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# Body scans to make passwords a thing of the past. Mindful that current
security methods may be hindering business and e-commerce, a new genera-
tion of technology companies is developing ways to confirm your identity
by analyzing your retina, fingerprints, facial features and voice
patterns. http://www.modbee.com/technology/story/0,1161,135155,00.html
# Cosmic Bar Codes: Chandra X-ray Observatory has peered into the nucleus of
a distant galaxy & detected warm gas flowing away from a black hole. The
spectrum of active galaxy NGC 5548 is the most precise ever made with an
x-ray telescope. http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast22feb_1m.htm
: Would you rather scan humans, aliens, galaxies, deities/demons, products,
rasters, me? Have you precisely identified anything lately? Have they ident-
ified you? Do they have you at a disadvantage? Will they tattoo bar-codes in
your skin; implant chips under your scalp; stick wires up your kazoo? When?
# Predictions for a wired human body. (IDG) "There will be five IP devices
on every body... they'll be linked somehow on a body network." Zap me:
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/02/18/wired.human.idg/index.html
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# Robo-cat makes purrfect companion. (BBC) A new robot cat joins the world's
growing techno-menagerie. But are there enough robo-mice for it to torture
& kill? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_652000/652293.stm
# Thinking is robot's play - I think I'll have a quart of lubricant:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_628000/628270.stm
# Robo-Roo helps crash safety - now some robo-pedestrians would be nice:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_628000/628269.stm
# Robo-pup attacks toy market - leaves robo-dog-turds all over the floor:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_341000/341189.stm
: What's your favorite robot? Do robo-predators need robo-prey? Who has to
scoop up the nuts/bolts/capacitors they excrete? Who oils their hinges? Will
you be a willing slave to a robo-beast? Are you already? Is it fun? How so?
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@ The "Let's Make a Deal" Aliens. The supposed "saucer crashes" of the
1940's and later were not at all the result of saucer "accidents" but a
clever indirect offering of high technology to any of the governments that
would take the bait. http://www.anomalous-images.com/text/aliendeal.html
@ Further findings of Project MILAB: Looking behind the alien/military ab-
duction agenda: http://www.visitations.com/ufofiles/abductions/index.htm
@ "The Reptilians: Humanity's Historical Link to the Serpent Race" - do you
have alligator skin? http://www.anomalous-images.com/text/reptilians.txt
: Have you negotiated any deals with ETs lately? Are you greatly enriched,
hugely powerful, sexually satisfied, physically/mentally enhanced? Why not?
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# Genetics experts focus on better use of cloning. GRAPEVINE -- Genetic
cloning has caused such a stir that the controversy may have clouded the
fact that this scientific advancement can actually improve our lives.
http://www.star-telegram.com/news/doc/1047/1:FRONT26/1:FRONT260222100.html
# Ban on designer babies 'may be lifted.' The blanket ban on genetic
engineering of humans should be lifted if the technology for making
so-called designer babies is shown to be safe, says an Australian
philosopher. http://www.smh.com.au/news/0002/16/text/national20.html
: What's your favorite use of cloning? Would you rather be cloned in virtual
or physical reality? Is there infinite space in a VR universe for unlimited
clones? Will public opinion limit your options there? Would you cell out??
# UK: Ministers promote genetic engineering. It's for our own good:
www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000140326706927&pg=/et/00/2/20/ntoof20.html
# One step nearer to cloning a human being - cloned piglets on parade:
www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000140326706927&pg=/et/00/2/20/wtoof120.html
# Tooth farms of the future will make dentures a thing of the past:
www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000140326706927&pg=/et/00/2/20/wtoof20.html
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@ Welcome Aboard the Pole Shift! We're about to go on a Journey. All Aboard,
for the trip of a Lifetime. "In a polar region there is a continual depos-
ition of ice, which is not symmetrically distributed about the pole. The
earth's rotation acts on these unsymmetrically deposited masses [of ice],
and produces centrifugal momentum that is transmitted to the rigid crust
of the earth. The constantly increasing centrifugal momentum produced in
this way will, when it has reached a certain point, produce a movement
of the earth's crust over the rest of the earth's body, and this will
displace the polar regions toward the equator. " -- Albert Einstein
Slippin' and-a slidin' - http://sites.netscape.net/gsussnzl/poleshift
: Are you ready for the great polar relocation, the slithering of Earth into
a new attitude? Have you strapped your house/apartment/tent down firmly? Can
global warming interfere with the ice buildup, forestalling the shift? When?
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# GAMMA RAY KNIFE SLICED THROUGH RATS' APPETITE. When obese rats got a
dose of gamma radiation to their hypothalamus, they lost 15 percent
of their weight. And they did so in a stable and sustained manner.
Is this a better alternative to stomach stapling and diet drugs?
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=21220
# Some stores to get irradiated meat - bacteria nuked to death:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564494208-cb4
: Have you been irradiated lately? Would you rather irradiate edible flesh/
plants/microbes before or after death? Would you like to be irradiated for
weight control, tumor reduction, cosmetic/glandular/mental enhancement, or
just for the hell of it? Does your skin/head/genitalia have a nice glow??
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# Banned sect member dies in China. BEIJING (AP) Chinese authorities force-
fed a hunger-striking member of the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement,
injuring his wind pipe, infecting his lungs and eventually causing his
death: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564502217-088
@ The Mormons <http://www.mormon.org/> can help you overcome your desire to
mastrubate <http://www.phallic.org/mormon-masturbation.txt> by "curing you
of your difficulty" with this guide to self control. But you must always
remember: Satan Never Gives Up! via: http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Sex/
: What's your favorite sect? Do they offer techniques for self-discipline?
Have you disciplined yourself lately? Has anyone else disciplined you? Have
they killed you yet? Does your belief system promote force-feeding? Where?
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