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> SOHO SATELLITE BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE. The SOHO sun-observing satellite has
returned to service more than a month after a gyroscope that kept it stable
failed. The $1 billion satellite's controllers returned it to service using
a new computer program to keep it orientated without the bad gyro. Frozen
for months, see http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9902/04/soho.back.ap/index.html
# Where the solar wind blows. (BBC) A satellite has identified the source of
the solar wind - a stream of charged particles that billows from the Sun.
See http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_272000/272386.stm
@ Links: Soho: http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/
# Current image of the Sun: http://www.sel.bldrdoc.gov/current_images.html
@ The Sun: http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/sol.html
@ NASA solar probe: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ice_fire/sprobe.htm
: If we learn enough about stars, can we make our own? Must we maintain Sol
so it doesn't get soft and squishy? Are stars hard to make and fix? Why?
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# E.T. in Quarantine. (ABCnews) The Stardust mission will land a smidgen of
material from a comet onto the Utah desert in 2004. Should we worry about
contamination from the cosmos? Or has it already happened?
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/oberg990204.html
# Going Comet Wild (EurekAlert!) It's in the right place at the right time.
http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/nasa-gcw020499.html
# University of Chicago Instrument To Get Close Look At Comet:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/02/990204082407.htm
: Are you contaminated by cosmic debris? Has is hurt your lifestyle? How?
How close a look at a comet would you like? Would you survive? Why not?
# Giving Vent to Life - Does Life Spring from Undersea Thermal Vents? TOKYO
(Reuters) - Japanese researchers report they have managed to re-create the
conditions from which life itself may have begun. Hot, Cold and Back Again -
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/lifeorigins990205.html
: Is life a top-down or bottom-up process? Or both or neither? How come?
Would you rather be contaminated by cosmic or underwater debris? Why?
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> GLITCH IN RUSSIA'S SPACE MIRROR TEST. An ambitious experiment in orbiting
a giant mirror was botched when the crew of Russia's Mir space station was
unable to open the umbrella-like mirror. "There is an emergency situation.
The mirror won't unfold." Crew will continue trying to deploy it. Snagged
on beam - see http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9902/04/space.mirror.01/index.html
# Russians Give Up On Space Mirror Experiment. MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian
Mission Control abandoned any further attempt to project the sun's rays on
to darkened areas of the earth with a giant mirror following a snag at the
Mir space station that thwarted the scheme. Another one bites the dust -
see http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990205/04/international-mirror
# Znamya is going nowhere. (BBC) Predictions that space mirrors will turn
night into day are nonsense. Another expert tells us what is impossible -
see http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_272000/272489.stm
# Astronomers attack Russian space mirror plan (CNN) - Bedazzled - see
http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9902/04/space.mirror.reaction.reut/index.html
# Crisis Looms in Space - Budget Cuts, Hiring Freeze Hurt Space Safety (ABC)
CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) — A safety oversight panel warned NASA today that it’s
headed for a crisis because of cutbacks. Losing Core Competencies - see
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/space990204.html
: Will space mirrors ever work? How about orbiting power stations? Are
aliens sabotaging human space efforts? Will we ever get off-planet? How?
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# Battle rages over mystery Miami Circle. MIAMI (Reuters) - In a city famed
for jet-set glitz and political tumult, a dusty, centuries-old circle in
stone has fired the passions of schoolchildren, native Indians and builders
in a classic clash of development and preservation. Stonehenge west - see
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/Reuters19990204_1657.html
: What is your favorite megalith? Who put it there? Are replica megaliths
as good as the originals? What do you do at megaliths? Do they need upkeep?
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> MIT CREATES iNET TIME CAPSULE. What do Bill Gates, VictoriasSecret.com,
and free software have in common? Not much, but soon they will all share a
digital time capsule as an attempt to bottle the cyberzeitgeist circa 1999.
Frozen - see http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9902/04/mit.idg/index.html
: Which industrialists, UFOlogists, politicos, programmers should be placed
in the capsule for 100 years? Will they improve with time? Will we notice?
# Robots That Think On Their Feet Now Possible. Researchers have stated a
theory and devised an algorithm that will make robots as deft and nimble as
Robin Williams on "The Tonight Show." Moreover, they have demonstrated their
theory and algorithm with robots in their Washington University laboratory.
Scan over to http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/02/990201073745.htm
: Is a Robin WIlliams robot desirable? When will robots place humans in time
capsules to remind them of the bad old days? Will you go willingly? Why not?
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# World's Smallest Pen May Help Draw Tiny Circuits. Researchers have trans-
formed a workhorse laboratory instrument into the world's smallest, sharpest
pen, able to draw lines just a few dozen molecules wide and one molecule
thick. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/01/990129074052.htm
# Superconductors See The Light At Shorter Wavelengths. Scientists have dev-
eloped a superconducting device capable of detecting light at wavelengths
that were previously off-limits to the materials, with remarkable speed and
sensitivity. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/01/990129073919.htm
: When will we be able to see and make absolutely anything that's physically
possible? Will we be god-like then? Will we rebuild the universe? Into what?
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@ Aliens Christ! Biblical evidence of the demonic envasion of aliens.
"UFOs, Aliens & Antichrist: The Angelic Conspiracy & End Times Deception."
Are aliens evil incarnate? You decide! RealVideo/RealAudio:
http://www.pseudo.com/links/archiveplay.asp?archid=4391&archtype=vid
http://www.pseudo.com/links/archiveplay.asp?archid=4391&archtype=aud
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Live Tuesday, 4-5 pm EST: http://streetsound.pseudo.com/infinity/
: Is your religion an alien invasion/conspiracy? Are all religions? Who is
your favorite alien/deity? Are the End Times near? Is that good? Why not?
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