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# Greek Gods In Florida. (BBC) Miami police find a hoard of priceless
ancient artefacts stolen from a museum in Greece nine years ago.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_447000/447618.stm
: Have you found or stolen any Greek gods lately? Are you a Greek god? Were
you ever stolen? Are you bitter about that? Have you blasted humanity yet?
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@ The Hundredth Monkey. You've often heard references to the "Hundredth
Monkey" phenomena, but did you really know what it was? It is shown to
exist scientifically, yet the cause can only be something outside of our
normal reality. http://www.spiritual-endeavors.org/free/100monk-all.htm
: Do you believe in magic? Does it work for you? Can anything but magic ex-
plain the 100th Monkey effect? Have you ever read THE FRINGES OF REASON??
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# Cyberpower to the people - Forget demos, "hactivism" is the new political
weapon. East Timorese human rights campaigners threatened to mobilise an
army of a hundred teenagers around the world to wreak havoc in Indonesia.
By hacking into government computers, they would disrupt vital communica-
tions, drain bank accounts, alter flight bookings and redirect military
strikes. This threat is the latest to have sprung from a new union of
pressure groups and computer hackers. And while many activists welcome the
novel weapon in their armoury, it is still illegal and, some fear, open to
abuse. http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19990918/newsstory10.html
: Have you waged cyberwar lately? Who have you attacked? Who's attacked you?
Who won? Were your battles decided in real or virtual space? How many died?
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# Room to let; easy access; all utilities. Space station glovebox ready for
scientists to start designing experiments. A versatile experiment facility
for the International Space Station moved closer to flight recently with
delivery of the ground-test model to NASA's MSFC. The Microgravity Science
Glovebox Ground Unit will be used to test hardware and procedures for the
flight model of the glovebox aboard the ISS's U.S. Laboratory Module,
Destiny. http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/msad14sep99_1.htm
: Have you designed any microgravity experiments lately? Do they work? What
did you learn? Do you barf in microgravity? Can gene.mods fix that? How??
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# Asteroids and tsunami: Big asteroids are extra deadly when they strike the
ocean, carving aquatic craters, sending huge waves in all directions. Such
tsunami can devastate shores thousands of miles away. Bad news for people
living in coast zones, but it'd be a lucky break for the rest of mankind:
The same impact on land would toss dust high into the atmosphere, blocking
sunlight for many months, possibly causing global starvation & mass extin-
ctions. http://explorezone.com/columns/space/1999/september_tsunami.htm
: What steps have you taken to prevent asteroid strikes? Do you pray to gods
or demons or aliens; or design meteor-killer missiles; or are you useless??
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# A big bathroom break: Spaceships may run on their crew's organic waste.
Engage dark matter! "I'M TRYING AS HARD AS I CAN, Captain," exclaims
Scotty, the strain etching lines in his forehead. "I can't give you any
more!" But unlike Star Trek's Enterprise, future spacecraft might use
a less savoury energy supply than Scotty's beloved dilithium crystals:
human waste. http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19990918/newsstory6.html
: Is spaceflight a shitty bizness? Are you naturally endowed for starfaring?
Should cosmonauts be selected for their digestive attributes? Do you exude?
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# UK Astronomer: Belief in UFOs 'damaging'. NO EVIDENCE exists that Earth
has been visited by aliens, said Jacqueline Mitton of the Royal Astronom-
ical Society, who appeared with an inflatable alien. She thinks obsession
with UFOs has delayed legitimate research into intelligent life elsewhere.
http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/99/09/15/timnwsnws06001.html?999
: Do you need evidence? Do you believe whatever the hell you want to believe
regardless of evidence? Do you have a blow-up alien sex toy? Is it sacred??
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@ MORE MARTIAN ANOMALIES. From: "Steve Wingate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This is an area from ab104205, processed directly from the raw image
and deconvoluted using Max Ent. Holger found this one. He has an eye
for pyramids ;^) Have been to Chitzen Itza and this one is very similar.
Were the Annunaki the gods of the Martians, Egyptians, Mayans, etc...?
ftp://ftp.anomalous-images.com/pub/anomalou/0Test2_MaxEnt_x2.jpg
: What're your favorite Martian & Lunar & Terrestrial anomalies? What're the
signal-to-moise ratios? How good's the resolution? What's the verification?
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UFO-Rama:
# Major UFO Sighting Over Monterrey, Mexico - Photos! Our city, Monterrey,
N.L. was visited again last Sunday by a strange-shaped UFO and this time
was filmed not only by a TV crew but also by several other people. This is
a major sighting involving multiple witnesses, media people, commercial
airplanes and air traffic controllers in an unprecedented situation here
in central Mexico. http://www.sightings.com/ufo4/mont.htm
@ PERSONAL CONTACT EXPERIENCEs (PCEs). UK investigator/author Jenny Randle
writes: Abductions. I first investigated such a case in the UK 20 years
ago. For 7 years I worked with clinical psychologists and attended about a
dozen regression experiments on varied cases. http://caus.org/pc091599.htm
# CROP CIRCLEs. New Crop Circles in Prince Edward Island. Preliminary
Report: More Saskatchewan Crop Circles http://caus.org/ccr091599.htm
@ UFO REPORTs - UFOs Over Ship in the Pacific Ocean. It was April, 1967. I
was a soldier in the U.S.Army onboard the troop ship U.S.S.Geiger. We were
enroute to The Republic of Viet Nam. Our position was somewhere between
the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippines in the middle of the Pacific
Ocean. It was very clear, around 2300 HRS. We could see every star in
the sky! http://caus.org/pc091599.htm or http://caus.org/mu091599.htm
# UFO GEOMETRY 101 - Flying Triangles: Port Byron, New York - Hartsville,
South Carolina - Troup County, Georgia: http://caus.org/ft091499.htm
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