From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: karljohanson@shaw.ca   
   Subject: Re: Man Trap Notes   
      
   "Steven L."  wrote in message    
   news:T9WdnZgk4PNys9TWnZ2dnUVZ_smdnZ2d@earthlink.com...   
   > "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.   
      
   Water goes through us unchanged, yet we die without it.   
      
   Karl Johanson    
      
      
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