor, but we didn't know we were poor... We thought we were starving to death!"