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@ Flattened: http://www.nerve.com/scripts/photoday.plx?48
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# "When Planets Attack..." Something flew over Southwestern Illinois in the
wee hours of 1/5/2000. Was it Venus, as the debunkers claim? Was it alien,
military? http://ufos.about.com/culture/ufos/library/weekly/mcurrent.htm
# "Reader's Sightings" A new batch of sightings every week, from YOU! See
it now: http://ufos.about.com/culture/ufos/library/bldata/blguidea.htm
@ *SEND ME YOUR SIGHTING!* For inclusion on the "Reader's Sightings" page.
Be sure to include the date and location of the sighting. Your name won't
be used, only initials. Send it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
: Have you sighted/reported/hallucinated/faked any UFOs lately? Have you
contributed to any UFO forums? Did you gain fame/fortune/infamy/scrutiny?
Will you keep your mouth shut next time? Will there be a 'text time'? Why?
# "In The News" - Did General Roger Ramey admit that he lied about Roswell?
http://ufos.about.com/culture/ufos/library/bldata/blnews.htm
# "The Disappearance of Frederich Valentich" He Vanished after reporting a
UFO... http://ufos.about.com/culture/ufos/library/weekly/aa033098.htm
@ "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About UFOs..." ..But didn't know who
to ask. http://ufos.about.com/culture/ufos/library/bldata/blguidea.htm
@ "U.S. UFO Sightings" A continuously updated database of UFO sighting
reports: http://ufos.about.com/culture/ufos/library/bldata/blsight2.htm
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# AURORA WARNING. (NASA) Residents of Canada and the northern United States
should be on the alert for aurora borealis during the night of March 5 and
morning of March 6. The best time to view aurorae is usually around local
midnight. Tonight's new moon will make even faint activity easy to see.
Early on March 5, 2000, the interplanetary magnetic field in the vicinity
of Earth developed a significant southward-directed component. This con-
dition often means that solar wind plasma can penetrate Earth's magneto-
sphere and trigger auroral activity. Data from NOAA's polar orbiting
meteorological satellites late on March 5 show an expanded auroral oval.
If this high level of activity continues, auroral displays could be
visible as far south as the Great Lakes states and in New England.
Continuing coverage of aurora: http://www.SpaceWeather.com
: Have you been irradiated lately? Do aurarae trigger your subconscious? Do
you have a strong compulsion to worship the sky gods? Do you have animal/
human/alien sacrifices ready? Will the sky gods be please with your gifts??
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# The Amazing Splitting Of Van Tassel's 'Giant Rock' - A Prophecy Fulfilled?
Or too many rock-climbers? <http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/split.htm> To
UFO researchers, Giant Rock is significant for other reasons. It was the
home & workplace of the enigmatic George Van Tassel. Van Tassel allegedly
made contact with extraterrestrials and was tutored by them on a variety
of subjects, including human, cellular rejuvenation. And that led to the
building of a structure called the Integratron. http://tcoto.da.ru
# Contactee Van Tassel's 'Giant Rock' In Mojave Desert Breaks Apart - gift
shop operators bereft: http://www.emissaryoflight.com/giant_rock.htm
: Have you seen many/any spirits/UFOs/drunks from atop Giant Rock? Was Van
Tassel's daughter really impregnated by a Martian there? Did concussion from
the nearby USMC artillery range crack The Rock? Are powers of Mentalphysics,
focussed through The Rock, now dissipated, free-floating haphazardly from
the Morongo Basin towards Los Angeles, to ignite a further catastrophe? Were
UFOlogy gatherings at The Rock fine examples of performance art? Thrilling?
@ The Rite of Spring provoked riots in Paris in 1913. In America, it gets
nothing more than a lusty ovation. Where were those Parisian hooligans
raised?... http://www.harvard-magazine.com/jf00/firstnights.ssi
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# "Flatulent Irish cows are anything but great gas" - "The extent of flatu-
lence among Irish cows, not to mention their belching, will soon force
farmers to change the way they do business, it has been predicted. This
factor is a major contributor to Ireland's growing greenhouse gas emis-
sions problem" http://ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2000/0301/hom33.htm
# "Clean Air Trust Names 'Republicans for Clean Air' Villain of the Month" -
ewwww. http://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/Current_Releases/0303-113.html
# "World obese catch up with starving" - "For the first time in history, the
world's total of overweight people equals the total of those who are under-
fed. Up to 1.2bn people eat more than they need, and as many go hungry each
day," http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_663000/663994.stm
: Is your flatulence seriously affecting the global climate? Are such gas
emissions inevitable, given a) increased meat-animal raising, b) increased
human vegetarianism, c) mutant intestinal flora implanted in humans by ETs?
@ MISTAKEN IDENTITY THEORY - Why Scientists Always Pick the Wrong Man. "Who
is buried in Grant's tomb?" That was the bonus question Groucho Marx used
to put to unfortunate contestants on his 1950s quiz show, You Bet Your
Life. It sounds like a giveaway, but beware: Questions of this form can
be treacherous. Consider: Who discovered Bayes's theorem? Who discovered
Giffen's paradox? Who discovered the Pythagorean theorem? Who discovered
America? If your answers were, respectively, Bayes, Giffen, Pythagoras,
and Amerigo Vespucci, then no box of Snickers for you. Of course, you're
better off without the candy: http://www.linguafranca.com/0003/hypo.html
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# Hubble Takes a Close-up View of a Reflection Nebula in Orion:
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pr/2000/10/index.html
# A Monster in the Middle. The Chandra X-ray Observatory may have spied
a supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy:
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast29feb_1m.htm
@ Chandra Official Home Page [NASA]: http://chandra.nasa.gov/
@ Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center: http://chandra.harvard.edu/
@ Hubble News: http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pr.html
@ The European Southern Observatory <http://www.eso.org/> operates various
<www.eso.org/outreach/info-events/ut1fl/astroimages.html> Very Large Tele-
scopes to produce images rivalling those of <http://www.stsci.edu/> HST.
Look at the dust-lane detail in this shot of the Sombrero Galaxy to see
<www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2000/phot-07a-00-normal.jpg> what I
mean. Then scope out http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Science/
: Do our alien masters encourage us to explore the universe with telescopes?
Do they subtly discourage us from other modes of exploration? How would you
like to explore the universe? What help do you need? How much funding? When?
@ Windows to the Universe: http://www.windows.umich.edu/
Planets http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html
@ Astronet: http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlkop/astroeng.html
@ Astrobiology Web: http://www.reston.com/astro/
@ The Mars Academy: http://www.marsacademy.com/
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