Brazil's Twin Town

2009-01-22 Thread Jim Sharkey
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/brazil/4307262/Nazi-angel-of-death-Josef-Mengele-created-twin-town-in-Brazil.html Joseph Mengele apparently found a way to increase the birthrate of the master race, at least in this small Brazilian enclave. Pretty wacky stuff, though it's

RE: Br!n: Congratulations! Today you get rid of... of... what's hisname?

2009-01-22 Thread Pat Mathews
Sure will as soon as I get back to my home computer. It's stored elsewhere. http://idiotgrrl.livejournal.com/ Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:56:49 -0600 From: deg...@chiba.3jane.net To: brin-l@mccmedia.com Subject: RE: Br!n: Congratulations! Today you get rid of... of... what's

Portal Gun

2009-01-22 Thread Rceeberger
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30109...@n03/sets/72157612758626401/ xponent Want Want Want Maru rob ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Galactic Effect On Biodiversity

2009-01-22 Thread Rceeberger
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2007/07/the-milky-way-c.html Horoscope enthusiasts will be happy to hear that a grand cosmic force does indeed seem to be responsible for controlling the direction of all life on Earth. However, this grand cosmic cycle has more to do with extinction than

The Hunt For Goldilocks

2009-01-22 Thread Rceeberger
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2007/05/goldilocks_plan.html http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2007/04/1st_habitable_p.html?cid=109278512 http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2007/05/dead_zones_in_t.html http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/02oct_goldilocks.htm xponent Little Red

Re: The Hunt For Goldilocks

2009-01-22 Thread Charlie Bell
Hey Rob - if you're going to post links to articles, can you at least include a paragraph or so of each linked article to show what's interesting about it and maybe explain why I'd bother clicking it. I'm sure I'm not alone in being very reluctant to click naked links. Likewise, it's

Re: The Hunt For Goldilocks

2009-01-22 Thread xponentrob
- Original Message - From: Charlie Bell char...@culturelist.org To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 6:53 PM Subject: Re: The Hunt For Goldilocks Hey Rob - if you're going to post links to articles, can you at least include

Re: Scouted: U.S. to collapse in next two years?

2009-01-22 Thread Doug Pensinger
Dan wrote: I googled for that and found nothing that hinted at that. Given China's only two priorities: 1) The government keeps total control 2) The economy keeps expanding Excellent points Dan, but what you fail to see is how requiring electric vehicles would accomplish both more

Re: Portal Gun

2009-01-22 Thread Dave Land
On Jan 22, 2009, at 2:40 PM, Rceeberger wrote: http://www.flickr.com/photos/30109...@n03/sets/72157612758626401/ I'm making a note here: huge success. I HAVE to show that to my son, who is a huge Portal fan. Dave ___