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@ The Crude Thesaurus: http://khopesh.iwarp.com/crude.html
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# Designing babies: The future of genetics. (BBC) The power to change the
shape and destiny of the human species - to design babies to order - will
be within the grasp of genetic scientists in just a couple of decades.
Cloning babies is strictly banned in the UK -- but watch what happens:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_590000/590919.stm
: Have you ordered/designed/cloned any babies lately? Was your order satis-
factory? Did you have fries with that order? Would you rather order babies
from public/private labs, magicians, aliens, robots, me? Who are the most
satisfactory baby designers/cloners/producers? Do you have a longterm lease?
# Playing With Nature In a High-Tech Future: genetic manipulation today.
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/2000-01/06/002l-010600-idx.html
# Centers To Breed Mice With Human-Like Gene Variants That Modify Their
Responses To Environmental Factors And The Repair Of Damaged DNA - see
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/01/000105044046.htm
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@ Just Passing Through. After sixteen years of sky watching in Ontario, my
arrival here on the west coast in 1970 suddenly opened up a new field of
aerial activity, namely meteors, fireballs, bolides. I know this to be
true, because the planetarium always said so. http://caus.org/pn010600.htm
: Do UFOs follow you around? Do you pay attention to them? Do they pay any
attention to you? Do you feel ignored, slighted, if they don't respond? Why?
# Golden Dish-Type Craft with a Dome on the Top http://caus.org/mu010600.htm
# Canadian Crop Circle Summary Report 1999 http://www.caus.org/ccr010500.htm
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# Satellites To Stop Speeding Cars. Drivers may be automatically stopped
from speeding by an electronic device to be fitted to all cars within 10
years. The Deputy Prime Minister will be told that extensive trials have
been such a success that a phased introduction of speed restricters would
also dramatically reduce road congestion and cut pollution. You will go
how we want you to go: http://www.sightings.com/politics6/speeding.htm
: Should govt control your transportation options? Is your automobile an
autonomous republic? Will the sats be controlled by humans, aliens, me?
@ All sorts of neat stuff at Remote Sensing <http://www.remotesensing.org/>
including a large image manipulation tool and a tool called geotrans for
doing coordinate translation between datums. Downloads are available here:
http://www.remotesensing.org/download/ And don't forget to map everything
out at: http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Cartography/
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# SHUTTLE MAY BE LAUNCHED TO REPAIR FALTERING SPACE STATION. NASA wonks are
close to giving final approval to launch an added space shuttle mission in
March to perform critical repairs & maintenance to the fledging Interna-
tional Space Station & keep it safely in orbit until a permanent crew
arrives - perhaps as late as next fall. The first Russian component of the
space station, the Zarya space "tugboat," has been in orbit since November
1998. http://cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/01/05/space.station.01/index.html
: Would you rather build/repair/hijack a space station? Have you hijacked a
space station lately? Is it easy? Did your alien masters help/hinder/laugh?
# Where's My Orgasmatron? Man did not conquer space because it's too boring.
Yawn: http://www.montrealgazette.com/editorial/pages/000103/3380238.html
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@ "Q & A on mind control": http://www.factnet.org/rancho2.htm#one
@ MindControl: How to watch for mc groups on the web and other places:
http://members.aol.com/smartnews/page/Sample-Issue-30.htm
@ Persuasion and Brainwashing Techniques Being Used on the Public Today:
http://www.magnet.ch/serendipity/sutphen/brainwsh.html
@ "Propaganda Techniques," (pictures may be triggering)
http://carmen.artsci.washington.edu/propaganda/contents.htm
: Are you mind-controlled, or are you a controller? If you think you're a
controller, how do you know for sure? Maybe you're mind-controlled too, eh?
# Secret Mind Manipulations Of 'Pokemon' Exposed! Are hidden messages in the
soundtrack for the Pokemon TV show teaching violent behavior to children?
Analysis shows clearly audible references to guns and dysfunction in the
speech of the show's characters. Are these messages appropriate for a
young viewing audience? What values are being taught through children's
television programming? http://www.sightings.com/politics6/poke.htm
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SkpetiBriefs - YOU think up some questions, eh?
# 'Professor Death' Defends Views on Baby Euthanasia. LONDON (Reuters) Peter
Singer has been described as a "Nazi," an "enemy of civilisation" and "the
most dangerous man in the world." He is also accused of advocating infant-
icide. So? http://news.excite.com/news/r/000106/00/science-ethics-singer
# A FAILING GRADE FOR SCIENCE TEXTBOOKS. An assessment of widely-used
science textbooks found them all to be inadequate. Cretinists winning:
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=17966
# HOW DOLPHINS HEAR WITHOUT EARS. THE mystery of how dolphins and seals can
hear without external ears has been solved. They are "acoustic fatheads":
http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19991225/nshorts.html#16
# ANOTHER CELL PHONE SAFETY WORRY. In Canada, you can't use a cell phone in
a gas station, for fear that the cell phones might spark and ignite gas
vapors. http://healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=17965
# Scientists Developing Wearable Computer That Learns - You should too:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/01/000106082911.htm
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EDITOR'S NOTE: OK, so it was more than a head cold - I was part of the Great
California Y2K Flu Epidemic. Damn, I've been down all YEAR. Much better now,
and hopefully you won't have any more of these annoying Editor's Notes. All
your contributions of potions, incantations & recipes/remedies seem to have
helped, along with your suggestions that I a) scrub my implants, b) pray to
a health deity, c) focus my vibes, d) cleanse my chakras, e) imbibe certain
genetically-modified products, and f) give up. Well, SOMETHING worked. --Ric
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