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# SUN HEATS UP. (NASA) -- Sol appears to be in an unsettled state, possibly
Utah. Minor short-lived sunspot groups are appearing at various locations
on the Sun's disk and small flares are erupting in many of the active reg-
ions. This morning two intense solar flares erupted from sunspot group
#8882. Impressive coronal mass ejections followed both flares. Geomagnetic
activity could begin in 24-48 hours. Updates: http://www.SpaceWeather.com
# SOL ZAP! (NASA) Last week an interplanetary wind storm hit our planet with
a gale of energetic particles from the Sun. During the storm a strong gust
of solar wind triggered aurora captured by the Ultraviolet Imager on NASAs
Polar satellite. http://spacescience.com/headlines/y2000/ast02mar_1m.htm
: Has your planet been hit by solar flares / comets / black holes / gasbags
lately? Are your magnetic fields sizzling; your defensive shields ringing;
your supplies running low; your morale deteriorating? What can you do now?
# Comet "76/West-Kohoutek-Ikemura" appears to be on a collision course with
Mars. Bang. http://www.millenngroup.com/repository/cometary/marshit.html
@ Comet observation messages: http://earthchangestv.efc-inc.com/Comets/
@ Comet simulator: http://astroarts.com/comets/2000/0076P/java-orbit.html
@ Confirmation? http://earthchangestv.efc-inc.com/Comets/indexmesg/8.html
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$ Promiscuity. Contrary to belief, females are remarkably promiscuous & have
evolved an array of tricks to determine who exactly will be the father of
their offspring. This text introduces the world of sexual competition,
where males & females vie with each other to maximize reproductive suc-
cess. http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0571193609/humannaturecom/
# WonderWoman Ropes Cops: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000302/12/odd-police
# Death Threat Ends Promo: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000302/12/odd-naked
: Are you promiscuous, inventive, survival-oriented? Will you do whatever it
takes to exceed your maximum potential? Did you trademark/copyright/patent
yourself yet? Are you a threat to others? Are you taken seriously? Really??
# SQRATS! Whaddya get when you cross a New York City squirrel with a rat?
"A sqrat!" says an entrepreneur who goes by the name Ivy Supersonic. She
claims that such creatures exist and she's got the trademark & marketing
plan to prove it. http://cnn.com/2000/US/02/29/fringe/sqrats/index.html
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# Galileo spacecraft may be crashed. TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - A NASA spacecraft
exploring Jupiter and its moons may be deliberately crashed to avoid any
chance that it could hit & contaminate the moon Europa, where simple life
forms may exist. Galileo, launched in 1989, has traveled 500 mln miles to
study the giant planet. NASA is considering crashing the spacecraft into
Jupiter or one of its icy moons in 2002 because it might still contain
microbes from Earth. Scientists suspect that Europa has an ocean beneath
its ice shell that might contain simple life forms, like creationists or
Mormons. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564683733-46c
# Six Billion Miles And Counting - Pioneer 10 checks in from beyond Pluto.
(NASA) Last month NASA received a weak signal from Pioneer 10, twice as
far from the Sun as Pluto and speeding toward the constellation Taurus.
The hardy spacecraft, so low on power that it can't transmit and maneuver
at the same time, is still returning data from the outer solar system.
This is also a good time of year to see where Pioneer 10 is heading from
your own back yard. http://spacescience.com/headlines/y2000/ast02mar_1.htm
: Is a spacecraft a terrible thing to waste? Have you wasted any spacecraft
lately? Is that just part of the price of conquering the universe? Have the
Reptoids wasted many spacecraft? Do they crash them here for tactical gain?
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# Ancient stone tools found in Asia. (AP) 800,000-year-old stone tools that
rival the work of ancient African artisans have been found in east Asia,
suggesting the widely separated early humans groups had equal tool-making
skills. The crafted stone tools, found in southern China near the border
with Vietnam, are more refined and older than cutting tools previously
found in the East Asian region. Researchers said the discovery disproves
a long-held belief that early humans in Asia lagged behind those in Africa
and the Middle East in tool-making skills. But they didn't have marketing
plans: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564693058-9fb
# Monster of a find - Creature painted on ancient vase may have been fossil.
Researchers have made a fossil discovery in the usually bone-free envir-
onment of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. One of the museum's well-known
vases, painted with a scene from The Iliad, displays the grinning, toothy
countenance of a huge fossil skull, a researcher believes. If confirmed,
it would be the earliest large fossil found in the world of art. Ancients
weren't dumb: http://dallasnews.com/science/40203_FOSSILVASE28.html
: What's your favorite ancient find? Do you have any old tools laying about?
If you forget them for a few hundred years, would even your old toy carpen-
ter's toolkit be worth something? Did you post it on eBay yet? How much??
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# New GI Joe Honors WWII Navajo Code Talkers. Lift the foot-tall toy's
arm and he says 7 phrases in Navajo, followed by English translations.
"Request air support" and "attack by machine gun" are among them.
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564687171-d21
# U.S. Asians Seen as 'Alien,' Study Finds. Open hostility and bigotry
against Asian Americans may have declined since World War II, when
Japanese Americans were incarcerated as security risks, but the bias
remains: http://live.altavista.com/scripts/editorial.dll?ei=1556825&ern=y
# Computer glitch creates billionaires - but only for a few hours. Ratz.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564688808-b0e
@ FRENCH ENGINEER Guy Negre has developed an engine using compressed air
that gives NO POLLUTION. http://www.zeropollution.com/zeropollution/
@ PSEUDO-NET - Prime Time whenever you want it! http://www.pseudo.com/
# U.S. Agencies Shy of New Oklahoma Building. OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) Plans
for a new federal building to replace the one blasted in the 1995 Oklahoma
City bombing have hit a snag -- not enough federal agencies want to move
in: http://live.altavista.com/scripts/editorial.dll?ei=1559387&ern=y
# FBI Didn't Plan For Waco Blaze. DALLAS (AP) -- Ten days before the deadly
inferno at the Branch Davidian compound, the FBI told prosecutors, it had
no plans to battle any blazes. They really weren't expecting a big fire,
eh? http://live.altavista.com/scripts/editorial.dll?ei=1556218&ern=y
# McCaffrey defends Mexico - "Their drugs are as good as any around!"
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564684555-f0b
# Russian HIV cases surge - 90% of infected are young drug addicts:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564690098-313
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