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# I, robot. Will self-replicating robots rule us? Will we become hybrids,
  part human and part machine? Such questions no longer come from fanatics
  and fearmongers http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/107/focus/I_robot+.shtml

# Your Future Foretold by a Horse! More Psychic than Nostradamus,
  Able to out-spoon-bend Uri Geller, It's the Psychic Horse. Sees
  all, knows all, tells all: http://www.whimsica.com/psychichorse.htm

# UK Tomato Growers Make Beeline for Feng Shui Advice. LONDON. Tomato
  growers have turned to the ancient Chinese art of feng shui in the
  hope of producing a bumper crop to compete against cheaper imports.
  Rotsa ruck, guys: http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/n_fengsh.htm

: How cybernetic/human/spiritual/unreal is your organism? Have you hit upon
the right mix yet? Are you working on having a better future? What will you/
it be like? Is your future better foretold by robots, cyborgs, psychics, me?

@ Luke Skywalker is gay? Heard the naughty rumors about Capt. Kirk
  and Mr. Spock? http://slate.msn.com/Features/fanfic/fanfic.asp
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# Watch This Space And Win Bigger Breasts. VIENNA (Reuters) An Austrian
  television station is offering women a breast enlargement operation
  in a bid to boost viewing numbers for its tabloid program. The
  booby-prize: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000420/08/odd-breasts

# Scientists Rewire Visual Function of the Brain. (Reuters) Scientists have
  rewired the visual input of young animals to a part of the brain normally
  used for hearing, demonstrating a versatility of function that might some
  day lead to treatments for brain damage and blindness. Won't help stupid-
  ity tho: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000419/sc/science_brain_1.html

# Research Into Our Sixth Sense - What colour is this woman thinking of?
  Déjà vu, precognition:  http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/p_sixth.htm
@ "As far above us as we are above the amoeba" http://caus.org/mc042000.htm

: Are your sensory organs well-organized? Do they need rewiring? Would you
like to have your senses rewired, just for the entertainment value? Will you
become a better person? Will you have bigger tits? Will you think of colors?
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# Skeptics Take Aim at Alien Abductions. Minneapolis - Life would be more
  exciting if science lightened up a bit. Elvis Presley could croon at the
  White House. ETs could stalk the aisles at 7-Eleven. Martians could carve
  giant stone faces on their planet to keep watch on those pesky Earthlings.
  It's almost too bad these events don't happen, because pseudoscience can
  be lots more fun than real science. www.farshore.force9.co.uk/n_skept0.htm

# Ghosts Are Real. The movie "The Sixth Sense" is now fascinating audiences
  all around the world with its story of a child who can see dead people.
  But it's only a movie. Valerie Dean is a Johannesburg psychic who can not
  only see ghosts but also talks to them. Her ability was tested by the
  South Africa Society for the Study of the Paranormal and she was given
  an A-Plus rating. http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/saghost1.htm

: D'ya prefer real science, psuedo-science, Christian Science, creation sci-
ence, computer science, political science? Is any discipline with 'science'
in its name a bogosity/religion/superstition? Has Elvis left the building??

@ I KISS YOU! I like travel I go 3-4 planets every month. I went Earth, Ska-
  ro, Peladon,Axos, Galifrey, Skonnos, Ravalox, Vortis, Sense-sphere, Telos,
  Mars, Exarius,Tara, Manussa, Benidorm. I like sex. I like to be friendship
  from different planet. I live in TARDIS -many times ...( all galaxies -
  often earth - much history)... http://www.angelfire.com/nt/mahirwho/
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# Medical scanner shows dino heart. (BBC) The first ever fossilised dinosaur
  heart has been discovered by scientists in the US. Ya gotta have heart,
  eh? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_720000/720871.stm

TurbDino: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_259000/259902.stm
# Caught in their tracks (BBC) http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9711994
# Giant found in dino graveyard http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9711995
# Rethinking the Dinosaur (ABC) http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9712085

# LOST TRIBES FOUND. The Lost Tribes of Israel have all been located and
  accounted for. Sent into exile nearly 3,000 years ago, descendents of
  the original ten tribes can still be found in Burma, China, India,
  Pakistan, Afghanistan. http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/tentribe.htm

: Have you found anything/anyone lately? Did anyone know it/they were lost?
D'ya find a lot of stuff just by looking around? Would you rather find Jews,
dinos, money, yourself? Have you lost yourself lately? Did anyone notice??

# Philippines plane debris searched - no Reptoid bodies found yet:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565846657-540
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Conspiracies'R'Us:

# Iran cleric urges reformers' deaths. TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A hard-line
  cleric urged his followers to kill pro-reform writers and activists
  whom he says are undermining Iran's revolutionary principles. "Kill
  them wherever you find them. This is God's unchangeable tradition."
  Yow. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565841480-812

# HACKING AWAY: Pro-ETA Basque separatist Hackers zapped the Web site of
  Bilbao's Guggenheim Museum. www.computeruser.com/news/00/04/19/news1.html
# CANADIAN TEEN CHARGED IN WEB SITE ATTACK RELEASED - MafiaBoy runs for
  nearest modem: http://CNN.com/2000/TECH/computing/04/19/dos.investigation
# NSA, CIA: Big Bro Not Watching: http://farshore.force9.co.uk/n_bbro00.htm

@ Noam Chomsky scores valid points against NATO's actions in Kosovo,
  but they are sullied by a torrent of ad hominem accusations. What
  a pickle: http://www.dissentmagazine.org/archive/sp00/neier.html

# Clinton calls memorial site 'sacred' - sacrifices Constitution on bloody
  altar: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565850542-6a8
# Bush-appointed police chief resigns over "porch monkey," "niggers"
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565860879-ab6
@ Sure, you're familiar with their dictatorships, but what about their
  fashion sense? http://www.visi.com/~sgrantz/dict_fash/index.html

@ LOST AND FOUND: A growing number of stolen Chinese artifacts turn up in
  Japan, a clear-cut example of a rampant global problem: cultural vampir-
  ism. Yow: http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/arts/china-relics.html

# World Bank protesters hold vigil - devouring soy milk, chicken,
  juice and bagels, stew with lentils, potatoes and cabbage. See
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565848280-d9c
# Low-fat, high-fibre diet's anti-cancer benefits doubted - darn:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565849050-a69
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  "Bother," said Pooh, as his QualComm shares bottomed-out.

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SkeptiChat subscriber reply - From: "Al Christians" <achrist@easystreet.com>

> # COSMIC RAYS WILL REVEAL UNIVERSAL SECRETS - Argentine telescope
> may solve mysteries surrounding the Big Bang, black holes ...
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_719000/719514.stm
> http://www.sciam.com/specialissues/0398cosmos/0398cronin.html

Given the notable tendency of the dominant life forms on earth to hurl
things at each other, we should afford due respect to the hypothesis that
the cosmic rays are the stray rounds and misses from gazillions & billions
of star wars.  Nothing in these articles to disprove that, is there?  Al.
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# BOSTON MOM LEAVES BABY IN CAR... AND LION EATS HIM!  SADA, South Africa.
  Boston businesswoman Cynthia Ambele and her 18-month-old son Andy were
  driving in a wild and woolly game park near here when she stopped her
  car to use a toilet and returned to find that a lion had eaten her baby!
  Vacation quite ruined:  http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1846.html
# Mystery Big Cat Wrecks UK Garden http://farshore.force9.co.uk/abc_uk13.htm

# Uganda deaths ignored: http://news.excite.com/news/uw/000418/university-89
# Mountaineer Describes Firsthand Look at Yeti: http://caus.org/pn042000.htm
@ Want to know what's going on? http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Nook/1298/
# Heavy Metal 2000: http://news.excite.com/news/pr/000418/co-starz-pictures
@ Nazis No! http://news.excite.com/photo/img/r/chile/nazis/20000418/stg02d

: Have you devoured any humans/aliens/animals/robots/minds/futures lately?
Which are tastiest? Do you breed/control/torture big cats to devour humans/
vegetables/lawyers? Should the devoured/tortured/perplexed be ignored? Why?
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# "Terra" Spacecraft Open For Business. After a picture-perfect launch into
  space last December, NASA's premier Earth Observing System Satellite,
  Terra, has completed on-orbit checkout and verification and is "open for
  business." http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/04/000420074602.htm

# World's Largest Astronomical Observatories Now Accessible Over Internet2
  Networks. A new high-performance Internet connection announced today will
  transform the ability of astronomers to access world-leading telescopes
  located on the peak of Mauna Kea on the island of Hawai`i. Get a faster
  modem: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/04/000420074012.htm

# Museum 'posse' rounds up Colorado meteorites. 75 years later, the boom and
  smoke of a sizzling fireball are as clear to the witnesses as on the hot
  July day when it slammed into the ground next to a dirt road. Thick tail
  of smoke, sonic boom: http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/n_colmet.htm

: Have you observed anything spatial/special/spectral lately?Are your obser-
vations automated/cybernated/validated? Should the work be left to computers
/robots/humans/deities/demons/me? Should the observations be freely shared?
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# 28 LINKED TO BIN LADEN: www.CNN.com/2000/WORLD/meast/04/20/jordan.trial.ap
# Taliban charge two Arabs with spying on Bin Laden for U.S. - could be fed
  to dogs: http://www.worldtribune.com/Archive-2000/me-binladen-04-20.html
# Bin Laden Filipino group beheads 2, wants US to release World Trade Center
  bomber: http://www.conservativehq.com/chq/displayarticle?articleId=962
# Partial DERA Selloff Worries Pentagon - UK Defence R&D agency set for £1bn
  float - secrets may be revealed: http://farshore.force9.co.uk/n_dera.htm

# New B-3 Bomber Faster, Stealthier - Experts Are Designing Bombers of the
  Future Today. Even before the USAF finishes building its fleet of 21 B-2
  Spirit stealth bombers, aircraft futurists are busy designing the nation's
  next bomber deep inside a secure vault at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. The
  B-2 may rule the skies for now, but the bomber that makes it obsolete is
  already on the drawing board. http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/n_steth.htm

: D'ya prefer to inflict terrorist attacks on the retail/wholesale level? Is
single-target terrorism too slow? Would you rather inflict massive damage on
widespread targets simultaneously from far bases? How's your infrastructure?
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# FBI hold "hostage crisis" drill - preparing for Philadelphia convention.
  A "hostage crisis" at the former Navy Base ends quietly. The agency said
  it was planning for a worst-case scenario: some Republicans might survive.
  Bother. http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/2000/Apr/20/pa_west/PFBI20.htm

# WACO LEAK FOUND: http://news.excite.com/news/pr/000419/tx-the-news-texas
# Reno On Waco, Using Force: http://newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/4/19/232037
# Davidians hope a new church can close wounds on 7th anniversary of fire -
  dedication, remembrance: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9705822
# Waco’s Endless Questions: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9703954

# Plan to track foreign students criticized. (GNS) Immigration officials are
  readying a $43 million computerized system to track all 500,000 foreign
  students in the US under a program inspired by the 1993 terrorist bombing
  of the World Trade Center. http://usatoday.com/news/washdc/ncstue16.htm

: Have you kidnapped/embargoed/burnt/shot any hostages lately? Are hostages
expendable? Are you? Does your conspiracy plan hostage situations? Would you
rather just blow stuff up? Are you being tracked by a counter-conspiracy??
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Littleton'R'Us:

# Threats Close Several Schools. (AP) Classes in some schools around the US
  were canceled today because of threats of violence on the anniversary of
  the Columbine High School shootings. Epidemic of fear paralyzes nation:
 http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20000420/us/columbine_school_threats_1.html

# COLUMBINE +1: FEAR/SORROW ENDURE www.CNN.com/2000/US/04/20/columbine.01.ap
# Lawsuit alleges Columbine victim killed by sheriff's department bullet -
  died close to safety: http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/04/19/columbine.lawsuit/
# Columbine update -- blaming the cops - it's always their fault, eh?
  http://salon.com/news/feature/2000/04/20/columbine/print.html

# On Columbine Anniversary, Kids Still Lack Violence Education. A year after
  the massacre at Columbine High School, a study finds that public school
  districts have policies against violence but few actually teach kids how
  to prevent it. http://sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/04/000417164315.htm

# Columbine tragedy remembered: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9711830
# Columbine: Crosses And Blame: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9711195
# Should Columbine Be Forgiven? http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9709332
# New School for Young Shooter: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9711450

# Reasons for cursing vary. Oh, damn! Oh, hell! Oh, shit! You've heard these
  words before; they're cuss words. Cussing in the United States is a common
  thing. People cuss at sporting events, after an injury, or on television
  trying to be funny. http://news.excite.com/news/uw/000419/odd-275
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  "But luckily, when the bullet entered his skull, it only damaged
   the 90% of his brain he didn't use." --Benjamin Radford

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@ Nice nibs: http://www.zianet.com/jmcdgwin/nib.htm
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# Fragment of Cross Held by Vatican. A fragment of Jesus' cross held by the
  Vatican could not be a clever medieval forgery like the Shroud of Turin.
  A portion of the Titulus, the placard placed on the cross that mockingly
  declared Jesus the King of the Jews,has long been safeguarded from acade-
  mic scrutiny by the Vatican. http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/crossvat.htm

# Easter Eggs Can Be Dangerous to Dogs. LONDON (Reuters) Dog owners beware:
  too much Easter kindness can kill your dog. Don't stuff yourself with cho-
  colate bunnies either: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000419/10/odd-easter
# BROADWAY'S SECOND COMING: 'JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR' IS BACK - and boy, is
  he pissed! http://CNN.com/2000/SHOWBIZ/Arts/04/19/jesus.christ.superstar/
# 10-COMMANDMENTS Gold! http://CNN.com/2000/SHOWBIZ/TV/04/19/nielsens.ap/

: D'ya care that Easter is named after Ishtar; that Easter celebrations are
actually recreations of ancient heathen (spring) fertility rituals; that the
Easter sacraments are dangerous for humans/animals; that Yeshua was an ET??
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# MEDIUM CLAIMS TO CURE 'POSSESSED' WOMEN THRU SEX RITUAL & BABY PACIFIERS.
  Kuala Lumpur. Malaysians have been warned to be wary of a man claiming he
  can invoke a "child god" to cleanse women of evil spirits by sucking paci-
  fiers and having sex with them. Photographed wearing a bib and sucking
  3 pacifiers, while a half-empty baby's bottle of milk was on the table:
 www.scmp.com/News/Asia/Article/FullText_asp_ArticleID-20000418032327242.asp

# Too Busy to Pray? Call Sinbusters! MILAN, Italy (Reuters) An Italian
  housewife has gone into the prayer business to rescue the souls of people
  whose daily grind leaves no time to attend to their own salvation. Dial-a-
  prayer goes automatic: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000419/10/odd-prayer
MAN INTRUDES HOME- SENT BY ANGEL www.mndaily.com/daily/2000/04/19/news/new4/

: What's your favorite divine/spiritual/demonic/alien intervention? Have you
disturbed any (para)normal entities lately? Do your disturbances usually in-
volve sex/phones/computers/hammers/drugs/pacifiers/robots?Are you effective?
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# MOST U.S. WOMEN IN VIOLENT RELATIONSHIPS. More than half of all American
  women have experienced some sort of violence in their intimate relation-
  ships, including physical abuse or psychological battering, according to a
  new study. "I was expecting half the numbers we found, and the thing that
  was clearly the most surprising to us was the large  proportion of women
  who had ever experienced violence," said study co-author Dr. Ann Coker.
  http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=31882&src=n47

# DAD CHOPS OFF SEXY LADY'S HEAD WITH AN AX -- BECAUSE SHE SEDUCED HIS 15-
  YEAR-OLD SON! BIRMINGHAM, England -- Tony Phillips exploded in rage when
  he found out his teenage son was having sex with a sultry 34-year-old
  neighbor lady -- and cut off the woman's head with an ax! "It was like
  hitting a piece of rubber." http://weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1847.html

: Are you in a violent relationship? Are violent relationships mandated by
evolution/deities/mindcontrollers/aliens/me? Should/can/will interpersonal
violence be reduced by laws/drugs/surgery/counseling/mindrays/evolution??
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# Scientists Call South Africa's AIDS Policy Idiotic. WASHINGTON (Reuters)
  Frustrated scientists battling the HIV epidemic denounced South Africa's
  AIDS policy as idiotic, saying thousands were dying while politicos argued
  about causes & cures of the disease. Pres Thabo Mbeki questions HIV/AIDS
  link, AZT: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000419/ts/aids_safrica_1.html
@ HEALTHY DEVIL: STDs http://h-devil-www.mc.duke.edu/h-devil/stds/stds.htm

# POT SHRINKS BRAIN TUMORS IN MICE. Researchers in Madrid are experimenting
  with the anticancer properties of marijuana and coming up with surprising
  results. http://healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=32095
# Nerve poison leaves telltale evidence- organophosphates traceable by anti-
  bodies - proves neurodamage: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9697026
@ HOW CAN I SAFELY CLEAN MICE FECES TO AVOID HANTA VIRUS? Soak with Lysol:
  http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=31894

: What's your favorite medical conspiracy?Is Pres Mbeki promoting the spread
of AIDS? Who's paying him? Who pays govts to suppress cannabis? Who pays for
neurotoxins to be disseminated in the environment? Who's preparing Earth??
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# STEM CELLS MIGHT HELP REVERSE SPINAL CORD DAMAGE. Promising research may
  help people paralyzed by spinal cord injuries. Stumbling block: the exper-
  imental therapy is controversial, as it involves fetal cell transplants.
 http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/deanfulltexttopics.cfm?id=24713&src=n58

# DNA Tests Resolve French Royal Mystery. PARIS (Reuters) Scientists have
  cracked one of the great mysteries of European history by using DNA tests
  to prove that the son of executed French King Louis XVI & Marie-Antoinette
 died as a child in prison. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000419/10/odd-king

# SURGEONS FIX BOY BORN WITH HIS HEAD ON BACKWARD!  HOUSTON, Texas -- Little
  Medgar Clye is a walking, talking miracle. The 2-year-old boy,who was born
  with his head on backward, underwent history-making surgery to turn his
  head around -- and survived! http://weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1852.html

: What's your favorite medical dilemma/mystery/quandary?Have you manipulated
any nervous systems lately? Would you rather experiment on nerves/DNA/chems?
Have you devised any medical solutions lately? Were you aided by ETs? How??
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# ADDICTION'S ROOTS ARE IN THE GENES. A blockbuster of a study reveals the
  importance of genes in causing addictive  behavior. This should color our
  thinking about how to treat drug addicts - treatment, instead of jail,
  seems a better for someone with a genetic predisposition. Politicos will
  balk: http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=31750

# Holograms Revolutionize Data Storage - soon, you can backup your
  mind on disk: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news_223425.html
# Eternal youth? It's all in the genes. Deities are superfluous.
  http://theage.com.au/news/20000419/A12020-2000Apr18.html
# Smoking in later life linked to impaired intellect - duh...
  http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/bma-sil041800.html

: Have you manipulated any genes/minds/lungs/gonads lately? Have ETs aided
your research/experiments/tortures? How? Are you and opposing politicos just
pawns in a power struggle between competing groups of aliens? Do you care??
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  "If you tore the wings from the back of an angel you would find before you
   nothing more than a man with a heart of gold.  Oh, and you'd go to hell.
   I mean, c'mon...ripping wings off angels!" http://www.SleazyTabloid.com

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@ EarthWeek: http://www.cnn.com/NATURE/specials/diary.planet/
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# French Defence Ministry Releases Radar UFO Info. For the first time ever,
  a private French UFO research group obtains a file on a military radar
  detection directly thru the French Ministry of Defence. Reveals dealings
  of UFO cases by French military: http://sightings.com/general/radarufo.htm
@ French Report- UFOs & Defense: http://aerial.itlnet.net/cometa_report.htm

# UFOs Australia & India: LUMINOUS ORANGE UFO SIGHTED NEAR MELBOURNE - SLOW-
  MOVING YELLOW UFO SPOTTED NEAR NEW DELHI: http://www.caus.org/mu042000.htm
# Oz's Mystery Min Min Lights: http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/minmin.htm
# Triangle/Boomerang UFOs, more: http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/ff_15.htm

# UFO AND REPTOID SEEN IN MISSOURI - HOVERING GRAY UFO SPOTTED OVER TOLEDO,
  OHIO - SMALL TRIANGULAR UFO SEEN IN NORTHERN BORNEO - 1755: UNFORGETTABLE
  ANACHARSIST CLOOTZ. Zounds: http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/uforo516.htm

: Have UFOs swarmed over your airspace lately? Have ETs infiltrated your lo-
cal military organization(s)? Do they manufacture false reports about their
existence/operations/intentions? Do they influence your politics/history??
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# NEW SEARCH FOR ALIENS. (BBC) Scientists in the United States unveil their
 latest project to look for signs of other intelligent life in the Universe.
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_719000/719951.stm

@ Seti League: http://www.setileague.org/
@ Optical Seti: http://www.coseti.org/
@ Seti@home: http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/
@ Seti Institute: http://www.seti.org/

# Search continues for life in space- absence of evidence is not evidence of
 absence: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_704000/704124.stm
# How life may live on Europa - it can't be much worse than New York City,
  eh? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_619000/619407.stm

: Have you found any aliens lately? If you find any aliens, what will you do
with them? Are you collecting the entire set? D'ya wanna trade the extras?
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# Global Warming Pushes Into Canadian Arctic. PANGNIRTUNG, Nunavut (Reuters)
  He may be only a hunter in Canada's remote Arctic, but Steven Kooneeliusie
  certainly knows as much about the practical effects of global warming as
  any environmental scientist. He and the other Inuit whose job it is to
  brave snow and ice to find caribou, seal and other animals say the signs
  of a gradual increase in temperature are everywhere. Snowmobile overheats:
  http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000419/sc/globalwarming_canada_1.html

# US HAS WARMEST JAN-MARCH PERIOD ON RECORD - more severe weather in future:
 http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000418/sc/environment_temperatures_1.html
# NOAA: LONG, HOT US SUMMER: http://www.CNN.com/2000/WEATHER/04/20/la.nina/
# CHEMTRAILS BREAKTHROUGH... VIA BLACKLIGHT? EUREKA! I think I've found it!
 http://pub8.ezboard.com/fchemtrailschemtrails.showMessage?topicID=578.topic

: Is global warming improving/ruining your life/livelihood/sanity? D'ya have
a financial/political/spiritual/artistic interest in global warming? Are y'r
chemtrail-laying flights making you healthy/wealthy/wise? Are you laughing?
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# HACKERS ATTACK AREA 51 IMAGES WEBSITE. Raleigh, N.C. [AP] Many Internet
  surfers ran into roadblocks today when they tried to reach a Web site
  displaying the first detailed satellite images to be made public of
  Area 51, the supersecret Air Force test site that UFO buffs think is
  a repository of alien technology. Was it hackers, as the company said?
  Or a case for "The X-Files"? http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/a51more.htm

# PENTAGON DENIES AREA 51-ALIEN LINK - "We keep all the ETs down at Dulce -
  it's in the contract" http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/alipenta.htm
# New Area 51 Satellite Photos: http://www.fas.org/irp/overhead/groom.htm
# Hackers Zap A51 Photo Site: http://www.sightings.com/general/pound51.htm
# Pix Bring Area 51 Into Full View: http://www.sightings.com/general/51.htm

: Are your alien contacts in danger of exposure?Will you do ANYTHING to keep
your secrets secure? Is all Net-hacking an attempt to hide Reptoid secrets??
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# COSMIC RAYS WILL REVEAL UNIVERSAL SECRETS - Argentine telescope may solve
  mysteries surrounding the Big Bang, black holes and sub-atomic particles.
  Good. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_719000/719514.stm
@ Cosmic Rays: http://www.sciam.com/specialissues/0398cosmos/0398cronin.html
@ The Auger Project: http://www.auger.org/

# X-raying the violent Universe - hold your breath and stay still:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_543000/543638.stm
# Moon's underground shadow - don't we all have something to hide?
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_360000/360693.stm
# Big balloon bags antimatter - holding it is yet another matter:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_423000/423656.stm

# Author of '2001' Gets Orbiting Namesake. (Reuters) SciFi writer Arthur C.
  Clarke, considered the father of geostationary orbit, now has a satellite
  named after him. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000419/10/odd-clarke

: What's your favorite universal secret? Have you solved any universal sec-
rets lately? Have you conceived/designed/built/utilized any tools for solv-
ing such secrets? Are any such tools named after you? Does this alert ETs/
deities/demons to seek you out & punish you for intruding on their privacy?
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# Vaccine Market For Mosquito-Borne Japanese Encephalitis Being Created? THE
  MARKET POTENTIAL FOR A NEW, IMPROVED SINGLE DOSE JE VACCINE IS ESTIMATED
  [ Source: http://www.peptide.co.uk ] TO BE BETWEEN $150 MILLION AND $200
  MILLION DOLLARS - see http://www.sightings.com/general/vacmark.htm
# AUSTRALIA ON ALERT AFTER MOSQUITO VIRUS OUTBREAK - worst epidemic since
  '74: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000418/02/health-australia-encephalitis

# Herpes Virus Targets & Destroys Cancer Cells In Mice. SAN DIEGO (Reuters)
  By changing its genetic code, scientists are turning the destructive
  energies of the herpes simplex virus on an even more formidable foe --
  cancer. Researchers say a treatment based on the altered virus can slow
  the spread of human stomach cancers in mice, with no noticeable side
  effects. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000417/hl/rsa_66.html

: Have you exploited (m)any diseases lately? Are all diseases susceptible to
economic/political/religious/artistic manipulation/exploitation? What's your
favorite disease? Are epidemics our friends, weeding-out the weak and unfit?
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"As dawn breaks, it sometimes seems as though nothing could deter a songbird
  from singing the praises of the coming day. But you'd be surprised at what
  you could do with some rocks and a good arm." -- http://SleazyTabloid.com

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