[Rockhounds] Why are we still living in the Iron Age???!

[Al Balmer]

On Wed, 28 May 2008 21:15:59 -0400, Dennis Buffenmyer <buff1 at ptd.net>
wrote:

>the future seems very bleak indeed, but, perhaps the idea of natural 
>selection comes into play even here... if there WERE a better way to do 
>it.... it would become the dominant way to do it.... must be that the 
>age old method has stood the test... and I'm not even a conservative or 
>pessimist...

Yup. Makes me think of all the late-night TV gardening products that
turn out to be poor substitutes for a hoe. Used in Mesopotamia 6 or 7
thousand years ago.

-- 
Al Balmer
Sun City, AZ