-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991211c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 unborn or undead entities were hired to produce this bulletin. And?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ n a t u r a l i z e d -- http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/cultronix/mehran/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # MEASUREMENTS OF THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND (CMB) provide new evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. Growing forever? http://www.aip.org/enews/physnews/1999/split/pnu460-1.htm # Strong Evidence for a Flat Universe, and a Suggestion of a Cosmological Constant -- countergravitational "dark energy" that may fill the universe. http://enews.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/boomerang-power-spectrum.html : What's your favorite universe-shape? Have you shaped any universes lately? Do you prefer universes that grow, shrink, stabilize? Should they be spongy, lumpy, flat, curved, angled, quiet, noisy, colorful, prepaid, smelly, phat? # Getting Heavy: Perhaps the Newborn Universe Wasn't Just for Light- weights: http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19991211/newsstory13.html # Galactic Evolution Solved: www.news.wisc.edu/thisweek/view.msql?id=3438 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Wee-Gee-R-Us: @ Witchboard Central: All your Ouija board questions answered! http://members.tripod.com/~Ouija_/Witchboard.html @ Archie McPhee Ouija Board http://www.mcphee.com/products/classic/M5377.html @ Frequently asked questions on how to use a Ouija Board correctly. http://mccartneymultimedia.com/ouijasource/TheLight/ouijafaq.htm @ The Seth Story: http://www.geocities.com/~atheena/Maidens/seth1.html @ Ouija Board: http://members.aol.com/rstrm1/ouija.html @ Museum of Talking Boards: An Online Museum of Ouija Boards http://members.tripod.com/~Ouija_/index.html : Have you used a Ouija board lately? Is it an ancient divination tool, or was it invented in Chicago in 1890? Do you trust spirits? Do they trust you? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # An Invisible Dimension. SciFi makes travel thru extra dimensions look as easy as riding the subway, but physicists have never taken this seriously. Now a team posits a radical idea: We may indeed live in a world with more than three spatially infinite dimensions, yet the extra dimensions might be essentially imperceptible. For years researchers have discussed extra dimensions that might be "compactified" - curled up to a very small size - but no one thought that non-compact dimensions could exist without obvious effects on experiments. As an alternative to compactified dimensions, the team describes a scenario in which an extra, infinite dimension could have remained undetected so far. Gravitons: http://focus.aps.org/v4/st28.html : What's your favorite hidden dimension? Have you created any new dimensions lately? Where'd you put them? Are they hidden, visible, evasive, disruptive? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Y2K-a-Rama: # Y2K - What the National Guard is doing for New Year's Eve. If the world doesn't end right at the turn of the millennium, the FBI warns that militia groups and religious nuts might try to help it along. Really? http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/12/10/y2k/index.html # FBI spying run amuck? http://www.gwb.com.au/gwb/news/pc/bnai44.htm # Y2K - 100 Viruses: http://currents.net/newstoday/99/12/10/news1.html # Y2K - FEW GLITCHES http://cnn.com/1999/HEALTH/12/10/bc.healthyy2k.ap/ # Y2K Russian missiles 'millennium proof' - won't launch on 1/1/2000: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_555000/555732.stm # Y2K - Water supplies, sewage facilities are vulnerable - fill buckets, pee on a tree: http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/ctg864.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ### Full Moon a-comin' up <copied from alt.leb> ### This year will be the first full moon to occur on the winter solstice (Dec. 22, commonly called the first day of winter) in 133 years. Since a full moon on the winter solstice occurs in conjunction with a lunar perigee (point in the moon's orbit that is closest to Earth) the moon will appear about 14% larger than it does at apogee (the point in it's elliptical orbit that is farthest from the Earth). Since the Earth is also several million miles closer to the sun at this time of the year than in the summer, sunlight striking the moon is about 7% stronger making it brighter. Also, this will be the closest perigee of the moon of the year since the moon's orbit is constantly deforming. So, this will be a super-bright full moon, much more than usual and that hasn't happened this way for 133 years. Our ancestors 133 years ago saw this. Our descendants 100 or so years from now will see this again. (If the weather is clear and there is a snow cover where you live, it is believed that car headlights will be superfluous if you are out driving that night.) Don't forget to go outside on the winter solstice, and dance by the light of the moon!!! --Spiderwomon _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkpetiLinks: # Better Be Careful Whose Links You Click... A Utah judge says Net links to copyrighted stuff may be a legal no-no. What happened to the free-for-all Web? http://www.pathfinder.com/time/daily/0,2960,35814-101991210,00.html @ Whoring In Utopia - No matter how good it gets, somebody prostitutes themself: http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/cultronix/califia/whoring/ # WEN HO LEE INDICTED, ARRESTED IN LOS ALAMOS CASE - spying or just sloppy? http://cnn.com/1999/US/12/10/lee.indictment.02/index.html http://www.pathfinder.com/time/daily/0,2960,35824-101991210,00.html @ Earth Alert: http://www.discovery.com/news/earthalert/earthalert.html @ EcoMap: http://www.pathfinder.com/time/reports/environment/heroes/map/ @ EarthWatch: http://cnn.com/1999/NATURE/12/10/diary.planet/index.html # LAST OKLAHOMA CITY BOMB VICTIM TO BE INTERRED SATURDAY - 4 years later: http://cnn.com/1999/US/12/11/bombing.remains.ap/index.html @ Inside the Beast: The Machinic Phylum - A presentation on War in the Age of Intelligent Machines: http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/cultronix/sauer/ # Texas Instruments Unveils DSP-Based System-on-a-Chip Roadmap to Three Trillion IPS by 2010: http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/news/1999/99086.htm # Carbon Nanotubes Generate Full-Color, Flat Displays - replacing LCDs and CRTs: http://www.academicpress.com/inscight/12071999/grapha.htm # Small, Kinky World: http://helix.nature.com/nsu/991118/991118-1.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "I wanted to by born again, but Mum said no." --anon * Rev. 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