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# 'Mystery' Of Bomber Crash May Soon Be Solved. PITTSBURGH (Reuters) Mystery
buffs should prepare for a letdown if a warplane said to be carrying any-
thing from nerve gas to an atom bomb is pulled from the Monongahela River
this summer. "As far as secret cargo, we're going to find absolutely no-
thing. It was simply an accident - this plane ran out of gas." The B-25
bomber plunged into the river 31 Jan 1956, deep in the Cold War. Stories
circulated that the plane was carrying billionaire-recluse Howard Hughes,
nerve gas, or a nuclear bomb. Some insisted the U.S. military, concerned
about the plane's secret cargo, pulled the plane to the surface in the
dead of night, dismantled it and shipped the parts downriver on barges.
What's your guess? http://news.excite.com/news/r/990709/12/odd-bomber
: Has the evidence already been removed, secreted, destroyed? Were aliens on
board? When did the *real* Howard Hughes die - or did he? Are you sure? Why?
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# A silent death. Nasa would have cut communications from the 1st men on the
moon if they had been stranded by technical failure, the BBC has learned.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_390000/390634.stm
@ Nasa: Apollo XI: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/history/apollo/apollo11/
# Also: Moon walker dies in bike crash:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_389000/389909.stm
# Apollo veteran calls for new vision:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_341000/341321.stm
: Would you like to observe stranded astronauts die? Should you be abandoned
in silence in space? Should your last moments be broadcast to all humanity??
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# NO CASH FOR ROCKET CRASH. Who's gonna pay for the fallout of a Russian
Proton rocket crash? So far it's the people of Kazakhstan, who pay with
their health & safety. Not healthy to live near or downrange from launch
sites: http://wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/20650.html
# And: Russia says Mir may be evacuated if Kazakh launch ban isn't lifted:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560237789-e16
# House split on satellite launches. (AP) Congresscritters concerned that
China and others may be learning U.S. scientific secrets by rocketing
civilian satellites spaceward want the US to expand its launch capabil-
ities. But upgrading USAF launch pads at Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg
could cost up to $600 million and, for now, that's beyond the Fed budget.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560233228-f58
# Something (Probably) Is Out There. (LATimes) At the dawn of a millennium,
US politics boils down to a joust of the bland & the blanched. Yet just 30
years ago this month, Americans did something truly bold: They put men on
Luna. Then the US stepped back from greatness; the space program was moth-
balled. Manifest Destiny will just have to wait. But if NASA isn't doing
much, there's MUFON. http://latimes.com/excite/990709/t000061238.html
: How much would you spend on space? Is military-industrial welfare more
vital than colonizing the universe? Are ETs keeping humanity from destiny?
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# Sleep Disorder May Explain Alien Abduction Stories. (NYTimes) About once a
week, Jean-Christophe Terrillon wakes and senses the presence of a threat-
ening, evil being beside his bed. Terror ripples through him, and he tries
to move or call out, but he is paralyzed -- unable to raise an arm or make
a sound. His ears ring, a weight presses down on his chest, and he has to
struggle for breath. Sometimes he finds himself rising and looking down on
his body, or else sent hurtling through a long tunnel, and these episodes
are terrifying even for a scientist like him who doesn't believe that evil
spirits go around haunting people. Called sleep paralysis, this disorder -
the result of a disconnect between brain and body as a person is on the
fringe of sleep - turns out to be increasingly common, affecting nearly
half of all people at least once. Moreover, a growing number of scholars
believe that sleep paralysis may help explain many ancient reports of
attacks by witches and modern claims of abduction by space aliens.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/07/09
/MN56310.DTL
: Have you really been abducted by aliens, possessed by demons, ridden by
incubi or succubi, taken by witches, or were you just dreaming? How to tell?
Do evil beings terrorize you, steal your breath, transport you thru tunnels?
Do you look forward to this? Would you recommend the experience to others?
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@ FBI/CIA Warehouse - Why So Many 'Lone Gunmen'? They all seem to have three
names, or words as names. And the 3 words somehow seem to have a rhythm to
them. Lee Harvey Oswald. Russell Weston, Junior, Benjamin Nathaniel Smith.
And the monopoly press described each one as a "lone assassin". Why is
America hung up on lone killers? Elsewhere, such as in Europe, they speak
of killer teams. Likewise, Central and South America have their death
squads. http://www.sightings.com/politics4/lone.htm
: Do you prefer to kill alone, or as part of a team? Who will you kill next?
Do you kill for cash, fun, sex, because the voices in your head tell you to?
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# Doomsday cult under guard. Mexican police have placed 150 doomsday cult
members under constant guard to prevent the possibility of mass suicide.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_389000/389778.stm
# Doomsday theorists note meteor explosion over NZ. There were calls to New
Zealand talkback radio claiming the end of the world is nigh, following a
spectacular meteor explosion over the country. The doomsday theorists say
the meteor signals the beginning of a series of strikes which will destroy
Earth. http://www.abc.net.au/news/newslink/weekly/newsnat-8jul1999-1.htm
: Do you look forward to the destruction of the Earth? Have you taken steps
to ensure its destruction? Will you profit from Armageddon? Is doomsday fun?
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# Plastics promise bright future. A new breed of glowing plastics promise to
transform our lives, from cheap videophones to a television screen you can
wear: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_390000/390220.stm
: Would you like to be rebuilt from plastic? Would you last longer? Would
you rather have implants of plastic, metal, organics, silicon, god-stuff?
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