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@ Flash: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_533000/533416.stm
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# Life on Jupiter's Moon Io? Forget for the moment about the evidence for
life on Mars or Europa. Now we have evidence that life could be thriving
within the sulphur spewing volcanos of Io, one of the moons of Jupiter.
Hi, guys: http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m10-004.shtml
# Titan: Moon of Mystery. SATURN's cloud-shrouded moon Titan is struggling
to keep its secrets. French astronomers who have peered through the mist
using ground telescopes say they have spotted polar caps & lofty mountains
covered with methane ice. But a US researcher says that images from the
Hubble telescope paint a different picture. http://caus.org/pn061200.htm
: Have you looked for life lately? Did you find any? Where? How? Why? When?
Do y'r planets/satellites/stars struggle to keep their secrets? Need they be
'persuaded' to confess? Have you tried mindcontrol on cosmic bodies? Where??
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# Russia's Surprise Publication Of Revealing Nuclear Weapons Book - every-
thing you wanted to know: http://www.sightings.com/general2/rsss.htm
# Time Polarization - Significance & Weaponization. Full strategic strikes
against the West scheduled: http://cseti.org/position/addition/time.htm
# Rival Russian Jewish groups trade barbs. MOSCOW (AP) - An angry dispute
has broken out between two rival Jewish groups, with one alleging that
the Kremlin is meddling in the community's politics - a rollback to the
Soviet era, when the Communist leadership kept religious groups on a short
leash. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567273789-56f
: What's your favorite Russian conspiracy? Does y'r conspiracy seek/maintain
control with military/religious/commercial/alien assistance? Is control elu-
sive? Are strategic strikes necessary? Will you nuke anyone soon? Who? When?
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# Aussie Attraction Spaces Out. Russia's version of space shuttle, which
never actually flew in space, is being turned into a tourist attraction.
Will visitors flock to check out its cramped cockpit and learn more about
space exploration? http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,36870,00.html
# SPACEVIEWS 2000.24 - Proton Passes Key Test with CommSat Launch - Pegasus
Launches USAF Sat - NEAR Instrument Shut Down - Compton Reentry Linked to
Mir - Hale-Bopp Observations Give Clues to Its Origin - U.S. Removes
Quotas on Ukrainian Launches - Supermassive Black Holes Tied to Galaxy
Formation - House Committee Approves NASA Budget - Company to Fly First
Web Server in Space - The Challenges of Hubble's Successor - Astronomers
Weigh Universe with Galactic Map: http://www.spaceviews.com/2000/0612/
: What's your favorite spacey attraction? Should all failed/unused/surplus
space equipment be recycled for entertainment/education/propaganda? Have you
recycled/refurbished any obsolete spacecraft lately? Do they fly well?Where?
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# Pain relief substitute for morphine. (BBC) Scientists have developed a way
to relieve pain that could provide a long-sought after alternative to mor-
phine. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_783000/783921.stm
# Also - Scientists boost power of morphine - gimmee another superfix:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_576000/576089.stm
# Pain is in the genes, says study - we're wired to suffer. Bother.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_398000/398542.stm
@ Links - Opioids: http://hivpositive.com/f-PainHIV/Pain/PainMenu3a.html
@ Online pain journals: http://www.pain.com/onlinepainjournal/
# Cannabis Royale. LONDON (Reuters) A plant thought to be pot was found in a
police raid on staff quarters at Buckingham Palace,home of Britain's Queen
Elizabeth. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000612/10/odd-royals-pot-dc
: What's your fave pain relief procedure? Is pain best controlled by drugs,
surgery, mindcontrol rays, genetic reengineering, hypnosis, prayer, chance?
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# Hackers invade Malaysia Web sites. KUALA LUMPUR (AP) - Hackers have broken
into dozens of Malaysian political Websites, leaving govt officials and
opposition leaders fuming Sunday over images of rotting skulls and obscene
messages. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567257754-636
# Taiwan: Silicon Island? www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,36920,00.html
# Cyber-pirates loot Asia's Web boom - easier than skyjacking, bank robbery,
forgery: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567277361-762
# Chinese Hooked on Coffee Website. (Reuters) Chinese consumers have rushed
to click on the International Coffee Organization's Chinese-language Web
site (www.coffeelife.net.cn) to learn about Western coffee culture. There
goes China: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000612/10/odd-coffee-china-dc
: Can Oriental/Occidental/Extraterrestrial cultures handle technology surges
better? Have you exploited any radical new technologies lately? D'ya use'em
for political/economic/military/religious/random advantage? Have you failed?
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# VBS_TIMOFONICA - a new Visual Basic Script worm was recently reported to
us.Once an infected file is opened, VBS_TIMOFONICA mails an infected email
attachment (Filename: TIMOFONICA.TXT.VBS) to all users in the Microsoft
Outlook address book. The subject of the message is: "TIMOFONICA" and the
message body is a long text in Spanish. For every recipient in the address
book, VBS_TIMOFONICA also creates another message with a random numeric
recipient at the "correo.moviestar.net" host, which is a SMS gateway that
forwards email messages to pagers and mobile phones. More information:
http://antivirus.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=VBS_TIMOFONICA
: Have you infected any systems lately? Have any systems infected you? When?
Are y'r cognitive systems most easily infected in any specific language? Eh?
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SkeptiBriefs:
# Sounds of silence echo around globe - Linguists predict half of 6,000
world languages will soon die. In an unprecedented wave of destruction,
half of the world's languages will likely die off. Should we care?
http://newsweek.com/nw-srv/printed/int/socu/a20953-2000jun11.htm
# 'History' Should Be History. LONDON (Reuters) The word "history" should be
consigned to the past, according to managers at a British college who deem
it sexist. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000612/10/odd-britain-words-dc
# Giant crystal cave discovered. (BBC) A huge cave containing transparent
gypsum crystals has been discovered in an old silver mine in Almeria,
Spain. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_787000/787776.stm
# Also - Lab grows monster crystal - threatens to devour entire planet:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_643000/643923.stm
# Bacteria with a silver lining - govt seeks taxation potential:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_533000/533416.stm
# Pufferfish: Sushi or Science? Berkeley scientist sez deciphering the genes
of the Japanese pufferfish is the fastest way to help researchers locate
human genes. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,36911,00.html
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