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@ The Spelvin Collection: http://web.utk.edu/~blyons/spelvin.html
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# New lead for fireball riddle. (BBC) Scientists think they can explain one
of the great mysteries of the natural world: ball lightning. These bright,
hovering spheres of light seen during thunderstorms have been reported as
far back as the Middle Ages. They can be as small as tennis balls or as
big as beach balls. nothing more than burning particles of silicon:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_628000/628709.stm
@ Links: C&P Engineering, UCNZ: http://www.cape.canterbury.ac.nz/
@ Ball Lightning: http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/tesla/ballgtn.html
: Is burnt silicon too simple an explanation? Are mystic/divine/alien forces
required? How many UFOs/ghosts/manifestations are just burnt silicon? Where?
@ UFO Folklore Ctr: http://www.qtm.net/~geibdan/newsd/mich/implants.html
@ Unnatural Museum - UFO Hoaxes: http://unmuseum.mus.pa.us/ufohoax.htm
@ Rockefeller UFO Report: http://www.parascope.com/nb/rockyufo.htm
@ How To Watch a UFO: http://www.4w.com/mueller/astro/ufo.html
@ UFOWorld: http://web2.airmail.net/yogi/ufoworld.html
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@ NUCLEAR BLAST MAPPER. See just how exciting a nuclear blast can be!!!
Choose the size of the bomb you want to use, and then enter the address/
location you want to bomb. A map shows the levels of radioactivity that
would encircle the location, with vivid descriptions of the carnage that
would ensue. http://pbs.org/wgbh/pages/amex/bomb/sfeature/mapablast.html
# Is This Aurora? Reports of a high-performance piloted replacement for the
SR-71 date back more than a decade. http://fas.org/irp/mystery/aurora.htm
# Government Cover-Up - X-Files Fan Killed For Knowing Too Much:
http://www.theonion.com/onion3603/xfiles_fan_killed.html
: What places would you like to nuke? Would you monitor the blast/effects?
Is it dangerous to know too much about nukes, monitors, strategy, tactics?
Do you know too much? Should you be terminated, just as a precaution? When?
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# WALK BY 'SUPERMAN' CREATES FALSE HOPES. Paralyzed people fooled by a
Super Bowl ad showing Christopher Reeve walking want to find out how
he was cured: http://CNN.com/2000/HEALTH/02/01/super.man.ap/
# TESTING THE FAITH - Surgery sets off Vatican power battle - Leading
conservative papal contender undergoes quadruple bypass - pray more:
http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/Times/timfgneur02002.html?999
: How strong are your faith, imagination, hopes, fear? Are y'r mental fields
transformative? Is power within your grasp? What power? What grasp? Where??
@ We can't all be special enough to pray to <http://netecho.twu.net/Holy/>
the mongoose. Also worship at http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Religion/
@ Happy stinkin' <http://www.groundhogsday.com/> GroundHogsDay. <zzzzzzz>
@ (IN)FINITE GAMES: http://alamut.com/subj/artiface/games/infiniteGames.html
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# Diet may influence groundhog. DENVER (AP) Why are Punxsutawney Phil & his
kin predicting the length of winter instead of hibernating on Groundhog
Day? A researcher suggests it may be their diet. "If they are feeding
naturally out in the wild, in general they wouldn't be coming above
ground." http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563803903-5d9
$ Eat It: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250986314
: Are all prophets manipulated? Should all prophets be eaten? Can radioac-
tive transgenic groundhog be bred to predict the onset of nuclear winter??
# Scientists Develop Most Efficient Mouse Cloning Strategy To Date, Create
Transgenic Clone http://sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/02/000201074406.htm
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# Museum shows off virtual world. NEW YORK (AP) When the new Hayden Planet-
arium opens to the public Feb. 19, it will not only show kids the heavens
but take them there, too. The American Museum of Natural History showed
off Tuesday what it says is "the most powerful virtual reality simulator
in the world," with a show that seems to transport visitors to the edge
of the known universe. "You can listen to the sun and hear it rumble."
Beam to http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563797002-6b3
# Life Imitates Art After Police Arrest Actors. LONDON (Reuters) -- British
police have agreed to pay damages to 11 Kurds whose lifelike rehearsal of
a Harold Pinter play about state oppression ended when police marksmen
stormed in with guns: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000202/08/odd-kurds
: Are virtual universes better than real ones? Do real universes intrude on
vitual representations with bothersome regularity? Is that the sun rumbling,
or an oncoming train? Is that a police drama, or are real cops shooting you?
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@ AI Bot Project - will allow participants to create their own 'bots' that
act as if they have artificial intelligence. With some some development,
good programmers and some luck, the bots should eventually interact with
each other as if they are humans. http://www.dotcomma.org/projects/aibots/
: Would'ya rather interact with humans, robots, aliens, animals, me? Are you
a member of the artificial intelligencia? When will 'bots, AIs, artificial &
enhanced lifeforms, be granted human rights? Would'ya vote for a 'bot? Would
any 'bots want to vote for you? Would you want a 'bot to marry your sister?
@ Dancer: The Dancing Robot: http://arti9.vub.ac.be/~walter/dancer.html
@ Mobile Robots Group: http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/groups/mrg/robots.html
$ Mondo-tronics' Robot Store: http://www.robotstore.com/
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@ THE RICHER GET RICHER ALGORITHM - Now let's add to the group selectionist
claims another concept - one familiar to the mathematicians of complexity.
Complex adaptive systems are learning machines made up of numerous compon-
ents. Neural nets and immune systems are particularly good examples. Both
apply an algorithm best expressed non-mathematically by Jesus of Nazareth:
"To him who hath it shall be given; from he who hath not even what he hath
shall be taken away." http://www.ix.de/tp/english/special/glob/2102/1.html
Via http://alamut.com/subj/evolution/selection_group/rich_get_richer.html
# Party Name a Real Vote-Getter. OTTAWA (Reuters) It only took a couple
of days of jokes from the prime minister on down to convince Canada's
newest political party that the acronym CCRAP just wasn't going to
make it. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000202/08/odd-party
: Do power/wealth/knowledge just naturally to those who already possess such
or are dark forces at work? Have your deities rigged the universe to favor
the favored? Are power struggles all a load of crap? Does the label fit?
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"Why not think of learning as a form of immunology?" --alamut
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