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- From: grover@emunix.emich.edu (Grover Thomas)
- Subject: My Hair, my hair (was Re: BLAST PROCESSING -- SHUT UP!)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.201958.3093@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
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- Organization: Eastern Michigan University
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:19:58 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.181428.4017@clark.edu> gsnow@clark.edu (Gary Snow) writes:
- >
- >Ok then, just for my curiosity, what makes it grow. Its made out of proteins
- >and pigments (living cells). Whoever it was that EMailed me and said something
- >to the effect that "if it was alive, it would hurt when you cut it"....I
- >answer back that hair doesn't have nerve endings, so of course you wouldn't
- >feel it. Anyway, is it live or is it mem...(oops) I mean dead :-) I am
- >curious, I would really like to know.
-
- Hair has a few growing cells at the root, but the stuff you actually look
- at and comb each day is just dead tissue (mostly proteins, keratin I think).
-
- Since this is a video game newsgroup: How many of you have pulled your hair
- out playing a particularly difficult game? :-)
- For me I think it would be the LoLo games (where you have to figure out
- how to solve each level).
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