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Like all animals earthworms have effective strategies for begetting their own kind. With earthworms it is not a matter of boy meets girl, but rather a simpler matter of worm meets worm. All worms carry two sets of sexual organs, but they cannot fertilize their own eggs�mating is still a necessary part of reproduction. Mature earthworms have an enlarged band some distance from the head. This enlarged clitellum plays an important role in reproduction.
In mating, two worms approach each other nose to nose. With their bodies touching, they slide past each other until their heads are a bit past the clitellum. Both worms pass sperm through an opening located between the head and the clitellum, into a temporary holding receptacle in the other worm. The two worms separate. The clitellum secretes a liquid that solidifies into a flexible tube. As the tube lengthens, the worm backs out of it. Soon the tube covers the front part of the worm. The worm lays a few eggs inside the tube, deposits some of the stored sperm, and withdraws from the tube, leaving the eggs and sperm inside the tube. The ends of the tube pinch off to form a cocoon, and the whole thing shrinks to a tidy package about the size of a fat grain of rice. The cocoon is left alone sitting on or just under the surface of the soil. The worm continues to produce cocoons until the sperm is used up. Cocoons are durable, can overwinter in cold climates, and can wait out hot dry spells in arid environments. After 3 weeks (ideal conditions) or longer the cocoon opens, and out sallies the next generation.
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Originally posted by Maulin Vasavada:
2. one who writes patches for those worms
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Originally posted by Cindy Glass:
Geez :roll: , and I thought that you were talking about sex .
From http://lhsfoss.org/fossweb/teachers/materials/plantanimal/earthworms.html
"This enlarged clitellum plays an important role in reproduction."
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction. - Ernst F. Schumacher
Originally posted by Cindy Glass:
and I thought that you were talking about sex .
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Originally posted by Gregg Bolinger:
Ashok Krishnan
If you want to learn about such things, I would suggest a different site all together. I thought that with the humerous babble thus far, you might have gotten the hint.
Originally posted by Tim Allen:
Ashkok, I have an excellent site that explains what to install on a computer to make it entirely unreliable and useless:
http://www.microsoft.com
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Originally posted by Tim Allen:
Here is the troubling question: Did we respond to Ashkok's request this way because he was named "Ashok Krishnan", which does not appear to be an Western name? Would we have responded more positively if the asker had been named "John Hammonds" and had been known to us to be a 47 year old systems administrator from Pittsburgh?
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Originally posted by Ashok Krishnan:
No one, except a few like Micheal Morris, who knew their stuff contributed their knowledge in the subject, with out being paranoid about me writing a virus and then planning to taking over the world - because he/they knew thats not how things work!
Oh, and I didn't think Cindy was warning me about it when she posted that link!
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Originally posted by Tim Allen:
As I walked to work this morning, I had a troubling (and probably controversial) thought:
We responded to Ashok's request for information on how worms were written with humor, and in some cases with gentle but firm warnings that implied that he should not pursue this. There were only a few direct responses. There was an unwritten message: we thought Ashkok was going to use the answers to his question to write destructive worms and launch them maliciously, and we didn't want to be his accomplices.
Here is the troubling question: Did we respond to Ashkok's request this way because he was named "Ashok Krishnan", which does not appear to be an Western name? Would we have responded more positively if the asker had been named "John Hammonds" and had been known to us to be a 47 year old systems administrator from Pittsburgh?
It seems that our profile (remember when "profiling" became a buzzword for police-brutality?) for destructive crackers has changed. Before they were 13 year old bored white American (or maybe German) kids with modems. Now the profile is that they are easterners, perhaps motivated by either terrorist or corporate interests.
Am I totally out of line here, or were we being, well, racist?
I know this is inflammatory: it's been inflaming my head all morning. I don't want to cause trouble, but I am interested in peoples' responses to this. Thanks in advance. -tim
Originally posted by R K Singh:
How come it is said that linux cant have virus.
One can always write a program to be loaded in memory at startup for linux also.
Any linux guru here ??
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How come it is said that linux cant have virus.
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Originally posted by Tim Allen:
As I walked to work this morning, I had a troubling (and probably controversial) thought:
Here is the troubling question: Did we respond to Ashkok's request this way because he was named "Ashok Krishnan", which does not appear to be an Western name? Would we have responded more positively if the asker had been named "John Hammonds" and had been known to us to be a 47 year old systems administrator from Pittsburgh?
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Am I totally out of line here, or were we being, well, racist?
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Originally posted by Tim Allen:
Am I totally out of line here, or were we being, well, racist?
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