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@ The Tree of Life: http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/phylogeny.html
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# Xian students fired up on Satan. (U-WIRE) PITTSBURGH. Outside the student
union at U.Pittsburgh, students staged a pep rally for the next big foot-
ball game; inside, members of the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship got
"fired up" for a whole other opponent: Satan. While Britney Spears' "Hit
Me Baby One More Time" and the Backstreet Boys' tune "I Want It That Way"
didn't make the cutoff in their duel with the devil, songs like "Shout to
the Lord" did. http://news.excite.com/news/uw/991101/university-273
# Man Offs Shaman, Eats Liver. PHNOM PENH (Reuters) A former Khmer Rouge
guerrilla shot & killed a witch doctor & ate his liver, blaming him for
the death of his 2 kids. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991104/07/odd-witch
: How do you deal with your paranormal opponents - singing at them, eating
them, ignoring them, praying a lot, offering sacrifices, offering them sex?
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# Brave New World Coming Up. LONDON (Reuters) In the century about to dawn,
contraception will be superfluous, the attention span will cease to exist
and two intelligent species will roam the earth. Sex will be just for lust
- babies will come from reproductive bank accounts - while phones & faxes
will be dumped in favor of direct mind-to-mind communication. And 'think'
your lights on & off: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991104/07/odd-future
# The future's not all bright - predictions of a dismal future for humans:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_504000/504682.stm
# AND - Vision of the future:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_472000/472796.stm
# Facing the future of science:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_380000/380307.stm
# Facing a remote control future?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_375000/375521.stm
: What're your most/east favorite futures? Is y'r sex just for lust already?
Do you communicate mentally? How many intelligent species does Earth need??
Will humans be among the future intelligenciae? Who will the aliens select?
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# Pentagon Actively Planning For War In Space. If the US ultimately deploys
space-based weaponry, not only would it break one of the great taboos of
the past 40 years, it could also transform the way America structures its
military and fights wars. http://usnews.com/usnews/issue/991108/space.htm
# The shadow of a Martian moon. (BBC) The shadow of a Martian moon has been
seen by the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. It ran back into its hole.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_503000/503729.stm
: Are you ready for war in space? Will you establish military bases on small
planetoids? Have you already? Will you cast a shadow? Do aliens help you???
# Chemtrail/Contrail Mystery Spraying Solved? Is This What's Going On?
http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/chemtr.htm
# US Has Been Spraying/Open Air Testing On Its Citizens For 50 Years:
http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/spray.htm
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# Scientist puts computer in control. (BBC) A cybernetics expert is planning
to hand over control of his body to a computer in the latest of his high
profile experiments. Professor Kevin Warwick is to have a silicon implant
inserted in his arm in an attempt to find out whether the computer will be
able to move his limbs by copying signals from his brain. And he plans a
similar experiment to see if a computer could control his emotions.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_503000/503552.stm
@ LINKS - Professor Kevin Warwick: http://www.cyber.rdg.ac.uk/K.Warwick/
@ Warwick's 1998 test: http://www.cyber.rdg.ac.uk/K.Warwick/WWW/fpage.htm
@ Dept of Cybernetics, Reading University: http://www.cyber.reading.ac.uk/
: Do you let machines/aliens/agents/deities/demons control your mind/body/
spirit? Are you really in control? Are you a controller? Are you sensuous?
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# NASA Task Force to Set Standards for ET Life. NASA has formed a task force
to establish how scientists evaluate evidence in the search for extrater-
restrial forms of life. Scientists currently are not certain if a unique
pattern found in a meteorite or rock sample can be considered biological,
rather than formed through some other process. Reptilioids offer few clues
to their presence: http://space.com:80/news/biomarkers_mars_991027.html
# Captured and hypnotized by aliens! (Salon) You've got your Pleiadians,
your reptilians, dolphinoids, serpent people, the Starseeds and a bunch
coming back in silicon bodies. And every darn one has a different agenda.
http://www.salonmagazine.com:80/people/feature/1999/11/03/aliens/
: What's your favorite ET lifeform? Has it abducted you lately? What's its
agenda? How can you tell? What's YOUR agenda? How can IT tell? Do you talk?
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# LANDER TO LISTEN FOR SOUNDS OF MARS. An idea first proposed by the late
Carl Sagan will manifeszt when NASA and the Planetary Society conduct an
unusual experiment aboard the Mars Polar Lander. The primary mission of
the Lander is to study the Martian environment. But the compact spacecraft
will also carry a tiny microphone, like those used in hearing aids, that
will give scientists and laypeople their first chance to hear what the
surface of Earth's closest neighbor sounds like. Sound files will be
online: http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9911/01/mars.microphone/
: What's your favorite extraterrestrial sound? On which planets do you most
want to evesdrop? Will Martians resent our intrusion? Will they retaliate??
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Y2K-a-Rama:
# The Russians Are Ready! Says the Russian official charged with making sure
nothing bad will happen on 1/1/00: "I can boldly declare that nothing any-
where near as terrible will happen as we are presently being frightened
with." Let's hope. http://www.wired.com/news/reuters/0,1349,32283,00.html
# Millennium Won't Plunge The World Into Darkness:
http://news.excite.com/news/r/991103/00/tech-ytwok-darkness
# Y2K - Expert Says Computer Viruses A Y2K Threat:
http://news.excite.com/news/r/991103/00/tech-yk-virus
# Y2K - Venezuela Says It Prepared For Y2K Threat:
http://news.excite.com/news/r/991103/00/tech-yk-venezuela
# Y2K - FAA Says U.S. Airports Y2K Ready:
http://news.excite.com/news/r/991102/06/tech-yk-airports
# Y2K - Canada Farms, Transit, Health Care Said Still Behind:
http://www.sightings.com/politics5/y2kcanadabehind_p.htm
# Y2K - NASA Wary... Discovery Will Not Fly At Rollover:
http://www.sightings.com/politics5/y2kshuttle_p.htm
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was lighting his Bunsen burner in the lab at the university, Enid Carp,
his wife of forty-two years, and a matron at the State Penitentary for
Tawdry Women, was conducting an unauthorized body cavity search for
contraband cosmetics?" --Peggy Baranowski
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