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@ Twirling Hippy: http://sugarmegs.org/twirler.gif
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# Scope maps 100,000 galaxies. (AP) - Astronomers using a robotic telescope
in Australia have mapped 100,000 galaxies in the region of the universe
surrounding the Milky Way, quadrupling the number of galaxies plotted.
Scientists said the map - the most detailed 3D picture of the cosmos yet -
demonstrates that galaxies can cluster like continents measuring millions
of light-years across. But the map also appears to show that the growth of
these "super clusters" as limited, which astronomers describe as "the end
of greatness." www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567168608-274
# A meteorite worth its salt. (BBC) Water-bearing salt crystals from dawn
of the solar system have been found in a meteorite. I'm just wet with
envy: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_783000/783048.stm
# MORE: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_431000/431496.stm
: Have you found/hidden any water/meteors/planets/galaxies/universes lately?
Does the universe grow/evolve/decay faster than you can keep track of? Have
organisms/galaxies/universes seen their best days? Is greatness obsolete??
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# Fossils Boost Life Origins Theory (AP) Researchers have found what they
believe are fossils 3.2 billion years old, suggesting that life on Earth
originated in volcano-heated ocean depths where sunlight never entered.
Wet, warm, wild: http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000608/01/early-life
@ MORE: We've all heard of the age-old dispute of Evolution vs. Creationism
<http://www.phy.syr.edu/courses/modules/ORIGINS/origins.html> and most of
us remember the Creationists' recent forays into the US education system,
but let's not forget that the theory of evolution is not undisputed in the
science community <http://www.ridgenet.net/~do_while/sage/> either. Do
check out this <http://www.ridgenet.net/~do_while/sage/topics.htm> topical
index on the matter. Evolve from http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Science/
: Are you highly evolved? Will you be devoured by entities that continue to
evolve after you've stopped? Do your thoughts/arguments/beliefs/biota/psyche
evolve faster/slower/tangential to you? What's your favorite creation model?
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# Crispy critters make for tasty treats. (U-Wire) Edible insects -- some may
feel those two words don't even belong in the same sentence. However, the
Edible Insects Web site, http://www.eatbug.com, said most people have
probably inadvertently consumed over a pound of insects in a lifetime.
And some just crave chitin: http://news.excite.com/news/uw/000606/odd-44
# Pesticides residues too high in children's food - apples/grapes sickening:
http://reutershealth.com/archive/2000/06/07/eline/links/20000607elin025.html
# You can eat it, drink it, snuff out a blaze with it or dance in it --
perhaps even build a spacecraft with it. Interesting stuff, this foam.
Manna from...? http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opinion_224120.html
: Would you rather eat bugs, pesticides, plastic, aliens, robots, me? Do y'r
fellow-plotters eat well? Do you? Do the Reptilioids? Have you eaten (m)any
bugs lately? Is that only fair, since bugs eat people? Are foam bugs better?
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@ Libertarians? Nothing more than conservatives without morals. Maybe that's
a problem, and maybe not, eh? http://www.spintechmag.com/0005/jl0500a.htm
@ Socialism: French rationalism and German sentimentality. Multiculturalism?
well... http://www.hudson.org/American_Outlook/articles_sp00/vazsonyi2.htm
@ SPIN! On becoming right-wing scum: one day you begin to think affirmative
action isn't fair, and before you know it you've joined the NRA. Bother...
http://weeklystandard.com/magazine/mag_5_36_00/ferguson_bkart_5_36_00.html
@ Of course it's racist to think that a single intellectual could tell The
Truth About Blacks. It'd take at least, say, two or three. Conveniently,
they're all at Harvard: http://chronicle.com/free/v46/i37/37a01801.htm
: What's your favorite political/economic/social ploy? Does your conspiracy
feed political programming into the minds of the populace?Are all successful
politicos Illuminati/Reptilioid/Bilderberger tools/spawn/dupes? Are you? Eh?
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# BONDED. 38 years after his birth in the murky waters of Dr. No, the cell-
uloid James Bond has become the ageless hero of modern global culture. A
tool of the IMF/WTO/WB/CIA? http://www.civmag.com/articles/C0006B01.html
# Complicity in War Crimes: http://truthinmedia.org/Activism/wsj6-7-2K.html
# NSA Farms Out InfoTech. FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) - The super-secret National
Security Agency plans to turn management of most of its nonclassified
information technology over to a private contractor. NSA officials said
the move could save the govt $1 billion over 10 years, while allowing for
faster modernization of the agency's computers and telecommunication
systems. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567166832-953
: D'ya think you really know anything about intelligence/military/corporate
agencies/agents/actions? If their conspiracies are sufficiently competent/
omnipotent/omniscient, don't they control everything you think you know? Eh?
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# Biotech holds worldwide promises, but hindered by concerns in UK. Based on
history, one could have legitimately predicted that Britain would be among
the world's leaders in developing biotechnology today. Instead,the U.K. is
known worldwide as the nation most responsible for impeding introduction
of this technology. http://agweb.com/news/news.cfm?id=6726&breakingnews=1
# Seed firm claims Whitehall said 'not to worry' over GM scare. Senior UK
civil servants from two Whitehall ministries told the company that faces
huge compensation payments to farmers for destroying crops contaminated
with genetically modified seeds that the initial scare was 'not serious'
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,329547,00.html
# GM firm sues Canuck farmer. US biotech giant Monsanto has taken a Canadian
farmer to court, saying he illegally grew its genetically-modified crop.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_779000/779265.stm
: Have you genetically modified any crops/animals/aliens/lawyers lately? Is
a GM world a better world? Should/can/will the whole universe be genetically
engineered? Can all entities be improved? <via http://www.junkscience.com/>
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"Ugh!" said Dir, an average Australopithecus robustus, as the saber-
toothed tiger raked Dir's stomach with a massive paw only an instant
before instantly dying as Dir's club smashed the big beast's skull
into something resembling scrambled egg, colored red. --David Meltzer
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