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@ BLOOD, the film: http://www.eggthings.com/blood/
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# Walking robot may make its wearer incredibly powerful. She _Is_ Rambo:
INFLUENCED by the robotic "exoskeleton" worn by Sigourney Weaver in the
1986 movie Aliens, engineers in Australia are building a two-legged
industrial robot that will be able go places and do things no forklift
truck ever could. http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19991120/newsstory2.html
: D'ya want an exoskeleton? D'ya want personal power? Will you need lubing?
# Robotic space outposts predicted. PASADENA, CA (AP) In a lecture sounding
more like SciFi than science, a NASA/JPL wonk said the next era of space
exploration will involve missions that last for years rather than weeks
and will eventually pave the way for manned probes to the planets. Rovers
will colonize Mars, constructing robotic outposts & probing every nook &
cranny: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562186447-69c
: D'ya wanna be a robot so you can explore Mars? Do robots have all the fun?
@ Robohoo! http://www.robohoo.com/
@ Robotics Sites: http://www-robotics.cs.umass.edu/cgi-bin/robotics/
@ Plant Automation: http://www2.plantautomation.com/content/homepage/
$ RobotBooks.Com: http://www.robotbooks.com/
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@ A MILITARY LEVEL OF INTELLIGENCE. We need to acknowledge a few things as
facts & assume a couple others. 1. Our universe is vast; yes, there are
other life forms in it. 2. Our planet is not completely explored from the
bottom of the seas to every part of all landmasses. Due to this, there are
many life forms to be discovered. 3. Unknown air/space/ocean craft appear
in our skies and the water ways. These are unknown to the majority of the
people of earth. 4. The US Military has been & continues to work on newer
faster, more efficient & deadly air/space/ocean craft. 5. Other countries
in the world continue also to advance their knowledge of & production of
advanced air/space/ocean craft. 6. Yes, air/space/ocean craft have been
recovered and are in the hands of govts or secret agencies worldwide. 7.
Yes, backward technology is in use and has been for some time. 8. Yes,
some on earth has had & continues to have contact with other intelligent
life forms not of our planet. http://www.caus.org/mc112099.htm
: Is there intelligent life on/in/under/above Earth? Are you an intelligent
lifeform, not of this Earth? Why did you come here? What are your goals? Do
you want to have sex? Is the US military your plaything? Do we disgust you?
# A "Not So Major Event": http://www.caus.org/mc112299.htm
# Hovering Green Fireballs: http://www.caus.org/mu112299.htm
# Confirmation - Alien Contact: http://www.caus.org/pc112299.htm
# 5 Discs & Physical Traces in 1971: http://www.caus.org/mu112099.htm
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# Volcanic Flashback on Io. (NASA) With another Io flyby less than a week
off, JPL releases new data showing towering mountains, sizzling hot spots,
& enormous lava lakes on Jupiter's fiery moon. And some fools say there's
no Hell: http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast19nov99_1.htm
And: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_529000/529511.stm
@ LINKS - Nasa Io Flyby: http://www.ioflyby.com/
@ Project Galileo: http://galileo.jpl.nasa.gov/
# New NASA probe to 'listen' to Mars. PASADENA, CA (AP) - A NASA spacecraft
set to land on Mars next month will attempt for the first time to capture
the sounds of the Red Planet - using a $15 microphone connected to a chip
commonly found in talking toys & phones. Unlike other instruments on the
$165 million Mars Polar Lander, the Mars Microphone is privately funded &
has no clearly defined scientific mission. Its purpose is simply to catch
the planet's noises, be they the whoosh of a dust devil, the crackle of
lightning or the whir of sand blowing through the thin atmosphere. Dead
silence is another possibility. Or the sound of alien tummies rumbling:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562187351-eb0
# Also: Are there any sounds on Mars? Will they be on the next .MP3?
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562192134-1ce
: Are you more interested in Martian sounds, Ionian vulcanism, the voices in
your head telling you to KILL KILL!!! or the sex-life of the spotted owl??
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AeroSpace News:
@ SpaceDaily: http://www.spacedaily.com/
@ NASA Human Spaceflight: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/
@ Aviation Week Online: http://www.awgnet.com/
@ Leading Edge: http://www.aerospacenews.com/pcast/daily.htm
@ Space Online: http://www.flatoday.com/space/
@ Defence Systems Daily: http://www.defence-data.com/index2/index2.htm
@ Defense Briefing: http://www.defensebriefing.com/
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# Hindus picket Baptist church. BOSTON(AP) Dozens of Hindus picketed outside
a church to assail a Southern Baptist Convention [SBC] prayer booklet that
said Hindus have "darkness in their hearts that no lamp can dispel." Simi-
lar guides have been distributed by the SBC asking Baptists to pray for
the conversion of Jews, Muslims, Catholics, Mormons, Lutherans & Quakers.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562196374-2a6
# Unity urged against Christianity. LUMBINI, Nepal (AP) -- 3 weeks after the
pope called for missionaries to spread Catholicism throughout Asia, Hindu
& Buddhist priests passed a resolution to unite against proselytizing. The
sense of crisis within Asian religions was evident throughout the confer-
ence at this small town close to Nepal's border with India, the birthplace
of Gautama Buddha. During the assembly, delegates publicly and privately
said they were concerned by the pope's comments. Many described conver-
sions as a "war against Hindus and Buddhists" and a "spiritual crime."
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562194429-7f4
: Does your belief system wage war against other systems? Is your faith like
a giant amoeba, mindlessly feeding on all around it, engorging on the fallen
husks of other amoebae, then fissioning into child-amoebae, fighting always?
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