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# Climate disaster possible by 2100. (BBC) Many of the world's leading
climatologists fear a massive rise in CO2 emissions. Policy makers scared:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_443000/443837.stm
@ Links - IPCC: http://www.ipcc.ch/
@ UN Framework Convention on Climate Change: http://www.unfccc.de/
@ Climate Prediction/Research http://www.met-office.gov.uk/sec5/sec5pg1.html
@ Carbon Dioxide Info Analysis Centre: http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/cdiac/
: Is climate disaster the inevitable result of civilization? Is our purpose
on Earth to raise global temperatures? Do ETs help or are we on our own??
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# "Bible Code" Debunked By Scholars. NEW YORK (AP) - An international team
of statisticians is debunking the controversial "Bible code," which claims
the Old Testament has hidden references to 20th century events that can be
revealed by a computer. Proponents of the code claim that names and events
were hidden in the Bible as written thousands of years ago & can be found
through computer searches of the Hebrew text. Television documentaries,
fast-selling books & numerous articles have popularized the theory, first
published in the academic journal StatisticalScience. Now the same journal
is offering an article challenging the technique it reported in 1994. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561090672-ea8
: Have you decoded any holy texts lately? Do they predict your next income
tax bill? Do the voices in your head help with the decoding? Are they calm?
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# Heaven's Gate House Sold. RANCHO SANTA FE, Calif. (ABC) The house at the
center of the Heaven's Gate cult is sold. The villa has been purchased for
US$688,000 by a group of investors led by a neighbor, developer William
Strong Jr. He says the house will be removed, but that he has no immediate
plans for the three-acre site. A deputy county assessor says the buyer got
a heck of a deal, since the land alone is valued at nearly one-and-a-half
million dollars. Thirty-nine members of the cult committed suicide on the
property. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990910/18/ca-state-news-6
: What's your favorite suicide/doomsday cult? Have you started/joined any
suicide/doomsday cults lately? Are you being overtaken by events? Which??
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@ ARTIFICIAL CONSCIOUSNESS - Inventing Minds. Subsuming artificial intelli-
gence (AI), artificial consciousness is a wholly encompassing super-goal.
AI is all over the place in the 1990's - in the autofocus algorithms of
cameras, the automated trading systems used in stock markets, in grammar
checking software, even in engine computers which optimize the fuel/air
ratio at the intake manifold. These AI's, though of impressive utility,
are indisputably not conscious. http://www-douzzer.ai.mit.edu:8080/ai.html
: Is your consciousness artificial, natural, virtual, unnoticeable? Are you
algorithmic, epileptic, idiosyncratic, extraterrestrial, automotive, blue?
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# High-Tech I.D.'s. Researchers at SJSU's biometrics lab say their Defense
Department-funded fingerprint, iris scan & palmprint ID systems are here.
And do not be afraid. http://www.metroactive.com/metro/biometric-9936.html
# Simple Test Allows Shoppers To Check Produce for Engineered Content. (FOX)
LONDON - An instant test for GM foods could soon allow shopkeepers and
customers to check whether produce is totally free of modified crops.
http://www.foxnews.com/js_index.sml?content=/news/international/
: What/who would you like to identify? What/who should stay anonymous? Who
should know your GM status? D'ya wanna change identities, species, planets?
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@ LIQUID ASSETS: The Phillips Economic Hydraulic Computer is a triumph of
plumbing & Perspex. Conceived & designed by Bill Phillips, a New Zealand-
born engineer-turned-economist, the prototype caused a minor sensation
when first demonstrated at the London School of Economics in Nov. 1949.
Seven feet high and five feet wide, the bizarre device was an hydraulic
model of income flow in the national economy. The pump was switched on
by the chain-smoking Phillips and coloured water cascaded and sloshed
through tanks, pipes, sluices and valves. Professors of economics were
impressed. http://www.nmsi.ac.uk/review/phillips.htm
: Are liquid computers impervious to EMP [Electro-Magnetic Pulse] effects?
Should the military keep liquid computers as backups? Is programming wet?
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# Black Holes Could Be Major Power Source. WASHINGTON (Reuters) Black holes,
those invisible matter-sucking drains thought to lurk in galaxies' hearts,
may be the force behind half the energy released since the universe began.
http://news.excite.com/news/r/990910/14/science-space-holes
: Are black holes a better power source than hot or cold fusion? Could black
holes eliminate smog? Should we lobby power firms to utilize black holes??
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SkeptiLinks:
@ US Army Special Operations Field Manual Library:
http://www-douzzer.ai.mit.edu:8080/somans.html
@ US Army Chemical, Biological, & Radiological Defense Field Manual Library
http://www-douzzer.ai.mit.edu:8080/nbcmans.html
# Ebola-Like Virus Kills 73 In Congo Gold Mine:
http://news.excite.com/news/r/990910/16/science-health-congo
@ Nuclear Weapons in the End Times - Does The Bible Predict A Nuclear
Holocaust? http://www.lamblion.com/Web06-09.htm
@ Royal Rife Technology: http://www.rt66.com/~rifetech/
@ Art Bell Parody: http://www.anomalous-images.com/He-3.ram
# UFO Resource Center Buzzed By UFO: http://sightings.com/ufo4/center.htm
@ Guerrilla broadcasting: http://www-douzzer.ai.mit.edu:8080/guerrilla.html
@ Tesla: inventor of modernity http://www-douzzer.ai.mit.edu:8080/tesla.html
@ The Palimpsest. Nietzsche was so sane it drove him mad -- Charles Fourier
was so mad he attained a kind of perfect sanity. The palimpsestic theory
of theory: http://www.hermetic.com/bey/palimpsest.html
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