I still have the "Save Mono Lake" license plate frame on my 1987 S10 Blazer 4x4, from when I was there last around 1990.

I always thought the Mono Lake Tufas looked alien.

an even better example is that all our ability to understand and manipulate in molecular genetics comes from what is called PCR -- and that came from a thermophilic bacterium out of a hot springs in Yellowstone National Park

if those hot pools had not been protected... no modern medical advances from mol. genetics

Rascals! I just read up on that - seems like their work was actually interpreting the X-ray fluorescence work down by others. This may go back to the time of rod of Asclepius - some say that the snake represents the helix.

MAN, what a waiste of time and money, let's see get a bunch of uber geeks together give them billions of dollars of funding and find out...wait for it....THINGS EVOLVE...

Who would've thunk it?

you are missing the point entirely

however, I do not think this is as fundamental as the DNA structure work

Dr. Franklin should have shared the prize, tho she would likely have not gotten the helix from her data w/o Watson & Crick