|
Friday, June 9, 2000 02:42 p.m. P.D.T. SkeptiNews 000609c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To
Question
* Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/08_06_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, praises, discoveries: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No chickens were inhumanely caught by robots to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Head Out On The Highway: http://www.icontech.com/~lorinac/index.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 'MARTIANS' ARAB HEIRS FIGHT NASA OVER PATHFINDER SPACECRAFT. Yemeni Men File Lawsuit Against NASA 'To Prevent It Revealing Any More Details About Conditions On Mars." It's our planet and keep your damn spacecraft away! http://reagan.com/HotTopics.main/HotMike/document-7.25.1997.0.html @ MARS ANOMALIES: http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.com/mars_anomalies.html $ THE MONKEY AND THE TETRAHEDRON: COMPELLING CONNECTIONS BETWEEN MARS, THE UFO DILEMMA AND THE FUTURE OF THE HUMAN RACE. Yet another thorny quandary? http://shop.affinia.com/v2o/Store1/ProductInformation/95860402264329/4192671 @ The Mars Records: http://themarsrecords.com/Preface/preface.html # Bad places in space - The hot and violent parts of the cosmos - oboy! http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_782000/782511.stm : Do you claim a proprietary interest over any cosmic/cosmological entities? Do outsiders horn in on your planet(oid)? Do they ruin the neighborhood? Was it a bad neighborhood to begin with?Does it qualify for urban renewal funds? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Why did the human brain evolve beyond its pleistocene needs into a weeping, Wagner-loving, high art idolater? Manipulated by Reptilioids: www.booksonline.co.uk/booksol?ac=002741838810002&pg=/00/4/29/bomat29.html # More: www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/04/26/timfeasci02002.html # THE MATHS GENE argues that the same features of the brain which enable us to use language also make for our talent with numbers. R U innumerate? http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/04/26/timfeafea02001.html @ FIBONACCI etc: http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/ # Human beings share 98 percent of their genes with chimps. So what? For a skydiver who's fallen only two percent of his way to the earth, there's no turning back. http://www.feedmag.com/feature/fr335lofi.html @ What Is Transhumanism? http://www.hedweb.com/nickb/transhumanism.htm : Has your genus/species/brain evolved much lately? It evolution tiring? Is it worth the effort? Would you rather evolve on your own; be created/molded by deities/demons/aliens/angels/robots/me; move into a different realm? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Church encourages faith healing - People urged to believe in the healing power of prayer.(BBC) Anglican clergy are to take on a faith healing role. The Church of England is issuing its first report in 40 years on the min- istry of healing. While it warns that the topic must be approached with caution, it also encourage every parish church in the country to adopt the practice. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_782000/782299.stm # Also: 'Healing power of prayer revealed' - HMOs pray for cost-cuts: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_485000/485268.stm # Prayer 'works as a cure' - especially when used with antibiotics: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_778000/778564.stm : Have your deities healed you lately? If you don't pray just right, do you die? Do you die anyway? Do you deities sometimes just kill people for fun? Have you tried praying to different deities? Which are most effective? Why? # Black magic woman? UAE woman gets four months in jail for casting a spell. http://salon.com/travel/planet/2000/06/07/magic/index.html?CP=MOR&DN=310 # 'Dead' Malawian woman speaks - disrupts her own funeral - hymns stopped: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_774000/774761.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Feds Find No Conspiracy in King Case - but how hard did they look? (AP) - Rejecting a series of conspiracy allegations, an 18-month Justice Dept probe found no credible evidence that anyone but James Earl Ray killed civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.It recommended no further inves- tigation. http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000609/14/news-king-assassination # Congress Urged to Outlaw Genetic Discrimination http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000607/sc/genes_dc_1.html # FBI PROBES NEW HACKER ATTACK REPORTED BY SECURITY COMPANY. http://CNN.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/09/hacker.attack.02/index.html @ They're watching: http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.com/intelligence.html # Senator Seeks .Sex -- Senator Joseph Lieberman wants to segregate Internet bawdiness. He told the Commission on Child Online Protection that he wants to see ..xxx or .sex domains. And maybe .art if there's no prurience? http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,36867,00.html?tw=wn20000609 : What's your favorite federal conspiracy? Do you believe anything any govt says about conspiracies, hackers, sex, nutrition, me? Have you covered-up a govt conspiracy lately? Were you richly rewarded by your Illuminati masters? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiBriefs: # We are merely guests on this planet, living at the indulgence of the maggots, flies, beetles, and cockroaches who will outlive us. Take care. http://www.linguafranca.com/br/0004/rakoff.html @ Designer Weapons For Women: http://web.tiscalinet.it/ladiesweapons/ @ Reverse Your Geopaths: http://members.xoom.com/mr_theremin/geop~2.htm @ God Loves Diversity: http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge68.html @ WEIRD RESEARCH - ANOMALOUS PHYSICS: http://eskimo.com/~billb/weird.html # Breakthrough in Cloning? Researchers are claiming a breakthrough for the meat industry. They've cloned a 2nd calf from the same group of developed cells. Mayzi the calf has joined her genetically identical older sister, Suzi, in the same process used to create the world's first cloned animal, Dolly the sheep. The process could give the dairy & beef industries a huge genetic boost. www.abc.net.au/news/newslink/weekly/newsnat-6jun2000-56.htm # Firm has chicken-catching machine - humans protest - ETs gloat: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567194433-3ee @ < via HypCube4D@aol.com > TerraGenesis: The source for home-made Wargaming Terrain: http://www.players-society.com/terragenesis/ @ Optical Tachyons in Parametric Amplifiers: How Fast Can Quantum Informa- tion Travel? We show that optical tachyonic dispersion corresponding to superluminal (faster than-light) group velocities characterizes para- metrically amplifying media. http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9805040 # Six Ancient Cities Discovered. It's been a really great week for explorers searching for cities long lost in ancient ruins. Three teams reported sig- nificant finds from Egypt to Peru - each unusual for the breadth of their artifacts and structures. http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal060801.html @ Too busy slaving away at your dot com job to attend your father's 50th birthday party? No problem. Now you can clone yourself (almost) with Rent- A-Relative. <http://rent-a-relative.com/> Better check their fee schedule <http://www.rent-a-relative.com/cost.html> first. Dysfunctional family is a $25 surcharge. Doing biz: http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Commerce/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Sister Mary Agnes coughed, spit a gobbet of blood, and tossed the severed goat's udder over the rim of the canyon." --Charles F. Mason, PhD * Rev.R.Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.pitas.com * FAX: 603-415-3736 * SkeptiNews bulletins now *ONLINE* at: http://skeptinews.pitas.com/ * Fringes of Thought, Experience, Behavior, Knowledge, Foreboding...
Friday, June 9, 2000 11:46 a.m. P.D.T. SkeptiNews 000609b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To
Question
* Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/08_06_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, praises, discoveries: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No Chupracabras were inhumanely interrogated to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $ Galactic Calendar For The Year 9 EB: http://www.paoweb.com/galcalad.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # UFO Classical Music Concert Based On Roswell. -- On 22 June at the Royal Festival Hall in London, a celebrated gala concert will debut a new clas- sical music piece that aims to recreate a UFO close encounter! It is par- tly inspired by the Roswell case and will feature a soloist performing on 8 unidentified pieces of metal to recreate the image of a 'finely tuned alien aircraft' http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m09-005.shtml # Chileans: US Took Custody Of Captured Chupacabras. 3 creatures - a male, a female & a child - were held by Chilean troops at the regiment's barracks for several hours. Then a NASA team reportedly arrived by helicopter to take custody of them. Why? http://www.sightings.com/general2/chupacao.htm : Have paranormalities impinged on your culture lately? Or has your culture mucked with paranormalities? Would you rather be apprehended/entertained by chupracabras/troops/concerts/deities/demons/me? How alien is your music? Eh? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # "Mirror Neurons" - Does the brain's innate capacity for mimicry explain the "great leap forward" of human evolution? The discovery of the biolo- gical basis for imitation may be the decade's most under-reported science story. Coverup? http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es346_master.html?alert # Growing better chips.The same trick an oyster uses to make mother-of-pearl may ultimately enable researchers to ``grow'' ultra-mini computer chips. http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/083423.htm # TELEPATHY CHIP: http://strangemag.com/anomalypages.html#telepathychip # MICRO-CHIP IMPLANTS NOW BEING TESTED - INTELLI-CONNECTION/IBM 2020 NEURAL CHIP IMPLANT: http://www.newsmakingnews.com/micro6,8,00.htm # THE AMAZING STORY OF SHOO - Is He Able To Transmit ULF Signals Mentally? http://www.elfrad.org/shoo/research.html : How well does your brain work? Would it work better with implanted chips? Would you rather have chips implanted/grown/teleported into your brain? Do you radiate/broadcast/transmit? On what frequencies? Is anyone listening? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Tourist finds ancient Egypt art.AIN SOKHNA ROAD, Egypt (AP) Archaeologists aren't exaggerating when they say ancient treasures abound in the sands of Egypt. So many that even a tourist from Iowa, out on a desert outing, can make a notable discovery: cave drawings that could date back thousands of years before the birth of Christ. Just looking for sea urchins, he claims: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567168588-146 @ Message from Cochise, thru Lyara, channel, Arizona: "I am Cochise. I have waited for a long time to come back to serve the Earth... I am working now with the Intergalactic Fleet as well as aboard the mothership 'Dove' (head- quarter of Sananda)." Of course: http://channeling.net/LyurAC/starnatUS.htm @ Pictures of Star Beings: http://channeling.net/LyurAC/AmassiaPicsUS.htm : What ancient/alien/accidental information have you uncovered lately? D'ya stay in touch with Egyptians/Apaches/Reptoids of bygone days? Are they sexy? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Stonehenge execution revealed. (BBC) An ancient skeleton excavated from Stonehenge has revealed a grisly execution at the famous site. Shocking! http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_784000/784348.stm # Also - Stonehenge face mystery - and it's not Regis Philbin: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_474000/474977.stm # Woodhenge discovered near Stonehenge - Kelphenge found offshore: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_434000/434821.stm # SACRED GEOMETRY: http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.com/geometry.html # Strange Block & Rectangular Object On Surface of Eros - megaliths on Jovian moon? Built by whom? Why? http://near.jhuapl.edu/iod/20000503 # LOCKERIDGE - UK - CROP FORMATION - The Same Metrology Units Used By The Designers Of The Giza Pyramid, Stonehenge and Silbury Hill. http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.com/geometry.html#lockeridge : D'ya perform executions/fornications/implantations/revelations/taxations at your sacred sites/shrines/megaliths? Is the geometry of your sacred site significant/unearthly/impossible/maddening? Do mad gods need geometry? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ You thought you'd seen it all when it came to bizarre Net-based fetishes. <http://bachelorguy.com/bellybuilders/> Then again, you've probably never heard of Macrophilia, <http://macrophile.com/> the sexual desire to become http://macrophile.com/~cougr/macrofur/Images/PrimeMeridian.GIF or roleplay a giant, and do <http://macrophile.com/~cougr/macrofur/Images/Bus_Cum.GIF> very very very very very naughty things to little people or buildings. http://www.macrophile.com/~cougr/macrofur/Images/BigLyon_Stomp.GIF http://www.macrophile.com/~cougr/macrofur/Images/Dre_Cock_Bash.GIF Or <http://macrophile.com/~cougr/macrofur/Images/Hand_Toy.GIF> vice-versa. Often mixed with Furry, <http://www.fur.com/> the omnipresent Net alterna- sexuality where folks roleplay <http://fur.com/~frank/matlun.jpg> anthro- pomorphic animals. Not always <http://www.fur.com/~frank/orgy4.JPG> sexual in nature -- in fact, the <http://members.tripod.com/~burnedfur/> Burned Furs are a splinter subgroup claiming that "Anthropomorphics fandom is being overrun by sexually dysfunctional, socially stunted and creatively bankrupt hacks and pervs". Riiight. Just don't mention zoophilia 'round http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/lyndale/lotcaf/yiffle/sexuality/zoophilia/ these folks. Pant heavily at http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Sex/ : D'ya prefer sex with humans/aliens/animals/demons/gods/robots/me/nobody? Do you have real/virtual/electronic/spiritual fur implants? D'ya do terrible /nice/bizarre/unmentionable things to other entities? Do they respond? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # HIV began in 1930s Africa. WASHINGTON (AP) - AIDS evolved from a benign simian infection into a human-killer in the early 1930s, long before it was recognized as a disease, but it stayed in remote Africa until jet travel, big cities and the sexual revolution spread it worldwide, a new study suggests. www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567195795-a0a And see http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_783000/783533.stm # Circumcision cuts HIV risk. (BBC) Uncircumcised men are at greater risk of HIV infection from heterosexual sex than circumcised men, say researchers. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_782000/782656.stm # Also - Straight sex HIV cases rise: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_621000/621142.stm # Body 'conned into fighting HIV' http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_743000/743345.stm # Rabies used for HIV vaccine: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_667000/667971.stm : Have you promulgated any pandemics lately? Should all humans engage only in cybersex, to avoid infection? What's your favorite teledildonic device?? Would you rather have AIDS,rabies, madcow,Ebola, anthrax, ultraconservatism? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Love hath no physic for a grief too deep." --Robert Nathan * Rev.R.Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.pitas.com * FAX: 603-415-3736 * SkeptiNews bulletins now *ONLINE* at: http://skeptinews.pitas.com/ * Fringes of Thought, Experience, Behavior, Knowledge, Foreboding...
Friday, June 9, 2000 08:45 a.m. P.D.T. SkeptiNews 000609a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To
Question
* Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/08_06_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, praises, discoveries: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No planetoids were crashed together to produce this bulletin. Next week... _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Hyperdimensional Resonator: http://www.futurehorizons.net/time2.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Computers will disturb heat balance of universe. Molecular computation may eventually threaten a cosmic meltdown, thinks Sun co-founder John Gage. He wasn't being frivolous: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/11268.html ; Oh my god!!! Aliens doens´t want to invade us, they can just fire up Quake 3 Interdimensional & fry our universe.!! <gerardo.arceri@informationsys.com> # Rising temps forecast changes. (AP) - Alpine meadows will disappear, along with many coastal wetlands and barrier islands. Cities will be hotter and more humid. Ski runs will be scarcer, the demand for air conditioners will increase and scientists will have to combat a likely resurgence in insect- borne diseases such as malaria. This is the weather forecast for the late 21st century. http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567195585-d8b : Would you rather meltdown your neighborhood, planet, solar system, galaxy, universe? Should molecular/fermionic computation be regulated? Is your heat balance at risk? Should you stop thinking, cool down, get a grip? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Animal-like robots could explore planets. GREENBELT, Maryland -- If the visionaries of today have their way tomorrow, NASA planners in the future could unleash an odd-looking menagerie of robots to explore planets and space in ways that humans never will. Researchers envision things like 3- foot- (1-meter-) long dragonfly-like robots to buzz high above Mars, mech- anical eels and seahorses to swim deep beneath the ice on Jupiter's moon Europa or "self-transforming" plastic explorers that can morph themselves into different shapes -- like the fearsome T-1000 in the movie Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Yowzah: http://www.alienzoo.com/news/a/200006080009.cfm : Do robots/aliens/deities/demons already have free run of the solar system? Can OUR robots beat THEIR robots? Would you like to be a robot, explore/run the solar system, buzz planetoids, have robo-sex with cars/phones/ETs/me?? # Eel-brain successfully implanted in robot body - cyborgs coming - get in line for implantation: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news_224233.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # EARTH RITES. (AP) Think of the phrase "Forces of Change" and what comes to mind? A volcano? Erosion? A glacier? They're all present, but a new Smith- sonian exhibition also makes clear that people are also forces that change the Earth. "Ritual Earth," 1/3 of the new photo exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History, "looks at the way people project their own con- cerns on nature." One picture,made in 1913, shows a ritual dance by Native Americans. Nearby is a 1988 photo of aboriginal art in Australia's Kakadu National Park. There are photos of a Hindu religious festival in India, stilt dancers in Mali & the ancient Callanish Standing Stones on Britain's Isle of Lewis. http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567193187-5cb : What's your favorite Earth ritual? Have you changed Earth with your rites? Has Earth changed you? D'ya invoke terrestrial/cosmic/universal powers very often? Is it tiring? Do fertility rites take all your time/energy/juice? Eh? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 'Gold Derivative Banking Crisis' Doc Races Around World. "It ought to be quite the summer for gold!" The "Gold Derivative Banking Crisis" document is being distributed around the world at a furious pace and it is going to the highest levels of the banking world. One of the most prominent bankers in Europe has ALREADY received 4 copies and "the document" was only made public 5 days ago. http://www.sightings.com/general2/gold.htm # OFF WITH THEIR RIGHTS! A bill passing quietly through the House of Lords may mean Brits are now guilty until proven innocent. So why don't they care more? http://www.observer.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,328071,00.html # Everything you ever wanted to know of UK politics but were afraid to ask: http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/theissues/archive/0,6729,184781,00.html : Does your conspiracy control the political/economic futures of (m)any sub- continents yet? Do you publish/promulgate information about your strategies? Are you believable? Is anyone? How much gold is enough? Do ETs eat gold? Eh? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $ PSIONICS: Brainwave Reciever- Lucid Dream Goggles- Astral Projection Kit- The Wishing Machine- Electronic Mind Control- Crystal Power Rod- ELF Oscillator- Communicate with the Dead- PK Tester- Electronic Dowsing- Psionic Helmet- Telepathic Enhancer- Meditation Goggles- Kirlean Photography- Plant Communication- Electronic Tranquilizer- Professional Polygraph- plans/kits/assembled: http://www.futurehorizons.net/psi.htm @ "Farscape," SF's salvation: http://feedmag.com/daily/dy060600_master.html @ Wild women & vampire slayers http://feedmag.com/daily/dy060500_master.html @ Hip-hop and Ecstasy: http://www.feedmag.com/daily/dy060200_master.html @ Virtual reality is such old news. What more can be said about it? Why? http://salon.com/books/review/2000/05/24/powers/index.html?CP=SAL&DN=110 : How much reality can you take? D'ya like fantasy/reality/ecstasy/psionics/ plantronics/vamponics/me? Does your brain/mind/spirit/karma require electro- nic reinforcement? Have you reinforced yourself lately? Was it expensive?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # When the world went boom: Yucatan asteroid wiped out dinosaurs. WASHINGTON Scientists say it was hell on Earth - blackened skies, poisonous rain, raging wildfires, monster floods and windstorms, shattering earthquakes, searing ultraviolet rays, bitter cold, then oven-like heat, desolation and mass death. That's the devastating "environmental impact" report experts have recently assembled on the greatest disaster our planet has suffered in the last 250 million years. Most scientists now agree it was caused by an asteroid as much as 10 miles wide that slammed into the Gulf of Mexico 65 million years ago and wiped out 50 percent to 70 percent of all living species. Kablooey: http://www.alienzoo.com/news/n/200006080002.cfm @ STAR TRIBES. Kachora (the "Don Juan" from Castaneda books) has announced the arrival of asteroids. Our ships did blow-up asteroids on collision course several times in the past years, but as soon as Mother Earth will call one or more for cleansing, they will let them pass. Now I will be a bit rough to wake you up all. http://channeling.net/LyurAC/StarTribes.htm : Did Don Juan try to warn the dinos before they were obliterated? Did the Star Seed feel no compunction about the genocide of Earth's reptilioids? Is the current Reptoid/Reticulan conflict a bitter remnant of ancient revenge? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "The familiar dimness of the confessional offered no comfort to Father Flanagan; unused to truly shocking confessions, the young priest had difficulty in providing appropriate spiritual guidance to the despicable criminal who had just admitted his role in engineering the astounding heist of the Vatican treasure -- and the father's problems were magnified by the realization that this confessor (if he but knew it) was the one person in the world who could resurrect the past which haunted the slender young cleric: Derrick O'Malley, who could reveal Father Flanagan's dark secret -- that the priest was in reality a transsexual named Monica O'Malley -- Derrick's sister!" --Nancy Linder * Rev.R.Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.pitas.com * FAX: 603-415-3736 * SkeptiNews bulletins now *ONLINE* at: http://skeptinews.pitas.com/ * Fringes of Thought, Experience, Behavior, Knowledge, Foreboding... |