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Thought at one point smiffy was gonna give me the mike 'cos he was standing inches away and holding the mike right in my face, but it was thankfully just an accident of his stance.

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I was very near to smiffy at this point so I bellowed '... so what happened at empire then, mark?'.

FallNews 1997

Also present, at a table 10 feet away - smiffy and julia.

FallNews 1997

So they launch into hurricane, and half way through smiffy does the usual stuff - trying to hack at Tommy's guitar strings and fiddle with his knobs.

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Daniel/Chris 'friend (rather cute blond lass with pretty impressive tattoos) jumped on stage and did a spot of hippy-jiving, smiffy was amused.

FallNews 1997

And natural selection perhaps can favor totally different traits in such hosts. flag smiffy - Apr 04,

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Rank: not rated yet rate smiffy: I understand your point about extinction-events, but I guess it would be more unlikely that most organisms survived them (e.g. massive meteorite impacts) but then only few species would be destroyed completely.

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Well, smiffy, I guess the point was that there are only few hosts left after a near-extinction event, and when the survivors start to recolonize the habitat there would be only few different types of viruses to infect them.

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These (perhaps) ancient viruses may therefore be somehow related to this chain of events that led to the origin of the first cell. flag smiffy - Apr 05,

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Whatever the outcome it seems clear that intensive study of extremophiles can contribute both to biology here and exobiology. flag smiffy - Apr 04,

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