>Mainz,  August 24,  2000.
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>Press release--Oxygen-17 rejoins the table of the isotopes--
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>The otherwise so stable isotope community was in a state of turmoil by
>Oxygen-17's unexpected move back into the table of the isotopes. "I regret
>my intemperance over the last decades, but one must understand that my
>celestial position, achieved by Clayton's discovery of my subtle anomaly in
>meteorites, was crashed down suddenly by one single scientific paper. "I
>simply could not bear the down to earth, …or atmosphere, fact that any
>college kid could increase my abundance disproportionate to my exact mass
>difference with brother 18O, by blasting sparks through oxygen" After a
>small interruption, Oxygen-17 continued saying "with Mark Thiemens'
>experiment I felt I had lost all significance I had" "I was not a
>nucleosynthetic factor anymore".

        This oxygen-17 has delusions of grandeur. It is big brother 16O who
causes the anomalies!
                                                Bob Clayton