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@ SUV Test: http://www.detnews.com/EDITPAGE/0002/05/wright/wright.htm
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# Scientists Envision Nuked-Up Hot Rods For Space Travel. Now this from
the realm of the really far out: Have Bombs, Will Travel. Want to go
to Mars? Bombs away. Detonate some nuclear warheads, hang on and
three months later you're there. Save 6,000 or so bombs, by the way,
for the trip home. http://www.abqtrib.com/science/020400_stars.shtml
: What's your favorite method of space travel? How many nukes d'ya have for
a trip to Tau Ceti? Is this a good way to recycle nuclear weapons? Will this
only encourage more weapons-building? Will we 'accidentally' nuke a city or
three whilst preparing for a long voyage? Is that how the cookie crumbles?
[BTW this concept is at least 40 years old -- not exactly the latest tech.]
@ FAST FORWARD: Up, up and away! Forget cloning, artificial intelligence and
missions to Mars - the first decade of the new millennium belongs to the
comic-book movie. Which superhero should make the transition to the silver
screen? http://fastforward.iafrica.com/soapbox/index.htm?src_id=tmp0405
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# Prostitutes paid to quit. ABUJA, Nigeria(AP) A state that recently enacted
Islamic law is offering to pay $250 to every prostitute willing to give up
her trade & get married. The payments, which have so far been accepted by
27 ex-prostitutes, are designed to help the women set up small businesses.
Dozens of prostitutes have already fled the state, fearing prosecution.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563976677-6ec
: Does your belief system prescribe/proscribe prostitution? Does your faith
maintain a monopoly on whoring? Are all the leaders of your politico/econo/
religious system whores/pimps/johns? What's your favorite form of marketing?
# Prisoner's rosary mulled by courts - religious paraphernalia confiscated:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563974148-401
# Dalai Lama blesses escaped teen lama, skips lunar New Year tradition:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563968415-d23
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# NASA listens for Mars signal - Europe, N. America mount largest effort:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563917010-0b0
# ROCK HUNTER FINDS SECOND MARS METEORITE KNOWN IN U.S. - Tab Hunter Finds
10 Billionth Tab: http://CNN.com/2000/TECH/space/02/04/mars.rocks/
: Have you lost/found/stolen anything nifty from/in/near space lately? Is it
expensive? Are y'r efforts driven by economics, ideology, power-lust, logic,
thrill-seeking, hypnosis, necessity, compulsion, mind-control rays, boredom?
# SPACEVIEWS 2000.06. Shuttle Launch Rescheduled for 11 Feb; Data Glitch
Causes NEAR Safe Mode; Progress Docks with Mir; NASA Plans Interim Control
Module Launch; More Radio Telescopes Enlisted in Polar Lander Search; Sci-
entists Examine Options for Future Mars Missions; Kazakhstan Drops Proton
Launch Ban; Atlas Launches Communications Satellite; Russia Launches Mil-
itary Satellite; Upcoming Launch to Test New Rocket, Reentry Technology;
Japanese Satellite to Open X-Ray Astronomy "Golden Age"; SpaceDev's Uphill
Fight for Commercial Space Exploration: http://spaceviews.com/2000/0207/
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# CIA SAYS FIRED ATTORNEY FAILED POLYGRAPH TESTS. A lawyer who claims he was
fired by the CIA because of anti-Semitism says he may sue the spy agency.
And live to tell about it? http://CNN.com/2000/US/02/07/cia.israel.ap/
# It isn't only anti-Semites who, in T.S. Eliot's ugly words, find "free-
thinking Jews undesirable." The Holocaust is still contested territory:
http://www.theatlantic.com/cgi-bin/o/issues/2000/02/002guttenplan.htm
: Are you anti-Semitic? Are there Semites in your background? Are you sure?
Since everybody is ultimately related to everyone else, isn't all chauvinism
just self-loathing? Do you loathe yourself? Do you have good reasons? Do the
rest of us loathe you too? Are we justified? Will you end your misery soon?
@ The Earth Rainbow Network - "One Planet, One People, One Peace" - "Not a
single human can achieve alone what 2 human beings can do when attuned to
the same vibration. Two candles are brighter than one. Imagine what a
thousand candles can do... a million candles... 6 billion candles! We
are all the living prophecy, awakening to our Unity, One with Life, One
with the Universe." http://www.cybernaute.com/earthconcert2000/
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# Rising tides threaten ageing nuclear stations - Government scientists
and experts in the nuclear industry are preparing for a doomsday scenario
caused by rising tides around Britain's ageing atomic power stations:
www.newsunlimited.co.uk/observer/uk_news/story/0%2C3879%2C133186%2C00.html
# Global Warming Scam. "The White House has pulled off a magnificent public
relations scam on the global warming issue, with great deftness & apparent
success... President Clinton's final address to the nation raised fears of
'deadly heat waves,' more frequent droughts, flooding of coastal areas,
and general economic disruption." http://www.sepp.org/NewSEPP/GWscam.htm
: Are you threatened by global warming? Is it a scam? When island nations &
nuclear plants & coastal cities start submerging, will you change y'r mind?
Will it be too late then? D'ya enjoy mucking-up Earth? Are you working to
prepare the biosphere for the Reptoids? Are you well-paid for your efforts?
@ The Wisdom of Gaia. There is critical need for a wisdom that can help us
reestablish our once harmonious relationship with nature. Such wisdom has
always been a part of humanity's spiritual life, encompassing a living
earth within a living solar system and universe. This superior "knowing"
contained in the world's mythologies provides portals to the inner earth
and cosmos. http://www.paganet.org/pnn/1999/Mabon/Feature_Sample1.html
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# Round-the-world reed boat trip set. ARICA, Chile (AP) A U.S. adventurer is
set to sail on a 5-year, round-the-world voyage in an unusual ship: a reed
boat built by Bolivian Aymara Indians on the shores of Lake Titicaca. The
expedition's objective is to support the theory that it was possible for
ancient civilizations to cross huge ocean expanses in reed ships; that the
vessels could have been a key factor in human migration and the spread of
civilization. http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563947541-b10
: Have'ya seeded/dispersed/promulgated any civilizations lately? Will humans
spread across the galaxy/universe in the equivalent of reed boats? Will we
sink or swim?
@ Too few people today remember R. Buckminster Fuller, the inventor that
buckeyballs <http://tiger.chm.bris.ac.uk/cm1/AndrewJ/Welcome.htm> and
buckeytubes <http://sciam.com/exhibit/042897gear/042897nano.html> are
named after. He created the <http://www.westnet.com/~crywalt/unfold.html>
world's best map, the <http://www.wnet.org/archive/bucky/car.html> still
amazing Dymaxion car, a <http://www.wnet.org/archive/bucky/bathroom.html>
shower that used 1 cup of water; he coined the term "spaceship earth" and
founded the <http://www.worldgame.org/> World Game Institute. Let's not
forget spaceship earth err... the <http://www.intercot.com/edc/> geodesic
dome, either. Via http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Commentary/
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