From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: sdlitvin@earthlink.net   
   Subject: Re: Man Trap Notes   
      
   "Karl Johanson"  wrote in message    
   news:S1W1n.3793$rH7.914@newsfe19.iad:   
      
   > "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 sodium chloride was going through these creatures unchanged, it could    
   hardly be their food.   
      
      
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