-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991210a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE THE ENTIRE BULLETIN WHEN YOU REPLY; CUT/PASTE, EH? * No artificial lifeforms were ritually abused to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Earth From Above: http://cnn.com/1999/books/news/12/09/earth.from.above/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Scientists call for life creation debate. (BBC) Researchers call for a public debate on creating life from its chemical building blocks after a breakthrough in the US. The essence of life comes down to about 300 genes. This seems to be the minimum set of molecular instructions required to build a living organism. Expect to see lab-synthesized bacteria soon: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_556000/556984.stm # ALSO - Is life just genes? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_556000/556958.stm # Creating artificial bugs: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech//newsid_262000/262025.stm # Book of life: Chapter one: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_545000/545008.stm # Long road to inheritance: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_545000/545667.stm : Should humans debate creating life, or Just Do It? Will we do it anyway? After humans create life, will Creationists dry up and blow away? Will the synthetic lifeforms be faster, better, cheaper than arduously-evolved life? # The mysteries of creation. (BBC) Is the human being a creator or a creation? The distinction could become blurred if American scientists press ahead with an experiment to build a totally new organism in the lab. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_558000/558194.stm @ LINKS - Institute for Genomic Research: http://www.tigr.org/ @ Celera Genomics Corp: http://www.celera.com/home.asp : What is life? How can you tell? Is a computer virus alive? Are you? Have you been outsmarted by a virus lately? If an entity survives and reproduces within its environment, is it alive? Is terminating such a live, murder?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Melissa virus creator pleads guilty. A US computer programmer admits creating the e-mail virus which disrupted the operations of thousands of companies and government agencies around the world. And it was fun: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_557000/557605.stm http://cnn.com/1999/TECH/computing/12/09/computer.virus.02.ap/ http://news.excite.com/news/r/991209/19/news-crime-melissa # ALSO - Melissa virus goes global: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_307000/307162.stm # Invasion of the killer e-mail viruses: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_143000/143004.stm : Have you created a cybervirus lately? Would you rather create a biological or cybervirus? Which has more potential? Which better suits your talents?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # GIRL TROUBLE: Morning sickness `worse for mothers of girls'. (BBC) Mothers are more likely to suffer from serious morning sickness if they are pregnant with a girl. Early abortion is the best remedy: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_556000/556895.stm # Girls Make Mothers Sick? LONDON (Reuters) -- Boys may be harder to handle but girls are sickening. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991210/07/odd-girls : What's your favorite gender distinction? Did your deities design humans like this due to preference for one gender or another? What gender is your favorite deity? Are you sure? Did you look? Are most deity-spawned hybrids male, to least discomfit the mother? Are female godlings too hazardous?? # Coming soon, a 'green' Barbie doll - Mattel to make toys from eco-friendly materials: http://www.smh.com.au/news/9912/10/world/world10.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Jupiter gave birth to Uranus and Neptune - bear down and push. (BBC) A new computer model of the early Solar System suggests that Uranus and Neptune were once part of a much larger Jupiter which fragmented. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_555000/555473.stm : Have you given birth to a planet lately? Did it hurt? Is it male, female, other? Is it obstreperous, developmentally challenged, rashy, irascible?? # ALSO - By Jupiter! Confusion over planet: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_524000/524757.stm # Star wobbles under tug of planet: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_459000/459889.stm # Jupiter's supersonic winds: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_341000/341782.stm # A planet beyond Pluto: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_467000/467572.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Mysterioso Lands in Dam: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991209/08/odd-ufo # Alien 'Golf' Shot Pretty Dam Forceful. SYDNEY (Reuters) Even for an alien it was a poor shot, a cosmic out of bounds in the water, irretrievably embedded in the earth: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991210/07/odd-shot : Have aliens thrown stuff at you lately? Is this object a piece of debris from a Sirian battle cruiser, imploded by a Denebian hypershock torpedo?? # 'Dam' UFO was meteorite - Police identify mysterious object in water catchment: http://www.smh.com.au/news/9912/10/national/national2.html # More UFOs spotted in Oz - Rash of sightings has everyone down under look- ing up: http://www.theage.com.au/breaking/9912/10/A28343-1999Dec10.shtml _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Anybody Seen Our Meteorite? DUBLIN (Reuters) Irish astronomers asked sec- urity camera owners to check if they've filmed a missing meteorite which crashed to earth near Dublin in a huge blue fireball last month. "Security camera operators can play a pivotal role in Irish history in catching this cosmic fugitive." http://news.excite.com/news/r/991207/08/odd-meteorite : Have you lost any meteorites lately? Did they sneak off when you weren't paying attention, or were they stolen, or were they occult manifestations? Have you tracked any UFOs lately? Do they show up on car-park security cams? # Flying with antigravity - World-first as weightlessness created in lab: www.scmp.com/News/Asia/Article/FullText_asp_ArticleID-19991210032009597.asp _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "*hee hee, that'll show 'em. Throw rocks at my country will you. Slithey little toads. No more gyre and gimbling in this little Wombat's wabe. Mimmsy your own damn borogroves or we will ramsey your bloody rath outgrabe. Just see if we don't*" --townes de wombat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Rev. Ric Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.da.ru * FAX: 603-415-3736 * Fringe * Science * Faith * Sex/Drugs * UFO/PSI/Y2K * Conspiracy * * email INFO or SUBSCRIBE SKEPTICHAT to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * (sorry, I can't answer all email - but thanks for your feedback) * SkeptiChat/News archives: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/sc/files.htm * THE OFFICIAL MAILING LIST OF THE *SEVENTY*SEVENTH* MILLENNIUM!! DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. 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