12-28-2011, 02:49 PM
Well said, Lin W and Mark P.
Regarding "You are much more likely to catch a disease from a live person than a dead one" -this brings to mind two thoughts.
Long ago as a Freshman biology student I had a wonderful parasitology professor who had us all scrape between our teeth with toothpicks and count the number of species of amoebae found resident in our mouths. We then, as a group, graphed the number of species versus our year in college. Talk about a steep J curve!
Pleasant as it may have been to acquire new species of commensal amoebae during university, later on while in Southeast Asia I first made the direct acquaintance of dead bodies -not so pleasantly. The stench of decomposition is beyond accurate description; compound this with standing surface water and there is a very real epidemiological as well as aesthetic concern. I have since seen sky burials in the Himalayas, pyres burning alongside rivers, as well as green burials under big trees and all these were fine ...but dead bodies plus surface water equals a massive disease hazard. Happily, in this regard, there is not much risk of standing surface waters in the young rocky strata of Puna!
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MSP's wingsuit segment from "Seven Sunny Days"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0tU3Hy7et8&feature=related
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Regarding "You are much more likely to catch a disease from a live person than a dead one" -this brings to mind two thoughts.
Long ago as a Freshman biology student I had a wonderful parasitology professor who had us all scrape between our teeth with toothpicks and count the number of species of amoebae found resident in our mouths. We then, as a group, graphed the number of species versus our year in college. Talk about a steep J curve!
Pleasant as it may have been to acquire new species of commensal amoebae during university, later on while in Southeast Asia I first made the direct acquaintance of dead bodies -not so pleasantly. The stench of decomposition is beyond accurate description; compound this with standing surface water and there is a very real epidemiological as well as aesthetic concern. I have since seen sky burials in the Himalayas, pyres burning alongside rivers, as well as green burials under big trees and all these were fine ...but dead bodies plus surface water equals a massive disease hazard. Happily, in this regard, there is not much risk of standing surface waters in the young rocky strata of Puna!
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MSP's wingsuit segment from "Seven Sunny Days"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0tU3Hy7et8&feature=related
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Astonishing skill! This archer is a real-life Legolas and then some!
http://geekologie.com/2013/11/real-life-...rs-anc.php
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Astonishing skill! This archer is a real-life Legolas and then some!
http://geekologie.com/2013/11/real-life-...rs-anc.php
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