-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000229b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Portal to notices, excuses, overflow, links: http://skepticon.pitas.com * No diabetic mice were vivisected during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Sombrero http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/660000/images/_661267_sombrero300.jpg _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # For These Ghost Hunters, It's All In The Ectoplasm. The ghostbuster pulls a flashlight out of his briefcase and points to the blue plastic lens. If a yellow fog-like trail shows up in the blue beam, a ghost has been here, he says. "That indicates ectoplasm, the spiritual residue of a ghost." And sure enough... http://www.post-gazette.com/magazine/20000222ghost2.asp : Have you found any ghosts lately? Have they found you? Who's more scared? # Witchcraft Hearings in S.Africa: "In most cases, the suspected witches are elderly" - http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/briefing/nw20000225/18.html @ Devil's Work: http://www.toledoblade.com/editorial/edit/0b26ed1.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # A Twisted Tale of Sunspots. (NASA) Like a double-barreled ray gun, two magnetically complex sunspots near the Sun's central meridian are pointed toward our planet. If solar flares erupt from these regions, Earth could be in for stormy space weather. Aiiieee!! We're all dooomed!!! Aaarrgghh!! Fleeee!!! [sizzle] http://spacescience.com/headlines/y2000/ast29feb_1.htm # Contingency plans for the continuing solar maximum: http://www.internetwire.com/technews/tn/01986045.dsl : What's your favorite shelter from solar flares, bad space weather, alien invasions, divine wrath, demonic possession, untoward thoughts? Is it safe? @ Space Mysteries: http://www.ianbyrne.free-online.co.uk/amspace.htm @ GROUND ZERO: http://news.excite.com/news/bw/000228/or-nbg-radio-network @ M.I.B. ATTACK: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000223/04/film-smith _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Satellite snaps a mighty sandstorm. A giant sandstorm the size of Spain has been spotted off the north-west coast of Africa in a satellite image, showing a dense cloud of Saharan sand blanketing hundreds of thousands of square kilometres of the eastern Atlantic Ocean. Damaging Caribbean coral reefs: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_661000/661091.stm @ links: Mission to Planet Earth http://www.earth.nasa.gov/ @ SeaWiFS Project http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEAWIFS.html @ Coral Mortality and African Dust http://catbert.er.usgs.gov/african_dust/ @ Airborne Sahelian Dust and Hurricanes http://www.thirdworld.org/role.html : Have y'r weather-control programs borne vivid/bitter/rewarding fruit; gone aright/awry; succeeded in irreversibly terraforming Earth for the Reptoids? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Few glitches reported on Leap Day. (AP) Leap Day brought scattered, minor computer glitches around the world in perhaps the final echo of the Y2K problem that wasn't. Even the US, which spent $100 billion fixing Y2K- related glitches, wasn't immune. There were various problems worldwide - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564645196-fb8 # Leap year computer bug bites - Japan worse hit so far - serves'em right: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_660000/660995.stm @ Japanese Meteorological Agency: http://www.kishou.go.jp/english/index.html : Have you set your watch/calendar/sundial/hourglass back/forward/sideways/ spiraling? Did it help? Did your systems crash anyway? Is society doomed?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Welcome To The mystery Of Rennes-le-Ch�teau - You are about to embark on a voyage of discovery in search of a lost, fabulous treasure. A treasure of incalculable wealth which may even be the resting place of the legendary Holy Grail itself. A treasure discovered in 1891 by a humble French priest and pillaged ruthlessly by him for almost 26 years. Join in the search for answers to this, one of the world's greatest, unsolved mysteries. Come to the south of France, to Languedoc, to: http://www.rennes-discovery.com/ @ THE H-BOMB AND THE HOLY GRAIL. In 1934 Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt sent agents to Mongolia to search for the reincarnated Christ & the Holy Grail, the secret of transmuting elements. 11 years later, US scientists in the Manhattan Project exploded the 1st atomic bomb. Did the Secrets of atomic weaponry come from the Holy Grail? When we split the atom in 1945 did we split the word or life-force of God? http://williamhenry.net/H-Bomb.htm : Is y'r conspiracy involved with Rennes-le-Ch�teau, the Priory of Sion, the Illuminati? Is the Holy Grail an alien telephone? Have you called ET lately? Is your deity the child of aliens? D'ya worship channeled entities? Which?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Cannabis 'May Kill Tumors' - http://www.sightings.com/politics6/tum.htm # Diabetes reversed in mice. (AP) Scientists have reversed diabetes in mice by generating insulin-producing cells in a lab and transplanting them into the animals, an indication of how useful so-called stem cells might be. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564643577-b30 @ Transhumanism: http://www.city-net.com/~optic/html/transhuman.shtml @ Transrealism: http://www.city-net.com/~optic/html/transreal.shtml : Have you rebuilt any immune systems / pancreatic systems / genomes lately? Have you rebuilt yourself? Whose stem cells did you use? Did they object?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiWinks: # New Physical Abduction Evidence - Proof of ETs On Europa Claimed - They're Coming For You Next: http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/ev.htm # Robots Take Over World's Largest Underground Mine - They Want Your Home Next: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000224/01/minerals-sweden # Mich. girl shot, killed in school - CIA mind-control rays implicated: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564646362-148 # Also: Clinton decries school shooting - "What a damn waste of p*ssy!" http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564647669-494 # Sombrero in space stuns astronomers - A dramatic new image of the Sombrero Galaxy: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_661000/661267.stm @ Sombrero galaxy: http://www.seds.org/mesier/m/m104.html @ Paranal Observatory: http://www.eso.org/paranal # Minister cop charged in death - Baptist murdered mistress' husband? http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564640283-4fa # Nigeria backs away from Islamic law - Xian/Muslim bloodshed continues: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564645593-e41 http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564643635-e43 # Israel releases Eichmann memoirs - "just a tiny cog in the machine" - http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564644768-ab5 @ LEHMBERG: Nothing is happening, has happened, or will, & LITTLE precludes us from climbing our *hill* -- http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/nothing.htm @ QUANTUM DOTS: http://mitre.org/research/nanotech/quantum_dot_cell1.html # China denies Falun Gong beating - "she fell down steps on her own!" http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564642852-ffc # Also: China dissident's wife begins fast, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564646932-22b _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "In space, nobody can hear you fart." --anon * Rev.R.Carter,ULC * http://skepticon.pitas.com * FAX: 603-415-3736 * SkeptiChat & SkeptiNews - latest: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/x.htm * Fringes of: Science, Faith, Paranormal, Conspiracy, Sex, Dope, Art <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. 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