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@ SciFaiku: http://www.scifaiku.com/index.html
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# Robot Takes First Solo Ride. PITTSBURGH (AP) After many months with only
its learner's permit, Nomad the robot is finally driving solo on an icy
Antarctic plain. http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000130/12/exp-nomad-robot
@ Cool Robot <http://ranier.hq.nasa.gov/telerobotics_page/coolrobots.html>
Of The Week: Troody <http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/chunks/chunks.html> -
a fully contained 3D bipedal walking dinosaur robot, from the MIT Leg
<http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/leglab/robots/robots.html> Lab. Oil me.
: What's your favorite robot? Are you now or have you ever been robotic? Is
humanity highly overrated? Would you rather be a dinosaur or a dino-robot?
Does being robotic mean never having to say you're sorry? Are you sorry??
@ Space Shuttle Flight Deck: http://www.nubbin.com/images/flightdk.jpg
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@ Considerations Re Alleged Fatima Revelations. It is quite possible that
this sort of "Mercury Zapping" mechanism could also happen to the Earth.
What would it look like to us from the ground ??? Probably a huge flash of
blue-white light followed by a fiery halo around the Earth and a fiery
tail seen streaming out away from Earth into space. The actual fire will
be our outer atmosphere at very high altitude being ionized into plasmas
by the incoming high flux density CME proton wave and being partially
stripped off into space. http://members.aol.com/phikent/orbit/new146.htm
: Do channeled entities tell you that massive solar flares will blow Earth's
atmosphere to smithereens? Do you look forward to this? Have you prepared?
# Solar wind blows some of Earth's atmosphere into space:
http://science.msfc.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast08dec98_1.htm
# Huge CME discharges following immediately from the impact of two small
comets into the SUN: http://members.aol.com/phikent/orbit/projectile.html
@ Fatima3: http://www.earthchangesTV.com/breaking/December/1224fatima.htm
@ More Fatima info - "Our Lady's Library" - http://www.fatima.org/library
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# Brain Bank Will Aid Studies Of Head Injuries. Researchers announced plans
to open a first-of-its-kind bank of damaged human brain tissue to support
studies of traumatic brain injury, which affects someone in the US every
15 seconds. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/01/000127104025.htm
# Polymer Fixes Nerve Damage In Animals With Spinal Injuries. A brief appli-
cation of a polymer commonly used in medicine and cosmetics has been shown
to immediately repair damaged nerve membranes in live guinea pigs with
severe spinal cord injuries. The polymer, called polyethylene glycol or
PEG, works by "fusing" membranes of damaged nerve cells; it can be applied
up to 8 hours after the injury without adversely affecting the patient's
recovery. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/01/000131081442.htm
: Do y'r nerves need to be glued back together? Does your brain need repair?
Would you rather be fixed or left in a natural, organic state? Is neurosur-
gery Satanic, counter to GOD's will? Do you pray for recovery? Does it work?
$ Nori© Nasal Passage Cleaner - Free your nose up, take deeper breaths, and
get back your health with a natural & gentle nasal passage cleaner. Blow-
ing your nose is not enough! http://www2.active.ch/%7Egerstei/main.en.html
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# Spirituality surviving in Las Vegas. Its face turned toward the glittery,
new casino-hotels on the southern end of Las Vegas Boulevard, a life-size
statue of Jesus spreads its arms wide, as if to embrace the throngs of
tourists milling about the towering Sphinx outside the Luxor, the fairy-
tale castle at the Excalibur, and the make-believe skyscrapers at New York
New York. http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,150010043,00.html?
@ Choose your own <http://www.princeton.edu/~ahutgoff/otadventure.html> Old
Testament adventure. And see http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Web/ - Selah!
: What's your favorite spiritual adventure? What fairy-tale land does your
belief system inhabit? Would you rather gamble for immortality, cash, food,
sex, power, entertainment? Do your deities ever cheat? Is the game fixed??
# BUSH STILL HAS A LOT OF WORK TO DO WITH THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT. The religious
right was declared politically dead last year --- but --- the mummy walks!
AAiiiieeeee!!! http://politicslive.com/2000/013000/right013000.asp Arrgh!
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# The Strange Saga of Steven Leung. Family members demand answers after a
man who founded a string of Silicon Valley companies is declared brain-
dead in Beijing. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,33988,00.html
# High-tech exec beaten, brain-dead - left unconscious in a bar:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563751151-3d6
# CHINA BRANDS ANOTHER GROUP AS A CULT. China has closed down 100 offices of
a group similar to the banned Falung Gong spiritual movement after declar-
ing it a cult: http://CNN.com/2000/ASIANOW/east/01/31/religion.china.reut/
Also see: http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000131/02/int-china-banned-sect
: Would you rather conquer China with religion/meditation, computers/capital
or troops/weapons? Is China worth conquering? Would'ya rather just drain it?
# Beijing police detain Falun Gong members, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563729488-dd3
# Also: U.S.-based Chinese scholar freed, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563728481-2cb
# And: Desperate migrants flee China, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563722726-965
# CHINA CRACKS DOWN - Drunken pirates sing ditty, head for firing squad:
www.scmp.com/News/Front/Article/FullText_asp_ArticleID-20000129021409756.asp
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# Using glowing frogs to probe eye genetics. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Remember
when you were young and couldn't sleep at night because you were afraid of
glowing, green-eyed creatures? Perhaps your parents told you they didn't
exist to ease your troubled mind. They were wrong. Researchers are mixing
a gene from a frog that controls where a protein is active with a green
florescent protein known as GFP from a jellyfish. This unique biological
blending creates frogs with eyes -- and nervous systems -- that literally
glow a bright, neon green. http://news.excite.com/news/uw/000128/tech-186
: Would you like to be gene-spliced so your nerves and eyes glow? What color
would you prefer? Should we all glow? Should we be color-coded according to
our religious/political/cultural/gender preferences? Would we all be easier
to ID & control? Have you color-coded any subversives/heretics/queers/punks
lately? Was it easy? Will it become a fashion statement? Is it rilly kewl?
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