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@ Lose yourself in the maze: http://www.enigma3.com/
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# SciFi grandmaster A.E. van Vogt dead at 87. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) Science
fiction writer A.E. van Vogt, whose telepathic mutants, superhuman races &
dangerous creatures from outer space blazed a trail for the "Alien" films,
was buried Monday after dying last week at 87. Alfred van Vogt wrote 85
novels & short-story collections, including such postwar sci-fi classics
as "Slan," "The Voyage of the Space Beagle," the "World of Null-A" trilogy
and "The Weapon Shops of Isher." GENRE'S "DEFINING VOICE" - inspired ALIEN
and STAR TREK: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000131/22/people-vanvogt
: Have you applied any non-Aristotlean thought lately? Do you transcend lin-
earity, cause'n'effect, temporal bounds? Are you more than human? How much?
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# Attempt to hear Mars lander fails. PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - The latest
attempt to receive a signal from NASA's Mars Polar Lander failed, but
engineers will make another try this week to contact the probe.
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563776890-f2b
# Listening for Mars Polar Lander. (NASA) More telescopes have joined
the search for Mars Polar Lander after Stanford scientists failed to
confirm a radio signal from the missing spacecraft last week. Gotta
find it soon: http://spacescience.com/headlines/y2000/ast01feb_1.htm
: Have you lost any space probes lately? Are they hit by debris, stolen by
aliens/demons/deities, lost by operator error, victims of fate, cursed? How
many space probes can you afford to lose? Can you afford to NOT lose them??
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# Experiencer Perspective by Dianne. A friend and I saw a UFO larger than
the houses that lined our street pass overhead. The circular craft had
an underside that was rough and dark, and red and green lights alternated
around the mid-section: http://www.peer-mack.org/pers_exp.html
# A STRANGE ENCOUNTER WITH AN UNKNOWN VEHICLE. It was not an aircraft, heli-
copter or blimp because these all have aircraft lighting and this did not,
it also darted up and down and left to right very repidly, eliminating any
known aircraft in exhistance today. http://www.caus.org/mu020100.htm
: Have you seen any unknown vehicles lately? Did they see you? Do they have
lights flashing in patterns that are hypnotic, stimulating, disturbing, ter-
rifying, orgasmic? Were you transformed, abducted, obliterated, enhanced??
@ Experiencers' Guide to Therapy. People who feel they may have had an
extraordinary experience, "experiencers," may benefit from the support
of a therapist. http://www.peer-mack.org/expguide.html#anchor64862
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# Untangling cloning's most difficult snags - Scientists find how to improve
their often-low success rate. (CSM) Experiments reported today show how to
boost dramatically the efficiency of animal cloning. The researchers say
this won't lead immediately to a cloning zoo. But it will give scientists
a powerful tool with which to study the biological snags that have made
mammalian cloning, in particular, an almost no-win exercise.
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/02/01/fp2s1-csm.shtml
: Have your cloning experiments gone badly? Have you succeeded with cloning
lately? Was it a real chore? Should cloning be automated? Would you entrust
y'r clones to computers, robots, deities/demons, aliens, me? D'ya need help?
# Dolly's Dad Goes Whole Hog. A scientist who helped clone the sheep Dolly
pigs being bred to provide organs for humans needing transplants. Oink.
Oink. http://enquirer.com/editions/2000/01/31/loc_dolly_scientist.html
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@ For those of you who missed Superbowl XXXIV <http://www.superbowl.com/>
(GASP!), you can still catch <http://www.adcritic.com/superbowl/> all the
commercials. Bad Cheeta! Via http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Television/
@ Review: http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/stories/opinions/0,7802,2430261,00.html
: Are you a willing mind-control subject? Are you reprogrammed by SuperBowl
TV ads? Does this programming overide your alien implant? Is there tension?
Are the ads more interesting than the game? Is the game more involving than
sex? Is sex more enveloping than life? Is life just a game? Who's playing?
@ TV is about emotion, not argument. Magic, not science. Dreams, not art.
Legend, not history: http://mediachannel.org/views/interviews/lapham.shtml
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# Armies of brainless robots to make perfect labourers. TEAMS of mindless
robots can achieve complex tasks without communicating with each other,
say Canuck roboticists, who were inspired by ants' behaviour. Armies of
such cheap, expendable robots might one day help build a base on Mars - or
simply mow your lawn. http://newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns2223111
@ ROBOT WARS: http://news.excite.com/news/bw/000128/ny-robot-wars
: Do you prefer your robots to be brainy, brainless, soulful, soulless, big,
tiny, sensual, menacing, Canadian, enthusiastic, devout, violent, or abject?
Would you like to make/fuck/be a robot yourself? Are you robotic already??
# Other Entrance Exams Explored. COLORADO SPRINGS (AP) Standard college-
admissions exams don't reveal certain talents, so select teen-agers are
going to get an alternative test - which includes making a robot out of
Legos. http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000201/09/admissions-test
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@ Giordano Bruno Burnt 400 Years Ago. Philosopher/magician Giordano Bruno,
condemned as an obstinate heretic, was denied the customary mercy of
strangulation and was burned alive. Bruno’s philosophy is incomprehensible
today except to specialists. Few people would have understood it in his
own time, but he took a dangerous interest in European traditions of high
magic, rediscovered in the Renaissance & originating in the gnostic cults,
Hermetic texts, mystery religions and occult speculations of the classical
world. http://www.historytoday.com/article/article.cfm?article_id=1644
: Have you burnt any philosophers lately? Are they better than firewood? Do
they smoke much? Do you? Should all heretics/philosophers/liberals be burnt?
Would that solve the energy crisis? Would the air pollution be intolerable?
@ Giordano Bruno: http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/People/bruno.html
@ GB: www.infidels.org/library/historical/john_kessler/giordano_bruno.html
@ Folly of Giordano Bruno: http://www.setileague.org/editor/brunoalt.htm
@ GB: http://cadre.sjsu.edu/switch/sound/articles/wendt/folder6/ng6212.htm
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