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@ Good Dykes: http://www.washblade.com/forum/cartoons/dykes/000303a.htm_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
# Boeing accidentally tosses
part of the International Space Station into
a landfill. Where on
earth? Space station parts missing, and public might
foot the bill
for Boeing's mistake. Or was it really a mistake? Who
gains?
http://kentuckyconnect.com/heraldleader/news/030300/nationaldocs/03oops.htm# Navy airmen sentenced for cow killings - dodged stiff
prison sentences
after ranchers urged leniency. Urging by cattle for
harsh punishment was
ignored: http://www.latimes.com/news/state/20000302/t000020436.html: Have you mutilated any cattle lately? Did your alien
masters direct/assist
you, or did you do it on your own? Have you sabotaged
any space stations in
the past few weeks? What technological/historical
objects have you trashed?
# Ancient art scrubbed out? Scientists Scrap
Over Destroyed Ancient Sign.
PARIS — Two eminent French scientists
traded insults after a judicial
report highlighted the disappearance
of prehistoric symbols at the center
of their long dispute. Twelve
red rings that may have held the key to
understanding one of
Europe's first religions have been scrubbed out.
Signs or lichens?
http://www.foxnews.com/science/022800/times_signs.sml_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
# How to spot a Martian. Could
Martians be alive and well, but just hiding?
It is unlikely, but not
impossible, new evidence suggests. Digging into
the regolith:
http://helix.nature.com/nsu/000302/000302-9.html# Is Mars Facing A Comet Hit In May? Or is it just bad
math and morbid
curiosity? http://www.millenngroup.com/repository/cometary/marshit.html# Heard It on the Radio - strange barrage of
high-energy photons even more
intense: http://sigmaxi.org/amsci/issues/Sciobs00/sciobs00-03radio.html: Have cosmic rays wiped out the Martians? Have they
taken shelter? Have hi-
energy particles ruined your evolution? D'ya blame
it all on heedless gods?
Are gods monstrous? Are you? Will they strike your
planet soon? Do you care?
# A TIME OF GIANTS AND MONSTERS. The
discovery of huge bones in antiquity
spawned vivid and imaginative
myths. Or were the monsters and gods all
real? Beware... http://www.archaeology.org/0003/abstracts/monsters.html_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
# New Airship Design Close to
Completion. [EXN] Lockheed Martin is on its
way to propelling a
giant airship into the sky. The blimp-like lighter-
than-air (LTA)
vehicle would operate above the jet stream out of the way
of severe
weather, hovering above the Earth while it could act as a tele-
communications station, a weather observatory or even as a massive
surv-
eillance unit. http://www.exn.net/FlightDeck/News/story.cfm?ID=20000229-54# Japan - Reusable Spaceplane: http://www.spaceviews.com/2000/02/27b.html# Experiment Could Lead to Spacecraft Design Breakthrough
- or could be a
waste: http://www1.msfc.nasa.gov/NEWSROOM/news/releases/2000/00-047.html: D'ya fret about more airborne surveillance systems? Are
they even more
dangerous/vulnerable than satellites? Have you designed
appropriate weapons
yet? Would you rather shoot down blimps, spacecraft,
aircraft, condors, me?
# Missiles that Choose Their Own Targets Are Big
Money-Savers - humans not
necessary anymore: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns222828# NASA & Navy Explore Magnetic Fields for Quicker,
Smoother, and Cheaper
Launches: http://memagazine.org/contents/current/features/birds/birds.html_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
# VINTAGE ALTAR OF HEAVEN -
The Xian Altar of Heaven is the oldest of
its kind found in China to
date. It was reburied shortly after its
excavation.It is estimated
that 17 Chinese emperors conducted religious
rites here. http://www.archaeology.org/0003/newsbriefs/altar.html# Human Sacrifice In The US: http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/HUMSAC.htm# The Search for History in the Bible. Does the Bible
preserve a
reliable historical memory or is it an ideological
document with-
out historical value? http://www.bib-arch.org/barma00/search.html# ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY'S UNEASY RELATIONSHIP -
ARCHAEOLOGY'S PERILOUS
PLEASURES: http://www.archaeology.org/0003/abstracts/archaeology.html: Have you sacrificed any
humans/animals/aliens/principles/lawyers lately?
D'ya use a really sharp
knife? What're your favorite sacrificial guidebook/
altar/techniques? Do
you sacrifice historical authenticity for orthodoxy?
# Portuguese
Petroglyphs: www.archaeology.org/0003/newsbriefs/portugal.html# Contactee Van Tassel's 'Giant Rock' In Mojave Desert
Breaks Apart - split
by lightning, UFO, curse? http://www.emissaryoflight.com/giant_rock.htm_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
# Bigger not necessarily
better. According to conventional wisdom, the Earth
should have been
frozen solid in its early years, when the newborn Sun was
dimmer
than it is today. But geological evidence tells us that ocean waves
reflected those anaemic sunrises. Now the mystery of how the Earth
escaped
the big freeze has been deepened by new findings. What's
behind the Faint
Young Sun Paradox? http://helix.nature.com/nsu/000302/000302-3.html# Climate's Long-Lost Twin: A Warm Spell in the Distant
Past Holds Soggy
Clues to the Future: http://www.sciencenews.org/20000226/bob2.asp# LFAS Danger To Transatmospheric Life Forms Including
'Rods'? Low Frequency
Active Sonar (LFAS) hazard: http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/rodstran.htm: Have you reverse-engineered any climatic systems
lately? Hid you practice
terraforming any planets? Did you wipe out any/all
lifeforms accidentally?
Are such miscues inevitable in the search for
universal understanding? Why?
@ Weird Science Projects: http://www.sciencenews.org/20000304/safari.asp_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
@ "Everyting you'll ever need
to decipher the Easter Island Hieroglyphs,
etc., etc., etc."
http://www.rongorongo.org/index.html [thanks jacquesguy]
# Great Computations - Owners of home computers
join researchers in cracking
problems and crunching data. http://www.sciencenews.org/20000304/bob1.asp@ Math Trek - Losing to Win: http://sciencenews.org/20000304/mathtrek.asp# FABRIC OF TIME. A 2,000-year-old Peruvian textile
offers evidence of early
Andean calendrical systems. Analysis of the
intricately decorated garment
suggests that it served as a calendar
that wove both solar and lunar move-
ments and the rising and
setting of constellations and stars into a yearly
cycle that
anticipated the better-known highland Inka calendar by 1,500
years.
Taught by ETs? http://www.archaeology.org/0003/abstracts/peru.html: Have you decoded any ancient/middling/recent knowledge
systems lately? Do
they crack once you apply
computers/intuition/gnosis/nanobots? Have you ever
woven your knowledge
into a great tapestry? Did you bury it well? Where??
# Advanced
Civilization Found in Illinois - nowhere near Chicago:
http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20000225/history_cahokia.html# SUBWAY TO THE PAST. Athens' new metro system spurs an
excavation of
unprecedented size. http://archaeology.org/0003/abstracts/subway.html_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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