From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: karljohanson@shaw.ca   
   Subject: Re: Man Trap Notes   
      
   "Steven L."  wrote \   
      
   > I'm assuming that once this planet was full of salt    
   > outcroppings--thousands of tons of it, from seas that dried up and left    
   > the deserts you saw.  But these creatures may have eaten it all up. (Salt    
   > is not a renewable resource unless you have lots of energy to electrolyze    
   > more.)   
      
   Sodium chloride goes through us and comes out as Sodium chloride. You'd need    
   to chemically separate it. Easy to do with 20th century tech, probably 19th    
   century tech.   
      
   If the NaClVamp was excreting bricks of metallic Sodium, it would be easy to    
   recombine it with Chlorine.   
      
   Karl Johanson    
      
      
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