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# 'Nude Raiders' face legal action. (BBC) When Lara Croft did the Net with-
out even the trademark hotpants and rubber vest, her makers threatened legal
action. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_299000/299040.stm
# And: Lara Croft - cyber celebrity, cyberbabe:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_32000/32939.stm
# Licence to thrill - Lara Croft to be an ambassador for UK sci/tech:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_225000/225615.stm
@ Links: Tomb Raider Fan Site: http://www.eisa.net.au/~astro/
@ Tomb Raider - Eidos Interactive: http://www.tombraider.com/
@ Nude Raiders WebRing: http://www.bomis.com/rings/nudegamering/
: Do nude cyberbabes make good ambassadors? Are nude cyberbabes authentic
cultural artifacts, or products of alien or commie or CIA mind-control work?
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*** Finnish firm warn of April 26 computer virus. HELSINKI (Reuters) Finnish
encryption software and computer virus protection group Data Fellows warned
that a malicious virus threatens computers worldwide on April 26. The April
26 activation date is the 13th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster
and the eve of a major European information security exposition in London.
The CIH 2.1 virus - also called CIH. 1003 - can destroy a computer's hard
disk and the contents of Flash-BIOS memory chips. Still another damn bug -
see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558868982-13b
: Can/will you be immunized against CIH.1003? Against all the other viruses
around? Have you ever been attacked by a computer virus? How? Do they itch?
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# NASA team says other meteorites contain fossils of bacteria. HOUSTON (AP)
The NASA team that says it discovered microbial life in a Martian meteor now
claims two other meteors contain similar fossilized remnants. Life all over,
see http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/mars990319.html
and http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9903/19/mars.life.ap/index.html
@ Links: Exploring Mars: http://www.exploringmars.org/
@ Mars Global Surveyor: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/index.html
: If we searched all meteors and asteroids, how many would contain bacteria?
How many would be from Mars? What would be the other sources? How d'ya know?
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# Chip Off the Old Rock? (ABC) Data from the Lunar Prospector spacecraft
supports the theory that the moon broke away from Earth in a massive
interplanetary collision. Similar mineral compositions was one clue.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/moonsplit990316.html
and http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_298000/298157.stm
@ Links: Lunar Prospector: http://lunar.arc.nasa.gov/
@ Lunar FAQ: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/moonfact.html
@ The origin of the Moon: http://www.psi.edu/projects/moon/moon.html
@ Moon origin simulation: http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/Outreach/origin/
: Was Luna smashed off from Terra, or did it break off of its own accord, or
did it ooze off, or did deities or demons or aliens separate the planetoids?
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# When we were worms. (BBC) A curious group of flatworms are helping to
explain the evolution of animals like humans that have a left and a right
side. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_299000/299010.stm
# Also: Small worm makes history:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_232000/232608.stm
# Mechanism for evolution described:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_222000/222096.stm
# Fossil evidence of worms over one billion years ago:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_183000/183596.stm
: Are humans, biologically, spiritually, morally superior to worms? Does
being a worm mean never having to say you're sorry... or anything else?
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# Ancient tomb captured the winter sun. (BBC) A mysterious prehistoric tomb
has a "light box" cut into its roof which allowed a shaft of light to herald
the start and end of winter. Solar-powered time/date reckoning mechanism -
see http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_298000/298999.stm
# Also: The sound of the Neolithic:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_72000/72494.stm
@ Links: The Crantit dig: http://www.orkneyislands.com/crantitdig/index.html
@ Newgrange: http://www.stonepages.com/stones/Ireland/Inglese/Newgrange.html
@ Council for British Archeology: http://www.britarch.ac.uk/index.html
: Who thought this up: ancient Britons, Picts, Celts, Atlanteans, Lemurians,
Egyptians, Reptilioids? Could *you* have thought of this? Would you bother?
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# IRISH YOUTH SUICIDE SOARING. (NY Times) "Ireland has the fastest-growing
rate of youth suicide in the world, and almost one in four suicides occur
among those aged between 15 and 24" the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin said.
The fear of hell that once deterred suicidal people was disappearing. Since
1961, the Church has permitted suicide victims to be buried in holy ground.
http://www.scmp.com/news/template/World-Template.idc?artid=19990318020836047
: Is fear of hell the only thing that stops you from suiciding? Will changed
Church policies encourage you to off yourself? Is suicide productive? Fun?
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SkeptiLinks:
@ Winning The Cultural War - Charlton Heston: www.sm.org/news/heston.html
@ Clinton - the number of the Beast: http://becomingone.org/666.htm
# US Marine Corporal's Death Brings Clinton Body Count To 110:
http://www.dominionpost.com/archive/news/NEWS/MARINE/MARINE.HTM
* Clinton mocks press conferences, foreign leaders:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558863870-a98
# US House Minority Leader Gephardt Tied To White Supremacist Group:
http://38.201.154.103/articles/?a=1999/3/18/115139
* Court rejects school board prayer - apparent gov't endorsement of
religion: www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558861676-b89
* Iraqi factory made biological warfare agents:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558857646-93f
* Hong Kong man jailed for stealing, eating valuable pet tortoise:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558868171-eaa
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