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# Want A Pizza? Talk To Telepizza's New Machine. MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish
fast food firm Telepizza is hoping to revolutionize the world pizza market
with a new vending machine that catches its own customers and can take their
order in 10 languages. The machine detects passers-by and calls out "Fancy a
pizza?." For $1.80 it will then defrost and cook a modest sized pizza in a
minute and a half. Yummy - http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990325/10/odd-pizza
: Do you want robots soliciting your business? What if the robots start to
chase you around to sell you stuff? Is shooting such robots justifiable?
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# Smithsonian to keep Indian's remains. SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) An American
Indian delegation says the Smithsonian Institution will not turn over the
preserved brain of Ishi, California's most famous American Indian, to local
tribes. The Indians hoped to bury the brain in Tehema County, where Ishi's
now-extinct tribe once lived. But the Smithsonian says it can only hand over
the remains to tribes or individuals directly from or culturally affiliated
with the deceased. Ishi was the last member of a tribe of Indians who were
wiped out by California bounty hunters and disease around the turn of the
century. See http://nt.excite.com/news/u/990325/10/news-ishi
: Does your culture/religion/philosophy place spiritual or economic value on
old remains? What if the remains aren't related to you? What if they are?
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# UFOs, or a Light Show? Science Battles Wishful Thinking. (ABC) As humans
explore space, it’s reasonable to imagine that other beings in the universe
are doing the same. Meeting explorers from other planets have been a staple
of science fiction for decades. Videotapes from space shuttle missions have
persuaded some folks that NASA astronauts have already encountered alien
visitors. http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/ufo990217.html
: What's your favorite UFO explanation/apologia? Does your belief system
encompass UFOs? Have you been abducted/implanted/experimented lately? Why?
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# Netropolitan (New Scientist). NASA provides a graphic display of just how
crowded the skies have become. We are starting to clutter the skies of other
planets as well. http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19990320/netro.html
# And: Mars-struck postal worker maps Red Planet
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/mars23.html
# Simulation Reveals Very First Stars That Formed In The Universe. ATLANTA
Astronomers announced they have turned back the hands of time and taken a
look at the earliest structures that formed in the universe. "The very first
objects to form were low-mass clusters of metal-free stars that condensed in
the cores of dark-matter halos". Not "clumpuscules", brown dwarfs or black
holes as expected: http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/uiuc-srv032299.html
: Is knowing about planets worth cluttering their skies? Would you rather
explore reality by satellite, by simulation, from your home, or in person?
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> HUBBLE SURVEYS 6 SPIRAL GALAXIES. The Hubble Space Telescope has provided
scientists with a "photo essay" of 6 spiral galaxies, offering fresh views
of star birth. See http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9903/22/hubble.galaxies/
# Paranal power. (BBC) The second optical telescope to come online at the
Paranal Observatory in the Atacama desert, Chile, is already proving its
worth with stunning new images of the cosmos. Two more scopes planned -
see http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_303000/303936.stm
@ Link: European Southern Observatory: http://www.eso.org/
# And: Peering deep into space:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_178000/178290.stm
# A very good look at space:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_101000/101070.stm
: How deeply in space do you want to look? Do you go cross-eyed? Who looks
back? Would you rather see a star, name a star, be a star, squash a star?
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# The Hollywood Antichrist? Psychic Jeane Dixon Warned of Those With Jenni-
fer Jason Leigh’s Birth Date. (ABC) Famous psychic Jeane Dixon said the An-
tichrist was born on Feb. 5, 1962, and would begin his evil reign sometime
around the millennium. Thus far, actress Jennifer Jason Leigh is the only
person with that birthday to come to prominence. But she's foxy anyway -
see http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/wolffiles51.html
: Do you worship at Ms. Leigh's feet? Would you mind if she ushered in The
End Of The World? Would you have sex with an Antichrist? Safe or otherwise?
Are there one or more gods? Are there one or more antichrists? Do they orgy?
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SkeptiLinks:
# Seer Fails To Predict Penis Attack - permanent damage:
http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990325/10/odd-taiwan-penis
# Anti-Nudity Law Poses Puzzler - calculating percentages:
http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990325/10/odd-nudity
# Sex In Garage Proves Fatal For Two - totally gassed:
http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990324/20/odd-carbon
# Minister Tried For Marrying Gays - Methodist schism?
http://nt.excite.com/news/u/990325/11/news-samesex
# Tanjug News Agency of Yugoslavia: http://www.tanjug.co.yu/
# ITAR-TASS of Russia: http://www.itar-tass.com/itar-tass.htm
# St Petersburg Times of Russia: http://www.sptimes.ru/
# Moscow Times: http://www.moscowtimes.ru/
# E! Newsletter: http://www.eonline.com/Stuff/Newsletter
# KOSOVO WON'T BE TELEVISED - Int'l live TV links cut by police.
www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/politics/story/18691.html
# YUGOSLAV FREE RADIO SHUT DOWN - B92 silent, editors arrested.
www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/politics/story/18695.html
# Prehistoric Sharks Make Comeback:
abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/prehistoricsharks980807.html
# Ancient Fish May Go Extinct:
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/fish980819.html
# Fossils Point to Fishy Beginnings:
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/fishbones990219.html
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