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# Digital Evolution Enters Debate. Scientists observe evolution in progress
with a computer program that creates digital organisms. It gives you the
feeling you're not in Kansas anymore. Kansans will be *so* relieved...
http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/21297.html
@ Links: CalTech: http://www.caltech.edu/
@ Michigan State: http://www.msu.edu/home/
@ UCLA: http://www.ucla.edu/ (search for EVOLUTION)
: Are you evolved? Would you rather evolve biologically, socially, quickly,
digitally, magically? If you're not evolved, should you be allowed to live?
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# X-Rays Show Matter Being Sucked Into Black Hole. (Reuters) Astronomers
said they had seen, for the first time, what looks like matter being
pulled into a super-massive black hole at more than 6 million mph.
Gnarly: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990817/03/science-space-blackhole
# Black hole detected swallowing matter. (BBC) In space, no-one could see
you vanish into a black hole - until now. Astronomers may have detected
the final cry from matter disappearing into a black hole. It seems to have
been spotted in the centre of a galaxy 100 million light years away. Gulp.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_422000/422837.stm
# Also: Black is the new pink:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_337000/337768.stm
# New black holes discovered:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_318000/318884.stm
# Hubble reveals stellar traffic jam:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_290000/290062.stm
@ Links: Astrophysical Journal paper on observations:
http://lheawww.gsfc.nasa.gov/~nandra/pubs/3516let/abstract.html
@ ASCA homepage: http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/asca/ascagof.html
: Have you thrown anything into a black hole lately? Will black holes solve
our waste disposal problems? If you throw trash in, where does it come out?
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# Cassini craft heads for Earth flyby. PASADENA, Ca. (UPI) Space scientists
are eagerly awaiting tonight's flyby of Earth by the Cassini spacecraft,
a 6-ton probe headed for a 2004 rendezvous with the ringed planet Saturn.
Anticipating: http://news.excite.com/news/u/990817/04/tech-science-cassini
# By Design, a Near-Miss. (ABC) Seventy-two pounds of deadly plutonium are
speeding toward Earth at more than 36,000 mph, and will miss slamming
into the planet by a mere 725 miles. And that's just as NASA planned.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/cassini990817.html
@ Links: Cassini Mission: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/cassini/
@ Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space:
http://www.globenet.free-online.co.uk/
# Sidebar: Taking A Look At Earth:
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/cassini990817.html#sidebar
: Are you ready for massive Pu238 contamination? Have you ever inhaled any?
Is it tasty, nutritious, glowing? Does it make you sneeze, cough, dissolve?
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# McCain says political rhetoric encourages bigotry. Sen. John McCain blamed
"sharp and intolerant" rhetoric in American politics for encouraging the
kind of bigotry that caused a white supremacist's shooting rampage at a
Jewish community center in Los Angeles. "Those of us in public office bear
the burden of blame for this tragedy." Then Pat Buchanan snorted rudely.
http://cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/08/17/president.2000/mccain.ap/
: Do you like to arouse public frenzy? Are you a demagogue? Does your belief
system promote bigotry? Should you be extinguished? Should anyone else? Why?
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SkeptiLinks:
# EARTHQUAKE STRIKES TURKEY: AT LEAST 500 DEAD - ALLAH WRATHFUL:
http://cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9908/17/turkey.quake.04/index.html
# Court upholds colonial-era law against Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560740077-cd4
# Indonesia: Man killed by troops for desecrating national flag:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560737483-946
@ HIGHLY MISLEADING TRUTH AND RESPONSIBILITY IN MENTAL HEALTH PRACTICES
ACT - The "False Memory" Movement's Remedy for a Nonexistent Problem:
http://members.aol.com/conch8/antiTRMP1.html
# Racial segregation accepted by half of young US adults:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560738544-2be
# NUKE COUNTERSPY: LEE TARGETED BECAUSE OF RACE:
http://cnn.com/US/9908/17/china.spy.ap/index.html
@ Really Dead White Guys: http://www.findagrave.com/claimtofame/author.html
@ Really Dead Odd Crooks: http://findagrave.com/claimtofame/criminalodd.html
@ Really Dead Holy Guys: http://www.findagrave.com/claimtofame/religion.html
@ Really Dead Scientists: http://findagrave.com/claimtofame/scientist.html
# Y2K effects said unlikely on Web - impossible to predict:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560739493-9e2
@ We Must Do The Necessary Thinking For Them:
http://www.dickshovel.com/Wemust.html
@ Alien Empire: http://alienempire.com/cgi-bin/ultraboard/UltraBoard.pl
@ UFO HUNTERS!! http://www.frazir.heron.com.pl/ufok/index.html
@ This will become the world's leading crop circle research site!
http://www.cropcircleresearch.com
# Lutherans to vote on church alliance with Episcopalians:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560739159-bb9
# Dalai Lama addresses 4,500 in Indiana - Dan Quayle meditates:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560741395-d52
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"He spun round in the doorway with a violence that was tangible,
surveying her bitterly with hard, blazing eyes before banging
the door so savagely that the whole room shuddered and whimpered
before sinking into an unearthly silence."
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