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# Alien hunters back on track. (BBC) Project Phoenix, the most sensitive and
comprehensive hunt for alien intelligence ever, is back on the trail. A dual
observing session is now underway, linking the huge dish at Arecibo, Puerto
Rico and Jodrell Bank, Cheshire, UK. Millions and millions of channels - see
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_300000/300916.stm
@ Links: Seti Institute: http://www.seti-inst.edu/
@ Jodrell Bank Seti: http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/research/seti
# Also: ET call Earth:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_265000/265937.stm
# Largest alien-hunting telescope planned:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_275000/275896.stm
# Search for life on Mars with your computer:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_112000/112768.stm
: What is your favorite method of locating aliens? Do you have ET DETECTOR
software installed yet? If not, how will you know when aliens approach you?
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# Computer Program Reads Faces. A computer program has been trained to
distinguish among a number of facial cues, helping to sort false from
genuine expressions. What's more, the program performs as well as a
psychologist trained to read faces and markedly better than human non-
experts. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/03/990322061419.htm
: Would this program be a good lie-detector? Could you fool a computer? Do
you want to? Are your facial expressions controlled by you, the CIA, ETs?
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# World Population Seen At 9 Bln By 2050. UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) Earth's
population, expected to reach six billion in October, will be nearly nine
billion by the year 2050, according to the latest UN estimate. "I hope we
are wrong" - http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990323/00/international-population
: Where would you put all those guys? Can they be flown to Mars fast enough?
When will our herd be large enough for the alien shepherds? Are we prime?
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> Pilgrims begin rituals before start of hajj. MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) -
Muslim pilgrims clothed in white began the ritual circling of the sacred
Kaaba stone structure in the holy city of Mecca. The annual pilgrimage, or
hajj, begins on Friday. Last year, about 180 pilgrims died when a stampede
broke out as pilgrims were performing the "stoning the devil" ritual. A sim-
ilar stampede in 1994 left 270 dead. During the 1997 hajj, fires driven by
high winds tore through a sprawling, overcrowded tent city at Mina outside
Mecca, trapping and killing more than 340 pilgrims and injuring 1,500. Holy
hotcakes - see http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/meast/9903/22/AM-Saudi-Hajj.ap/
: What is your favorite religious ritual? Are you willing to die in that or
another ritual? If your deity wants you to die, would you object/struggle?
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*** Study: Caffeine may be good for you. LOS ANGELES (AP) - Caffeine is not
addictive for most people and has little effect on human health. No, really.
Drinking up to three cups of coffee a day has no effect on the part of the
brain responsible for addiction. And it may actually be good for you. If
you're a rat. Moderate consumption increases energy and renders addiction
"quite unlikely." www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558905712-238
: Do you avoid beneficial alkaloids? Are toxins better? Does caffeine block
or enhance mind-control strategies? Have you ever hallucinated on caffeine?
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# Christians pray for rain and get it! (BBC) Christians in Lesotho who gath-
ered to pray for rain had to seek shelter from the deluge as they went home
from church. King Letsie had called for a day of prayer after a prolonged
drought in the southern African kingdom, which relies heavily on subsistence
agriculture. The local weather office predicts more rain is on the way.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_300000/300648.stm
# Also: Pakistanis pray for rain:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_246000/246054.stm
: If you get what you pray for, is it coincidence, divine will, punishment,
trickiness, fate, CIA mental manipulation, meaningless, magic, addictive?
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# Big Bang Theory Challenged. An Australian-led team of astronomers has
challenged conventional Big Bang theory by finding that large numbers of
stars may be living unseen in the space between the galaxies. "All these
extra stars mean that there is too much normal ('baryonic') matter in the
Universe to fit well with the current version of the Big Bang theory."
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/03/990322174626.htm
: Has this extra matter been concealed from us, and if so, by whom, and why?
What would you do with the extra stars? Could you sell them for a discount?
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# Tiny Molecular-Scale Devices Mean Faster Computers. Future generations of
faster, smaller computers and information processing devices may owe their
existence to new, tiny molecular devices. The devices -including a
five-molecule-long wire that measures just 9-billionths of a meter end to
end - could help engineers make computer circuits up to 100 times smaller
than current sizes. That's important, because the smaller the circuitry, the
faster the computer. "We're taking information processing into the molecular
realm." http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/03/990323050945.htm
# Also: Simple Method Will Help Test Theories About Nanotubes:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/03/990323045958.htm
: If we can build logic gates out of molecules, how powerful would a planet-
sized computer be? Would this be indistinguishable from a deity? D'ya care?
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SkeptiLinks:
# Church Threatens Bank Of Scotland Over Alliance With Televangelist:
http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/99/03/21/stiscosco010
# EnCRyPtiON: more than just complex algorithms:
http://www.ednmag.com/reg/1999/031899/06df2.cfm
* Chernobyl disaster guides balloon - wind patterns predicted:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558902144-110
# Researchers Demonstrate How Marijuana-Like Chemicals Work In The Brain:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/03/990323050735.htm
* Speedtraps: www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558900966-d54
@ Documents on the arts and humanities: http://www.eserver.org
@ Secret Gov't Technology: www.anomalous-images.com/text/speech.html
@ Antigravity Spaceplane: www.linkline.com/personal/tkadams/tr-3b.htm
@ Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining & Granular-Soft Computing:
http://ain2.ai.csse.yamaguchi-u.ac.jp/rsfdgrc99
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