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# Scientists Snap Deep Space Blast. (BBC) For the first time scientists
have captured 'live' one of the most powerful explosions in the universe.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_263000/263880.stm
# Relevant Stories: Hubble v Big Bang:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_202000/202255.stm
# What caused the biggest explosion ever seen?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_109000/109738.stm
# Recreating the big bang
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_102000/102802.stm
# Seeing stars after a big bang
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_88000/88533.stm
# Related Sites: BATSE: http://www.batse.com/
# Detecting bursts: http://cossc.gsfc.nasa.gov/gamma/new_win/nw9.html
# Compton Gamma Ray Observatory:
http://ssdoo.gsfc.nasa.gov/education/curricula/GRO_Ed_Brfs.html
# History of gamma-ray bursts:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/grbhist.html
: Is this evidence of neutron stars colliding or being sucked into black
holes, or galactic deities or civilizations at war, or just cosmic cought?
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# GENETIC ENGINEERING: WHY TAMPERING WITH MOTHER NATURE IS A RISKY BUSINESS.
It starts with a tiny seed and it ends with an imperiled global ecosystem.
Recent developments in bioengineering give corporate giants the ability to
control world food supplies and disturb the genetic fabric of all life on
earth. For fun and profit - http://www.gardeners.com/actionupdates.html
@ Relevant information: Greenpeace www.greenpeace.org
@ Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI) www.rafi.org
@ The Union of Concerned Scientists www.ucsusa.org
@ Mothers and Others www.igc.apc.org/mothers
@ A SEED Europe www.antenna.nl/aseed/monsanto
# California considers human cloning. (BBC) The state hosting many of the
world's leading biotechnology companies has set up a formal advisory com-
mittee to study the implications of human cloning. Who clones whom? See
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_263000/263956.stm
# Ban DDT says wildlife group. (BBC) Wildlife campaigners say the chemical
DDT is so dangerous it should be banned worldwide. Agribiz or ecocide - see
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_262000/262698.stm
: How far can we go with reengineering genomes and ecosystems before 1) it
all collapses, 2) we have to leave the planet, and/or 3) beneficient gods
and/or aliens step in to set us right? Any other possibilities? What? Why?
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# Siberia registers minus 68F. MOSCOW, Russia (UPI) Baby, it's cold outside!
Weather officials have placed Siberia's temperature at the end of January at
minus 55.6 Celsius (minus 68 Fahrenheit) a once in a century reading. Baby
light my fire - http://nt.excite.com/news/u/990127/09/international-cold
: Is this a result of global warming, El Nino, project HAARP, psychotemporal
imbalances, Zetan cold-rays, voodoo run amok, divine will, or carelessness?
# After El Ni�o and La Ni�a: Experts bet on return to normalcy and
try to extend vision. http://www.msnbc.com/news/235397.asp
: Can climate "return to normalcy" in an era of global warming? What will be
the normalizing mechanism(s): reduced greenhouse gasses, Gaian homeostasis,
big orbiting sunshields, divine/alien intervention, global heat pumps, luck?
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# Science vs. media? Author calls for truce. Michael Crichton urged
scientists to foster their potential media stars rather than tearing
them down. http://www.msnbc.com/news/235178.asp
: Is a good PR/ad/media campaign all the scientific community needs? Really?
# Renewed hope for predicting earthquakes. But it will take more data,
more insight, more money. http://www.msnbc.com/news/235559.asp
: Is money, insight and data all the scientific community needs? What else?
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> SUN LETS JINI OUT OF THE BOTTLE. Sun Microsystems unveiled its Jini tech-
nology, which will - if it succeeds - make access to hardware devices on a
network as transparent as accessing information on the World Wide Web.
http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9901/26/jini.idg/index.html
: Is total hardware/software control the ultimate goal of the NWO? Who else?
> Y2K TESTING - AN INSIDE STORY. Dugway has something to prove. First, It
has to prove its proof is provable. It has to prove, to itself and to the
Pentagon, that its mass of computers running that test will not lock up, or
turn the wrong century after the hats and horns go silent at midnight, New
Years Eve. http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9901/26/lefevre/index.html
> FEDERAL STORAGE DILEMMA LOOMS. As the US gov't works on fixing computer
systems for the Y2K bug, another information technology crisis is building:
whether all the data that federal computers generate can be preserved into
the next century. www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9901/26/fedstor.idg/index.html
: Is total control, total storage, total survival possible? Should it be?
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HotLink-o-Rama:
@ Very suspicious fractal images: http://members.aol.com/jrubu/noyes.htm
@ Life on Earth comes from space? http://www.panspermia.org/index.htm
@ Faith & Reason Ministries Web site: http://www.faithreason.org
@ Records of Past Civilizations - http://www.habtheory.com/111.htm
@ Liber vel Dropas Orbis: http://www.brotherblue.org/libers/olddisks.htm
@ Internet Resources Newsletter: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/irn.html
@ The Metaphysical Enquirer: www.angelfire.com/me/lucianarchy/enq.html
@ Stanford Metaphysics Research Lab: http://mally.stanford.edu/index.html
@ Suspicious Creationist Credentials FAQ:
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/credentials.html
@ Talk.Origins Archive's Creationism FAQs:
http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/faqs-creationists.html
@ Alien Abductions Inc.: http://www.alienabductions.com/index2.html
@ E.H.Wollmann P.M.A.F.A. Astrological Consulting: www.astroconsulting.com
@ Wollmann Exposed: http://www.sidaway.demon.co.uk/skeptic/wollmann.html
@ Operation Hermes: http://www.thenoiseroom.com/egypt/giza6.htm
@ Star-Pyramid Correlation: http://www.thenoiseroom.com/egypt/giza5.htm
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