-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991204a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE THE ENTIRE BULLETIN WHEN YOU REPLY; CUT/PASTE, EH? * No lycanthropes or theriomorphs were harmed to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Pyramids of Memphis & a Tomb: http://www.mjt.org/exhibits/hieroglyphs.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # NASA PROBE SILENT AFTER MARS LANDING: zapped by Reptoids. NASA controllers will try again Saturday to reach the agency's latest Mars probe, which has failed to contact controllers on Earth since its landing Friday afternoon. The next chance the spacecraft will have to reach its controllers at JPL will be after 8 p.m. Saturday (11 p.m. EST). Controllers are prepared for the possibility that the probe would not begin transmitting immediately. 11-month mission: http://cnn.com/1999/TECH/space/12/04/mars.lander.02/ # Mars Watchers Hold Breath As Probe Stays Silent: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991203/19/news-space-mars # Nasa hopeful despite Mars silence. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_549000/549791.stm : How many Mars missions must the ETs zap before we humans give up trying to leave Earth, sink into despair on our overcrowded planet, and self-destruct? @ Links - SpaceRef.com: http://www.spaceref.com/ @ Mars Polar Lander: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msp98/ @ Exploring Mars: http://www.exploringmars.org/mission/mpl _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # US doomsday cult corralled in Greece. RAFINA, Greece - Special security forces rounded up at least 16 suspected members of an alleged American doomsday cult Friday, as part of a larger crackdown on the group ahead of the new millennium. "Concerned Christians" had expired permits - see www.nando.net/noframes/story/0,2107,500064530-500106793-500486514-0,00.html # Bethlehem starts millennium celebrations. (BBC) Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat launches celebrations in the town where Jesus is believed to have been born 2,000 years ago. Or 2,004 years ago. Or 2,006 years ago. Or... http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_549000/549683.stm : Is this a good season for doomsday? Will 1/1/2000 be a good day to die? Do you expect to see great/ominous/glorious/tedious/average things on 1/1/2000? @ Links - Bethlehem 2000: http://www.unesco.org/drg/papp/Bethlehem2000/ @ Visit Palestine: http://www.visit-palestine.com/bet/places/places.htm @ Holy Land Churches: http://www.al-bushra.org/holyland/0holylnd.htm @ Palestinian National Authority: http://www.pna.net/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # NSA spying on Americans. The privacy watchdog group Electronic Privacy Information Center today filed a lawsuit in federal court that aims to force the National Security Agency to release sensitive documents thought to contain evidence of surveillance operations against U.S. citizens. http://www.fcw.com/pubs/fcw/1999/1129/web-lawsuit-12-3-99.html : If Murkans can't trust their own spies to spy on them, who CAN we trust? Would you rather be spied on by foreigners, or by your own fellow-citizens? # The Chips Are Coming. Implanted biochips could be the tool of Big Brother, but they are more likely to become the treatment of choice of physicians of the 21st century. http://www.accessexcellence.org/AB/IWT/biochip.html # Time Enough? Consequences of Human Microchip Implantation - Legal Analysis: http://www.fplc.edu/risk/vol8/fall/ramesh.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Precise Genetic Control Of Plant Maturation Achieved. A gene that speeds up the maturation process in plants, resulting in earlier development and flowering, has been isolated by scientists at The Salk Institute. The scientists also describe how to fine-tune the process, so breeders one day could determine how fast or slow they want a plant to pass through its various growth phases. http://unisci.com/stories/19994/1203995.htm : When will such control be possible for animals, including humans? How fast /slow would you like to grow/live? If you grow slowly enough, will you live forever? Are you ready for immortality? Will you ever be? Will you be bored? # WOULD YOU EAT STEAK OFF THE PETRI DISH INSTEAD OF THE HOOF? Scientists have found how to "grow" a steak from a few cells - creating the world's first humanely produced meat. But will vegetarians go for it - steak from a petri dish? www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=22902 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ ARE YOU REALLY A WEREWOLF? Lycanthropy is held by some to be just an inte- resting myth, and to others as a means of explaining their worldview; with many gradations of belief in-between. I personally have never seen a man transform physically into an animal, and cannot do it myself; but I don't rule the possibility out. When folks here call themselves werewolves, they usually mean they find the characteristics of lycanthropy intriguing and see examples of such in themselves. What those characteristics are and the extent to which they manifest themselves are, again, very personal & will no doubt vary from individual to individual. And there are other reasons you may have hairy palms: ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/faqs/werewolves/core-faq : Are you werewolvish, vampiric, frankensteinish? Why did Madeline Kahn die today? Will everyone who worked in/on werewolf/vampire/etc films be taken by undead entities? Would you rather be undead, unalive, unconscious, unborn?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: # WTO ENDS CONFERENCE WITH DEADLOCK: http://cnn.com/1999/US/12/04/wto.02/ and: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_549000/549439.stm # IRANIAN CLERICS BOYCOTT U.S. MEETING IN PROTEST - Treatment "inhuman and insulting": http://cnn.com/1999/WORLD/meast/12/03/iran.us.clerics.reut/ # One giant leap - Daredevil parachutes from Rio's Christ statue - survives: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_549000/549947.stm # Ocean triumph - US lawyer first woman to row Atlantic - sharks queasy: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_548000/548606.stm @ Best Lopsided War of The Millennium: The Spanish-American War. Hey, THEY started it! http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/m991102.html @ Best Thing We Should Probably Never Do Again of the Millennium: Use nuclear bombs on folks. http://scalzi.com/whatever/m991203.html @ Best "Little" Invention of the Millennium: Punctuation. Think about it. http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/m991129.html @ Best Use of the Brain of the Millennium: Cryptanalysis. Because it's harder than it looks: http://scalzi.com/whatever/m991201.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Don't worry, nothing can go wron..." --anon, RIP * Rev. Ric Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.da.ru * FAX: 603-415-3736 * Fringe * Science * Faith * Sex/Drugs * UFO/PSI/Y2K * Conspiracy * * email INFO or SUBSCRIBE SKEPTICHAT to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * (sorry, I can't answer all email - but thanks for your feedback) * SkeptiChat/News archives: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/sc/files.htm * THE OFFICIAL MAILING LIST OF THE *SEVENTY*SEVENTH* MILLENNIUM!! 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