Happy, now?

By the way, how you can look at that website and come up
with "extracting" uranium is beyond me. The point of the
exercise is to microbially reduce and immobilise soluble U(VI)
to insoluble U(IV). Bioremediation of radionuclides, Ian...not
mining.

Deirdre


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Ian,*

I thank you for your concern wrt to identity theft...I assure
you my identity has not been stolen. *To that*end, I will be*
happy to repost this email..both your original missive and*
my reply...on the thread*in question from*my personal email*
account in order to allay your concerns.

While I appreciate your interest in me, I would like to*state*
that I draw a line between my*USENET postings*and my*
professional life...I would be grateful if, in future,*you make*
an effort not to cross it again. *

Thank you.

Deirdre Sholto-Douglas
Molecular Environmental Science Group
Biosciences Division
Argonne National Laboratory



On Feb 24, 2009, at 11:04 AM, Ian Parker wrote:
I am writing to you about a possible case of identity theft.

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/sci...536dc510ffc4c0

I would first of all like to ask you whether you are the Deirdre
Sholto Douglas who is posing in this thread. I do not believe for
one moment that you are. I think you ought to know though that
your name is being used in this way. What action you take is,
of course, up to you. I think though your good name should be
important to you.

I feel too I should tell you where I am coming from. I am a retired
mathematician with a strong interest in Artificial Intelligence. I
have always felt that the future of the space program lies in
unmanned exploration and in improving the quality of AI. This
was howled down by various people in sci.space.policy. As well
as attacking my theories they made a lot of personal remarks
about me.

Recently NASA has in fact endorsed this position. NASA (along
with Google) has teamed up with Kurtzwel in the shape of the
"Singularity University". This in fact offers a whole range of
technologies, focussed on AI, but also including such things as
nanotech.

I have looked at your website. One thing hit me in the eye. Uranium
and its biological extraction. I would like to ask you another question
-
"What about Platinum?" Would it be possible, in your view, to extract
Platinum biologically? This is one of the things which I think the new
NASA brass are after. When the dinosaurs became extinct a layer
of Iridium was deposited and asteroids are rich (in comparison with
the Earth's crust) in platinoids.

This by the way is one of the reasons why it can't be you. You I am
sure would have mentioned the work on Uranium.
*
* - Ian Parker