SkeptiNews 000628c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/27_06_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, praises, discoveries: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No sleeping giants were awakened during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Web Economy Bullshit Generator: http://www.dack.com/web/bullshit.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Radioactive Cylinder Kills Three. CAIRO (Reuters) An Egyptian farmer & two of his children died from radiation poisoning after the family unwittingly took a radioactive cylinder home, hoping the object was valuable. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000628/07/odd-radioactivity-dc @ INFINITE ENERGY: Cold Fusion etc: http://www.mv.com/ipusers/zeropoint/ @ Event-Symmetric Space-Time: "The universe is made of stories, not of atoms." Tell it to Heisenberg: http://www.weburbia.com/pg/strings.htm @ Y2K & snakes: http://sevenquestions.com/new7q/mikepingleton.htm # WHAT PRESIDENT CARTER LEARNED ABOUT UFO's - after being attacked by killer bunny rabbit: http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.com/what_carter_learned.txt # UFOs & Sonic Booms: http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.com/ufo.html#sonicboom # SpaceWatch 2000: http://www.destinationspace.net/ufo/watch/default.htm : Have you learned anything about UFOs/radiation/fusion/Y2K/spacetime/comets lately? D'ya know enough to stay away from these? Is spacetime hazardous to your health/sanity/cashflow? Do radioactive cylinders fill your dreams? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Mars Express: Europe Takes the Lead. A $200 mln 2003 European mission may well take the next giant step in the hunt for water on Mars. ESA�s Mars Express spacecraft should give scientists the best idea yet of where to find water on Mars, info that may help later probes target places most likely to find life, as well as resources to provide future human missions with air to breathe, water to drink and fuel for the return trip home. http://space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/esa_mars_express_000628.html # SUMMER LETS ORBITER SEE ASTEROID EROS IN NEW LIGHT - back up just a bit... a little more... http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/06/27/near.update/ # NASA RESPONDS TO OPEN LETTER REGARDING 76P/ WEST-KOHOUTEK-IKEMURA COMET - admits nothing: http://millenngroup.com/repository/cometary/marshit6.html # Malaysia seeks place in space. (BBC) Malaysia hopes to develop its own space launch capability. http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10032797 # Space Age Malaysia (BBC) http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10032798 : Are you in the space age yet? Are you pre/post/meta/sub/uber-spaceage? Do you look closely at planet(oid)s, stars,comets, miscellaneous cosmic debris? D'ya prefer incoming/outgoing/bypassing cosmic stuff?Will you get there 1st? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Ancient Roman City Going Underwater. ANKARA (AP) - Archaeologists who have rescued precious mosaics & other artifacts from two Roman villas hoped to excavate more, but floodwaters from a dam in SE Turkey have washed over the site. Treasure trove lost forever, or until dam the damn dam breaks: http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20000628/aponline112802_001.htm # SCIENTISTS IDENTIFY EARLIEST COINS - IRS calculates, assesses whopping back taxes: http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20000627/hi_coins.html @ STONEPAGES. Stone circles, dolmens, standing stones, cairns, barrows and hillforts: welcome to the first and most comprehensive online guide to European megaliths and other ancient sites: http://www.stonepages.com/ @ FACE OF A SLEEPING GIANT. IN Rio de Janeiro, a legendary mountain with the face of an ancient giant rises 842 meters above the sea level. High atop a coastal mountain, this huge and largely unknown carving of an ancient face reminds explorers of the Sphinx in Egypt. Mysterious inscriptions give clues in an extinct language. Could this be a link to our forgotten past? What else? http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.com/forbidden.html#giantface : Have you found/lost/exploited/destroyed any ancient artifacts/cultures/art lately? Have you enslaved people/ideas/wealth? Do megaliths/megawealth/worms fill your dreams? Do sleeping giants watch over you? Can they hear you fart? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Town Cancels Psychic Fair - event goes against city recreation policy. ST.CLAIR SHORES -- As promoter of a psychic fair, Jody Badger should have seen this coming. http://detnews.com/2000/macomb/0006/25/b05-80727.htm @ discovering astrology: www.sevenquestions.com/new7q/barbarashafferman.htm $ FortuneTelling Software - oh really? http://www.rkwest.com/fortune.shtml @ Rules of Paranormal Research: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/go/research.htm $ REWARD. There is also a MILLION-DOLLAR REWARD offered to any Person who can Prove the Master Plan of the Colorful Peacock from Angel Ridge to be Wrong with Reason and Logic, which Master Plan gives Reasonable Solutions for our Massive Problems. Huh? http://www.thepeacock.com/impersonated.htm : Is'ya psychic or is'ya ain't? D'ya foretell or d'ya don't? Can/should/will your massive problems be solved with reason & logic; luck & pluck; fortune & fame; bribery; divine/demonic intervention? Could you tell it was coming?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiBriefs: # Spymaster who suicided was being probed - had access to most sensitive US secrets: http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/default-2000628221310.htm # Electronic Signatures Yield Unpleasant Surprises - Don't touch that dial (or click that mouse) - entrapped: http://cryptome.org/esigs-suck.htm # The Hacker Generation Gap - Some hacker tricks are for kids. Awww... http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,37264,00.html?tw=wn20000628 @ thoughts of a missile silo officer: http://sevenquestions.com/new7q/jonanderson.htm#2 # EMPTY THE MORTUARIES http://news.excite.com/news/r/000628/07/odd-bodies-dc # Indian slaves who brought prosperity and liberation to alien lands. Forced into UK colonies: http://www.indiaexpress.com/news/world/20000627-1.html @ The Noam Chomsky Archive: http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/ [thanx, Hilary] # CALIFORNIA BROWN SHIRTS. Bill Would Require Kids To Be Asked Intrusive, Personal Questions: http://www.newsmakingnews.com/contents6,27,00.htm @ Karl Marx's alcoholic high jinks, his flatulence, and his boil-ridden penis: http://www.thenation.com/issue/000710/0710merrifield.shtml @ Our Moral Responsibility Regarding Space Debris: http://users.rowan.edu/~kozd5710/SophClinic/SpaceDebris.html @ To link literature & science is the main task of the 21st century. Truth and artifice must merge their reciprocal powers. Otherwise we're doomed: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55993-2000Jun24.html # THE PICTURES DO LIE: Can history be told objectively on film? http://www.culturefront.org/culturefront/magazine/99/fall/article_12.html # THE YEAR MICHAEL JACKSON HAD SEX: Human or alien? 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