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> NASA ANNOUNCES COMPLETION OF 'SPACE PLANE' LAUNCH PORT. NASA and Lockheed
Martin announced the completion of a space flight center that could usher in
an age of cheaper, more frequent space travel. A small "spaceport" proto-
type, the 30-acre center is dramatically different from other launch sites.
Operational by 2004: www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9903/05/x.33.update/index.html
: Are neighborhood spaceports too big? Are backyard launch sites better?
Can you make a profit running small spaceports? Will the Mafia take over?
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# There's A Mystery Object Not Far From The Earth. (New Scientist) A CHUNK
of rock some 50 metres across has been found circling the Sun in an orbit
close to Earth's. The object, discovered recently by an automated asteroid-
hunting telescope in New Mexico called Linear, is probably a chip off the
Moon, say astronomers. http://www.anomalous-images.com/news/news369.html
: Is the alien mothership hiding behind this or a similar chunk? Should we
blast it, just to be safe? Who's throwing moonchips at us? Are moonchips
better or worse than cowchips? Should we blast cowchips too? Why not?
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*** U.S. probing reported China spying. WASHINGTON (AP) - The Clinton
administration said it is investigating reports of Chinese espionage in
the U.S. nuclear weapons program and has increased security at plants to
prevent recurrences. The New York Times reported that China stole U.S.
nuclear secrets from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico in
the 1980s that helped it develop technology to miniaturize nuclear bombs.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558700577-0f6
*** Also: China may have stolen nuke secrets,
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558695376-284
And http://www.anomalous-images.com/news/news375.html
: Did China steal Roswell/UFO secrets too? Why don't ETs help the Chinese?
What nuclear secrets would you like to steal? Would you sell them? To who?
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*** Mormons put family history on Web. SALT LAKE CITY (AP) The Mormon church
says it will put at least some of its family-history archive - the world's
largest - on the World Wide Web. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints posted a statement on its official Web site, www.lds.org. One leader
said last year the church has archived the names of 13 billion people from
110 countries. "There are millions and millions of records just in their
International Genealogy Index alone, and millions more in their ancestral
files, and both of those are electronic databases" - see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558699916-93e
# Microsoft admits to keeping huge secret database on Windows users:
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/03/biztech/articles/07soft.html
http://www.cnn.com/US/9903/07/AM-Microsoft-Privacy.ap/index.html
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558710335-4a3
http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/18315.html
http://lists.essential.org/1995/info-policy-notes/msg00151.html
: Do you worry more about Microsoft or Mormon databases on you and your
family? How about other corporate or gov't archives? Who do you trust?
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*** Brazil court creates hermit zone. RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) A Brazilian court
created a 37-square-mile reservation in the Amazon to safeguard an Indian
hermit who lives there. Brazil issued the order to protect the man, who is
in his 30s, from loggers, ranchers, farmers and others who occupy the
Amazon. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558713682-fa5
: Would you like your own reservation? Should all hermits and cults have
reservations? Where can we put Mormons, ESTs, Scientologists, UFOlogists?
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Y2K-arama:
*** NYSE tests Y2K readiness. NEW YORK (AP) World financial markets were
in their usual Saturday slumber, but stock traders hustled on the littered
floor of the New York Stock Exchange as if it was a typical weekday session.
This was the start of a two-month series of tests by the securities industry
to determine whether its computer systems will be bitten by the year 2000
bug. The preliminary results were "better than expected" - see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558701038-244
*** Also: Globe making progress on Y2K bug, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558694531-c30
# Americans Urged To Stock Up Before Y2K Strikes:
http://www.anomalous-images.com/news/news371.html
# Wall Street Y2K Test, Part II:
http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/18302.html
# AIR TRAVEL TERROR. Air traffic control systems are way behind in Y2K
repairs. We're sure not going to travel on 1-1-00. Sit it out in Hawaii:
http://www.y2kculture.com/reality/19990308.travel.html
# CARTOONISTS FIND NEW GAG. Without Monica and Linda to rip into anymore,
what are political cartoonists to do? Y2K gags, of course. Duh, original:
http://www.y2kculture.com/arts/19990308.cartoonists.html
# Y2K MEDIA MADNESS. Our cartoon hero, Chip 'n Little, goes on TV. They
film his canned food stash. Guess what happens next. As if we cared:
http://www.y2kculture.com/cartoons/19990304.tv.html
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SkeptiLinks:
# Fixing the Weather. Weather modification has become a growth business.
http://www.anomalous-images.com/news/news366.html
> FILMMAKER STANLEY KUBRICK [Clockwork Orange, 2001, Dr.Strangelove] DEAD
AT 70. http://cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Movies/9903/07/kubrick.obit/index.html
@ One-Eyed Aliens! Suicide Booths! Mom's Old-Fashioned Robot Oil! Peering
inside Matt Groening's brain: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.02/
@ SteamShovel Press - Conspiracy news: http://www.umsl.edu/~skthoma/
@ Truth about the Great Pyramid: www.users.bigpond.net.au/peterb/loon
@ Grampa meets ETs: http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Quadrant/7233
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