Typee, incidentally

Jeff Wilson · 14 Nov 2010, 04:43 · from 2010-November.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 22:43:56 -0600
Subject: (urth) Typee, incidentally
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On 11/13/2010 9:53 PM, David Stockhoff wrote:
> Never read that---can you describe it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Patches

A new planet features a super-organism whose individual bodies all use 
patches of green fur to see, even the germs. In short order, the colony 
livestock begins to parthenogenically produce  young, also with green 
fur instead of eyes. When the women colonists all turn up pregnant, the 
colony ship captain sends a warning back to earth before 
self-destructing the engines to sterilize the colony site. A research 
mission follows.

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >

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