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# Jellyfish Gum Up Works At Nuclear Plant. TOKYO (Reuters) A nuclear plant
in Japan has been forced to slash its power generation after a swarm of
jellyfish blocked off its pipes. Tokyo Electric Power Co Inc (TEPCO) cut
power generation at its nuclear plant in central Japan after the inverte-
brates clustered around an opening which takes in seawater to be used as
coolant. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990708/07/odd-life-jellyfish
: If the US Navy uses dolphins for military purposes, can/should/will anti-
nuke campaigners recruit sealife to attack atomic facilities? What animals
do you regularly exploit for your doctrinaire purposes? Have animal-rights
activists found you out yet? Do you use mind-control on animals, activists?
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# Researchers' 'robo-fly' demystifies insect flight. (U-WIRE) BERKELEY, Ca.
The mid-air stunts & acrobatics of the flying insect that have for decades
baffled scientists are now close to being entirely explained - even repli-
cated - thanks to a unique device built and designed by UC Berkeley res-
earchers, who began discovering the intricacies of flying after making a
robotic replica of a flying insect, a device called "robo-fly." "We uncov-
ered how insects are able to fly." 3 mechanisms governing insect flight:
"Delayed Stall," "Rotational Circulation" and "Wake Capture." Buzz on
over to: http://news.excite.com/news/uw/990706/odd-67
: Will new human transport devices be based on insect flight? Is the Roswell
flying-saucer reverse-engineering system obsolete? Would you rather fly by
airplane, flying saucer, helicopter, robo-fly, ornithopter, balloon, angel?
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# NASA unveils plans for comet. LOS ANGELES (AP) - A spacecraft named Deep
Impact will fire a 1,100-pound copper bullet at the nucleus of a comet,
blasting out a crater the size of a football field and as deep as a seven-
story building. The radical US$240 mln NASA mission may sound more like
fiction than science, but its primary purpose will be to study the makeup
of comets. It's a coincidence that the project has the same name as last
summer's disaster movie "Deep Impact," which was about a comet smacking
Earth. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560230671-8b6
# Also - Mission called Messenger will go to the neglected planet Mercury:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_389000/389076.stm
@ Links: MESSENGER: http://sd-www.jhuapl.edu/MESSENGER
@ Mercury: http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/mercury.html
@ NASA Comet observations: http://encke.jpl.nasa.gov/
: Would you rather blast a comet or a planet? Is it moral to blast comets?
Will the comet gods blast Earth in revenge? Will the Zetans let us do this?
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# NASA clears telescope for launch. CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) The largest and most
powerful X-ray telescope ever to be launched will leave aboard the space
shuttle Columbia July 20, the anniversary of man's first moon landing. The
5-day shuttle mission will be led by Eileen Collins, NASA's first female
commander. In development since the 1970s, the Chandra X-ray Observatory
will look for faint sources of cosmic X-rays, such as quasars, exploded
stars and possibly black holes. And Chandra's military twin can read your
mail. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560228654-a7c
: Can/should/will/do we use alien technologies to build ever-better observa-
tion devices? Will the Reptilioids allow us to get away with this? Why not?
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# Mystery of solar wind solved. WASHINGTON (AP) Particles streaming out from
the sun catch a magnetic wave and surf across the solar system at almost
two million miles an hour, twice the predicted speed, according to new
satellite data. The high speed flow from the sun, called the solar wind,
has been a mystery to scientists for decades because they expected the
particles to poke along at a mere 1 mln MPH. New measurements by 2 science
sats have solved the puzzle by showing that the solar wind's speed is
boosted by magnetic waves that spiral out from the sun. Riding mag.surf -
see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560227595-58e
@ Images to support this story: FTP://PAO.GSFC.NASA.GOV/newsmedia/SWIND
: Do UFOs surf the magnetic waves? Does this support the old contention that
UFOs are magnetic craft? Can we build such magnetic craft? Have we already?
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# Controversy over sun health claim. (BBC) Experts have panned a study which
says the health advantages of exposure to the sun outweigh the risk of skin
cancer. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_389000/389568.stm
# Also - Do you think it's unsafe to sunbathe?
news2.thls.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/talking_point/newsid_389000/389953.asp
@ Links - British Medical Journal: http://www.bmj.com/
@ Health Education Authority: http://www.hea.org.uk/
@ Cancer Research Campaign: http://www.crc.org.uk/
: How could humans have evolved on a planet where we're so susceptible to
damage by the sun, by gravity, by the biosphere? Were we (mis)designed,
imported, lab-cultured? Is skin cancer nature's revenge against people who
don't spend their entire lives at computer terminals or watching TV? Why?
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# Sahara desert born 4,000 years ago. (BBC) Using a new computer simulation
of the Earth's climate German scientists say that the Sahara underwent a
brutal climate change about 4,000 years ago. Over three hundred years the
climate altered severely. 10,000 years ago the Sahara, the largest desert
in the world, was covered by grass and low shrubs. But then summer temper-
atures increased and rainfall almost ceased. The change devastated many
ancient cultures and caused those that did survive to migrate elsewhere.
@ Links: All About The Sahara:
http://hyperion.advanced.org/16645/the_land/sahara_desert.shtml
@ Potsdam Institute for Climate Research: http://www.pik-potsdam.de/
: Was the massive, brutal climate shift caused by nature, humans, aliens,
deities, robots, random factors, solar negligence, the CIA, MicroSoft, me?
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