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: No suitcase nukes detonated during production of this bulletin. Whew...
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@ Open up a portal to another dimension: http://www.jodi.org/
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# Your Ancestors May Be Martian. Nanobes from Mars may account for the
origin of life on Earth - but where did they originally come from?
http://www.space.com/science/astronomy/rocks_fromspace_991108.html
: What planet did you come from? How did you get here? What do you want?
# How an Asteroid Impact Causes Extinction:
http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/ast.htm
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# POL FEARS SOVIETS HID A-BOMBS ACROSS U.S. WASHINGTON - A congressional
Russia expert says the FBI is afraid to ask Russia a direct, potentially
shocking question: Are suitcase-sized nuclear bombs buried in the U.S. -
including New York? http://www.nypost.com/110799/news/17726.htm
# Future flu pandemic could kill 200,000 in US. NEW YORK (Reuters) Another
deadly flu pandemic is "highly likely, if not inevitable," according to
experts, and could take the lives of more than 200,000 persons in the US
alone. <shiver> http://news.excite.com/news/r/991108/18/health-flu10
: Are you more concerned with suitcase nukes, flu pandemics, degenerate rok'
n'rol, yuppification, alien abductions, creeping fascism, ozone holes, me??
What's the worst thing that's happening to you right now? D'ya fight back?
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# Japan reprimands cell researcher. TOKYO (AP) The Japanese govt criticized
the ethics of a researcher at a Tokyo university who combined a human cell
with a cow's egg - a procedure officials said was too similar to cloning.
But the scientist defended it as unrelated to cloning and merely aimed at
studying leukemia blood cells. He warned that Japan would fall behind the
United States and other Western nations in basic research on cells. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561984828-6c3
: Do you want to be cloned? Wanna be hybridized with a cow? Is international
clone competition heightening? Is there a clone gap? Will losers be eaten??
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# Researchers Stung By Claims Of AIDS Origin. PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) An
eminent U.S. medical research center will release lab specimens from
a 1950s polio vaccine project in Africa in hopes of dispelling claims
that its scientists inadvertently caused the AIDS epidemic.
http://news.excite.com/news/r/991109/01/science-aids-polio
: Is AIDS accidental, deliberate, natural, extraterrestrial? Were you invol-
ved in AIDS development/promulgation? Are your masters happy with your work?
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# Austalian Fishers Claim To Have Videotaped UFO. (AAP) A group of profes-
sional fishermen said yesterday they had video footage showing a recent
possible UFO sighting off the coast of northern New South Wales. Strange,
dome-shaped object : http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/aussieufo_u.htm
: Have you taped any UFOs lately? Have any UFOs taped you? Which is better?
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# Interfaces: The Century's Top 10. (TechRev) The world we experience is
incresingly defined by the intermediaries between us and our machines.
Betcha can't make it through the day without using all 10. Just try:
http://www.techreview.com/articles/nov99/kreuze.htm
: What's your favorite interface? Are you an interface yourself? Does your
alien implant interface well with you? Do you dream of electric sheep? How?
# ACID DREAMS - LSD, the CIA, and Your Brain:
http://www.erowid.org/library/books_online/acid_dreams/acid_dreams1.shtml
@ PSYCHOACTIVE VAULTS: http://erowid.org/psychoactives/psychoactives.shtml
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# Future fantastic, future frightening? (BBC) In the future, will babies
be born in artificial wombs or even in surrogate pig mothers? Will time
travel allow distant stars to be visited? And will telepathy become a
reality as brains and computers interface? So bright I gotta wear shades:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_505000/505022.stm
# ALSO - The future's not all bright:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_504000/504682.stm
# Scientist puts computer in control:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_503000/503552.stm
# Vision of the future - peek-a-boo:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_472000/472796.stm
: What's your favorite future prospect? Are you ready for immortality, time
travel, intergalactic excursions, teledildonics, expanded corruption, goo?
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# The Jesus Orgy. Now, I've gone to black churches and gospel concerts
throughout the South (to hear stirring renditions of "This Little Light of
Mine" and "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" and to reflect on the comparative
dead-dullness of the thousands of bar mitzvahs I've dozed through), but
yesterday's service was by far the most overwhelming revival experience
I've ever witnessed, straight out of Levi-Strauss or something. Gloriosky:
http://www.nypress.com/col1.cfm?content_id=578&now=11/8/99&content_section=1
# Snake Worship. The snake ranks second only to the cow and is an important
figure in Hindu mythology, especially in south India. Because of its swift
and gliding movement, scaly skin, hypnotic eyes and poisonous bite, it is
feared and therefore the subject of myth and legend. Inevitably, it was
worshipped in the hope that veneration would make it protect and not harm
its devotees. SSsss... http://www.acornis.com/india/imystica/snakewor.html
: What's your most overwhelming spiritual experience? Which snakes do you
worship? Are they protective, harmful, orgiastic, reviving, insinuating??
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# Greens Warn on GM Trees. BRUSSELS (Reuters) An international environmental
group said more & more genetically modified (GM) trees were being cultiva-
ted without reliable safeguards & called for a global moratorium on their
release. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991109/05/science-genes-trees
: Will mutant GM trees take over the planet? Will they be smarter than you?
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"Boys will be boys, say the endrocrinologists, because their molecules
tell them so. That quick shot of male juice [to the fetus] at eight weeks
is exactly what little boys are made of, and the implications have caused
all manner of heated dispute in scientific ranks. And when the argument
spills out of the scientific community into the political arena, better
hang on to your gonads, guys. Androgens are where our future forks...
Anti-male fanatics may have science on their side when they get around
to technological tinkering with the nature of the human male."
--H.Rheingold, BRAVE NEW MALE, in EXCURSIONS TO THE FAR SIDE OF THE MIND
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