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@ Secret Synth: http://members.xoom.com/angelsflight/secret/andromeda.jpg
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# Doomsayers Say Grand Planet Alignment Could Crash Net. MONTREAL (NB) --
Doomsday forecasters have shifted their attention from the Millennium Bug,
which didn't bite, to an extraterrestrial occurrence scheduled for May 5,
when a cluster of planets will align. Some say this has the potential of
creating colossal cosmic forces which could severely impact our planet.
Occurring only once every 6000 years or so, the rare alignment of Mercury,
Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Earth, Sun, and Moon could cause a magnetic
surge with the potential to crash power grids, blind satellites, and
seriously disrupt radio & landline communications, taking the Internet
down in the process. Astronomers call these fears "just a load of crap."
Really fine shit: http://cnnfn.com/news/technology/newsbytes/143196.html
@ Maniacal Doomsday Predictions by Flaming Airhead: http://www.rnoone.com
@ Grand Alignment info http://www.badastronomy.co/bad/misc/planets.html
@ Inevitable Apocalypso: http://www.aracnet.com/~atheism/tocapox7.htm
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# Workers on cigarette break see UFO. Unbelieved Flying Object. What were 8
Fluor Daniel employees smoking when they spotted a mysterious spectrum of
skyward lights during their cigarette break? The workers watched in awe
as an object of light moved and rotated above their heads, as if it were
a circular prism dangling from a skyward string, slowly turning to
reveal another color. http://www.greenvillenews.com/news/7020300.htm
: What do you smoke to see UFOs? Will you share it with us? Do you take many
cigarette breaks? Do you see many UFOs? Are UFOs attracted to cigaret smoke?
# Small Lights Acting Erratically - Perth: http://www.caus.org/mu020300.htm
# Eau d'asteroid: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns2224183
@ UnNatural Museum: Ancient Astronauts: http://unmuseum.mus.pa.us/aastro.htm
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# This Ghost Smears Vaseline On Us. A FAMILY say they are being terrorised
by an invisible creature which moves their beds & breaks objects in their
home. "When we sleep blankets are removed from us & our bodies are smeared
with lotions which are in the house," said father of four Masite Sejake.
"Sometimes Vaseline is smeared on us." Eldest son attacked by a tokoloshe;
see http://www.suntimes.co.za/2000/01/30/news/gauteng/njhb16.htm
: Have many ghosts attacked you lately? Do they slime you? Where do they get
the slime? Are they real ghosts, or are you being experimented on with mind-
control rays? Do you live near a HAARP facility? Does your head buzz? When?
@ Harness the power of mirrors for evil: Build a disgustoscope, the evil
<http://www.eskimo.com/%7Ebillb/amateur/dscope.html> twin of the nice
<http://dogfeathers.com/kaleido/index.html> kaleidoscope, and turn the
reflection of your hand into an "obscenely pulsing wrinkled flesh-ball"
with "throbbing organic orifices." http://memepool.com/Subject/Gadgets/
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# Tibetan Pawn backs China. BEIJING (AP) A 9-year-old boy picked by China to
be Tibet's 2nd-highest religious figure pledged support for the govt just
weeks after another important Tibetan leader fled. "I will be a living
Buddha who is patriotic, who cherishes education, who protects the nation
and benefits the people," the chubby-cheeked, 11th Panchen Lama said on
state TV. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563833608-4a7
# Japan wrestles with sumo scandal. TOKYO (AP) In Japan, the sumo wrestling
ring is sacred ground, blessed by priests & purified with salt before each
bout. But a former wrestler claims Japan's nat'l sport is rife with fixed
contests, renewing suspicions that sumo is not as clean as its image might
suggest. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563837066-b99
: Are your religious rites/structures/beliefs manipulated? For what reasons,
for whose benefit? Are all belief systems [political, economic, religious,
artistic, athletic] rigged? Are they all just tools for power and wealth??
@ The Politics of Religion: http://www.aracnet.com/~atheism/tocapred.htm
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# NoHand <http://www.bme.freeq.com/people/nohand/index.html> has amputated
his own fingers, hand, half of his foot (since lost entirely), part of
his genitals, and has "accidentally" lost his left leg below the knee
and his right above the knee. Extreme, yes, but he's not alone in his
<http://www.bme.freeq.com/people/index1.html> obsession with amputation.
<http://www.amputee-online.com/amputee/hustler.html> Now pluck out your
eye and let it fall upon: http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Wackos/
: Have you removed any parts of your body lately? Did the voices in y'r head
insist? D'ya have too many body parts? To whom d'ya donate the extras? Can I
have a piece of your heart? Have you drilled holes into your brain lately?
# Quiet Resurgence of Psychedelic Compounds as Instruments of Both Spirit-
ual & Scientific Exploration http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/story/29.html
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# University to sell stem cells. MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- U. Wisconsin-Madison
says it is creating a new institute that it says will be the first to sell
embryonic stem cells for worldwide research. "The intent is to get them
out into the world so that good things can be done with them." And cash:
http://www2.startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisStory=81341219
: Have you sold any stem cells lately? Do you have any extra stem cells to
sell? Will you auction them on eBay? Will you auction cloned tissues and
lifeforms? Should free markets determine the value of genetic materials??
@ Genome Project: http://www.ornl.gov/TechResources/Human%5FGenome/home.html
@ Carniverous Plant Database: http://www.hpl.hp.com/bot/cp%5Fhome
$ Carniverous Plant Sales: http://www.californiacarnivores.com
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# Inflatable Heat Shield Gets Space Test. (BBC) A giant inflatable heat
shield could prevent a space satellite from burning up during re-entry to
the Earth's atmosphere, if a daring test flight goes according to plan.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_628000/628415.stm
# A German company, Cargolifter, AG <http://www.cargolifter.com/> is trying
to revive the airship as a viable means of heavy transport. And truck on
over to http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Economics/
: Would you rather travel by spacecraft, zeppelin, raft, magic carpet, bike?
Would you rather just be beamed from place to place? Does travel interfere
with your alien implant? Do heat-shields protect you from mind-control rays?
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