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@ Polytope: http://kojigen.gaia.h.kyoto-u.ac.jp/graphics/cone.jpeg
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# Alien Abductions - Parallels in contemporary accounts of abductions by
space aliens with European narratives of captivity by Indians and Abor-
iginals in early America and Australia. Whether you're abducted by aliens
or snatched by savages, your captivity story will likely echo current
public anxieties. Victims become anti-nuke, or eco-freaks - see
http://www.historytoday.com/article/article.cfm?article_id=1620
: Have you been abducted lately? Were you snatched by aliens, terrorists,
savages, cops/troops, kidnappers, giant ants? Do you echo current public
anxieties? Have your attitudes/politics/behaviours changed? Do you identify
with your abductors? Are your abductors admirable role models? Was abduction
a positive transformitive experience? Should everyone be abducted? How soon?
# The Vallejo, California Carnival Coverup: http://www.caus.org/pn020100.htm
@ Exploring African & Other Abductions: http://peer-mack.org/africa95.html
@ Why the Abduction Phenomenon Cannot Be Explained Psychiatrically - from
MIT Abduction Study Conference: http://www.peer-mack.org/mit92.html
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# EU ethics committee seeks approach to human cloning. Human cloning
represents an ethical line in the sand. Distasteful but necessary:
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2000/0131/hom32.htm
@ Why map a human? Will the new genetics really help us to get to grips
with the world? THERE are some awkward questions that most of us never get
round to asking. Who, for example, wants to appear naive by asking what
exactly we are doing all this human genome mapping for? And who really
benefits? http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opinion.jsp?id=ns2223104
: Have you mapped any genomes lately? Would you rather map genomes, mental
spaces, the interior of subatomic particles, the universe as a whole? Will
this mapping aid your cloning efforts? Would you rather clone mice, humans,
minds, atoms, galaxies, universes, demons/gods, aliens, me? Is it ethical?
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# Cuba boy has divine status for some. CORAL GABLES, Fla.(AP) In "The Boy of
the Dolphins" a Cuban painter depicts Elian Gonzalez swaddled (like baby
Moses) in a blue blanket and nestled inside an inner tube. Three dolphins
surround him as the hand of God manipulates puppet strings that lead the
child away from a red background symbolizing communism. "I ... think that
it has been a miracle from God that this boy was rescued alive and that
dolphins, like Elian himself says, helped the situation," artist Alexis
Blanco said. "Elian, for me, is like a messenger that announces the end
of the communist dictatorship (in Cuba)." The Vatican had no comment on
God's action: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563782963-b2c
: Did you witness/experience/illustrate any divine/demonic interventions in
the past few days? Were messages issued? Were the messages clear? To whom?
@ City Of God: http://ccel.wheaton.edu/fathers/NPNF1-02/
@ Bible: gopher://ftp.std.com/11/obi/book/Religion/Vulgate
@ Enoch: http://id.mind.net/~wolfc/library/ancient/enoch/enindex.htm
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# 8th graders use Super Glue, 'surgery' to save tarantula after brutal fall.
SPRINGFIELD, Missouri (AP) -- Felicia Daniels wants to be a veterinarian
when she grows up. She's off to a good start. When the pet tarantula in
Felicia's 8th-grade classroom took a tumble and cracked its abdomen, the
students reassembled its innards, sealed it with Super Glue & apparently
saved the creature's life. http://cnn.com/2000/US/01/31/spider.surgery.ap/
@ LIFE EXTENSION FOR THE 21ST CENTURY. As we draw closer to the reality of
genetic intervention and life extension, one of the key players in human
genome research explores the mythologies and classical failures of those
who have sought their own magical anti-aging elixirs. He also examines
the anti-aging revolution to come. http://www.walford.com/coleart.htm
: Have you saved/extended/rationalized any lives lately? Can souls/minds/
lives be saved with superglue/ducttape/elixers? Is your life worth saving?
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# Grave robbers executed in China. BEIJING (AP) China has executed 3 people
for stealing 15 murals excavated from the tomb of an imperial concubine
who lived 1,300 years ago. Only two of the murals, which were excavated
from Wei Guifei's tomb in 1991, were recovered, "causing irredeemable
losses to the nation." Wei was a Tang dynasty concubine. China's heritage
pillaged: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563768031-2c2
@ THE ARENOT CULTURE. By contemporary standards, the Arenot were a dystopian
society. They had an extremely dualistic cosmology through which they rep-
resented the forces of good and evil in constant tension. They also had
some rather unconventional beliefs, including genital mutilation to make
the penis more vulva-like and the vulva more penis-like. According to one
account, they believed "because copulation is necessary to the creation on
life, ritual necrophilia was necessary to the creation of the afterlife."
Their funeral punchbowl: http://web.utk.edu/~blyons/arenot.html
: What's your favorite ancient culture? Would you dare to steal their art/
artifacts/beliefs? Will their guardian deities punish you severely? Why not?
Is necrophilia the holiest of loves? Is love the holiest of deaths? How so?
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# SPACE SHUTTLE STS-99 UPDATE (NASA) Yesterday's launch of the space shuttle
Endeavour was postponed due to unfavorable weather conditions. The next
launch opportunity will be Tuesday, February 1, 2000. This shuttle flight,
dubbed the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM), is an international
project designed to obtain the most complete high-resolution digital topo-
graphic map of the Earth. Launch info: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov.
Complete information about the SRTM: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/
# SPACEVIEWS 2000.05 - Weather, Glitches Scrub Shuttle Launch; Science &
Controversy of STS-99; Possible Signal Raises New Hopes for Mars Polar
Lander; NASA Moving Ahead with Plans for Additional Shuttle Mission;
Forbes Endorses "Aggressive" Space Program; Deep Space One on Road to
Recovery; First Post-Repair Hubble Images Released; Minotaur Launches
JAWSAT; Ariane Launches CommSat; China Launches CommSat; Radiation May
Provide Energy for Europan Life: http://www.spaceviews.com/2000/0131/
: What's your favorite space program? Is it being manipulated? By whom? Why?
Have you manipulated any space programs lately? What is your ultimate goal?
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