Curtis Clark's 15 minutes of fame ;-)

[Doug Yanega]

So, am I the only one here who saw fellow listmember Curtis Clark on
the Discover Channel this weekend (a show called "Alien Planet" about
a fictitious robotic expedition to a distant earth-like world with
organic liifeforms)? I'm one of the few people in existence who owns
a copy of the 1990 book the program was based on, as well (it wasn't
exactly a best seller) - the only reason I tuned in, actually. My
only gripe: none of the scientists interviewed expressed how utterly
improbable it is that a world with organic life would have no
evolutionary equivalents of insects, arachnids, or other
macroinvertebrates - just plants, microbes, and vertebrates
(virtually all of the latter either herbivorous or predatory on other
vertebrates). Pretty odd, no?

Anyway, good job, Curtis!
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Doug Yanega        Dept. of Entomology         Entomology Research Museum
Univ. of California - Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521-0314
phone: (951) 827-4315 (standard disclaimer: opinions are mine, not UCR's)
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