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To: blam
That's what I hate about digging holes; all the hair down there. ;-)

No, seriously . . . Why didn't the hair decompose? I could see it surviving in ice maybe, like the hair on a frozen woolly mammoth.

Just asking. Seems so unlikely to me.

5 posted on 07/14/2004 8:30:58 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker
Why didn't the hair decompose?

From the article: "The anaerobic bog has a neutral acidity level, which preserves otherwise perishable remains such as strands of human hair, Stenger said." Obviously, you didn't read to the end.

6 posted on 07/14/2004 8:35:01 PM PDT by John Valentine ("The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein)
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