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@ Are you lost too? http://www.iamlost.com/
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# New UFO Crash In Brazil Forest? Explosion, Devastation... But No Wreckage.
A huge UFO was seen by hundreds of witnesses - some of them Kaiapoh
Indians - when it crossed over the skies of Sao Felix do Xinguh on October
9th up in Parah State. This UFO fell down in the middle of the forest
about 40 kms away from town. http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/wreck.htm
: Are you active in suppressing evidence of UFOs? Do you scurry around to
crash sites, scooping up debris? Where do you store it? Is is smelly? Why?
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# China Charges Falungong With Leaking State Secrets. BEIJING (AFP) Members
of the banned Falungong sect obtained and leaked state secrets, including
top secret documents, China's official Xinhua news agency said. The group
had "political motives" and "used the Internet to spread rumors based on
information in their ill-gotten state documents, which has created dist-
urbances for the government and disrupted social stability," Xinhua said.
Dirty rotten cultist spies: http://www.insidechina.com/news.php3?id=104089
: Has your belief system disrupted any social stability lately? Is it fun?
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# Natural Human Computing. Researchers develop a computer algorithm that
aims to imitate the way humans think by recognizing patterns in data and
images. It could even make for better Web searches. But does it have
faith? http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,32093,00.html
: Do humans think better than computers? Do Reptilioids think better than
humans? Would you rather be a human, a Reptoid, a computer, a bicycle seat?
@ Millennialism is an abiding demon of the human mind. We search for order,
and find it; expect havoc, and wreak it; find a hole, and fill it. Yup.
http://www.thenewrepublic.com/magazines/tnr/current/coverstory110899.html
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# Discovery Separates Thought From Perception. Using a novel approach to
imaging, researchers have discovered that thinking about moving objects
pre-activates areas of the brain's motion detection system before any
moving objects appear. These areas would hold our expectations on-line as
we prepare to cross a busy street, return a tennis serve or catch a fall-
ing child. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/10/991026074849.htm
: Do you trick your mind into operating more efficiently? Are your thoughts
& perceptions totally separate? Do you interact with reality? How d'ya know?
@ Why is it that natural languages like English or Italian, imperfect as
they are, seem to work so much better than artificially constructed
languages like Esperanto? http://www.italynet.com/columbia/dream.htm
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# Neanderthals survived longer than thought. (BBC) Neanderthals, once
portrayed as grunting, primitive cave-men, lived as recently as 28,000
years ago, according to research on bones found in a cave in Croatia.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_486000/486041.stm
# Evidence Indicates Modern Humans & Neanderthals Coexisted. WASHINGTON -
Neanderthals and modern humans may have coexisted in central Europe for
thousands of years, possibly even mating, suggests new Croatian data.
http://www.canoe.ca/WorldTicker/CANOE-wire.Neanderthals-Humans.html
: Is y'r Neanderthal ancestry obvious? Are you primarily Neanderthal? Do you
coexist with Homo Sapiens well? Which subspecies has worse personal habits?
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# Mice 'make human proteins in semen'. (BBC) Scientists genetically engineer
mice to produce human proteins in their semen, which may allow drugs to be
farmed from GM livestock. Now if they could only produce hallucinogens...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_485000/485123.stm
: Do you prefer semen from humans, mice, whales, aliens, deities, me? Have
you been gene-altered to produce interesting/useful/valuable/quaint chems?
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# Jerky preachers even bug Jeezoids. 2 Bible-thumping evangelicals infested
Yale to damn Jews, Muslims, gays & rock'n'roll fans. Students called the
cops on the screamin' sidewalk preachers, but were told such obnoxious
behavior isn't illegal. http://yaledailynews.com/news/article.asp?AID=2533
@ Philosophy won't kill theology, Albert Camus thought. Religion is best
countered by a belief that one cannot, must not believe in God. Rotsa
ruck: http://www.thenewrepublic.com/magazines/tnr/current/wood110899.html
: Is your belief system obnoxious, or just your members? Are preachers or
philosophers more obnoxious? Do you believe in one or more gods? Which? Why?
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# Team ABL, <http://airbornelaser.com/> a USAF / Lockheed-Martin / Boeing /
TRW consortium, has finished ground-testing a multi-hundred kilowatt laser
laser system <http://spacer.com/spacecast/news/laser-99e.html> intended to
be mounted on a 747 <http://www.smdc.army.mil/FactSheets/THEL.html> for
theater missile defense. This big stuff is fine and dandy, but when do we
get our personal ray guns, <http://www.toyraygun.com/home.html> dammit?
: Have you designed/built/used a raygun lately? What's your favorite laser?
Have you burnt anything out of the sky lately? Do you prefer ground targets?
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