SkeptiNews 000627c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/26_06_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, praises, discoveries: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No missile critics were silenced during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ BorgLove: http://www.scifi.com/exposure/frameup/allisfull.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Inventor building rocket in back yard - Bend,Oregon, is next spaceport. Brian Walker, a toy inventor with no college degree and almost no flight experience, plans to blast himself into space next summer in a rocket he is building in his back yard. Walker, who looks more like a middle-aged TV junkie than an astronaut,is spending $250k to fulfill a lifelong ambition. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/news/local/html98/rock24m_20000624.html @ Brian Walker, AKA Rocket Guy, <http://rocketguy.com/> is using the money he has made inventing toys <http://www.rocketguy.com/toys.html> to fulfill his childhood dream <http://rocketguy.com/rocket/garden.html> of building a rocket and launchpad <http://www.rocketguy.com/rocket/garden2.html> in his backyard and launching himself <http://www.rocketguy.com/rocket.html> 30 miles into space. The launch is scheduled for April, 2001, but until then he has images <http://www.rocketguy.com/movies/anim.html> and a movie <http://rocketguy.com/movies/rocket.mpg> of a computer-simulated launch. You can do it too - blastoff to http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Science/ : Have you built any orbital rockets lately? Have you launched yourself? Did you survive/crash/orgasm/puke? Would you rather get to space by rocket/magic /balloons/antigravity/chariot? Are your neighbors glad to see you go? When?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Mission to Mars -- mankind is poised for its greatest adventure -- colonising red planet: http://www.alienzoo.com/news/a/200006260004.cfm # Mars water - illogical: http://www.alienzoo.com/news/a/200006260002.cfm # Ready for a dip on Mars? http://www.alienzoo.com/news/a/200006260003.cfm # Mars may hold twice as much water as previously thought - Ares Cup yacht races planned for year 2020 http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10027627 # Da Vinci's parachute flies. (BBC) A British man proves Leonardo Da Vinci right by testing his 500-year-old parachute design from two miles high. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_808000/808246.stm # Also - Renaissance machines are reborn - unions want retroactive pay: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_479000/479168.stm : Have you designed any Renaissance machines suitable for Mars? Are the best Martian machines hidden under the Pyramids; in Pentagon storerooms; at Area 51; underwater? Are the best machines Earthly, Martian, Solar, airbourne?? # Running on air. (SHNS) - Worldwide energy use is expected to double in the next 25 years. Can we help meet these needs with an energy source that's renewable, generates no pollution, has little environmental impact and is produced domestically? Yes: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10025701 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # FUTURE SPACE FLIGHT - FROM LASER LIGHT TO PLASMA POWER - get there first: www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/advanced_projects_000621.html # Delayed Russian ISS service module set for July launch. (DPA) Maybe it'll work and/or maybe not: http://www.alienzoo.com/news/a/200006260008.cfm # Chief designers to study readiness of Russian ISS module. (Itar-Tass News agency) -- Problematic? http://www.alienzoo.com/news/a/200006260007.cfm # Missile Defense Critic Says Pentagon Tried To Silence Him. Washington (AFP) - A university professor who revealed that test data show a crucial flaw in the proposed US national missile defense (NMD) system said Monday he was visited by Pentagon security agents in what appeared to be a clumsy attempt to silence him. Urg. http://www.spacedaily.com/news/bmdo-00zz.html # And - Send In The Submarines http://www.spacedaily.com/news/bmdo-00zx.html # Clinton To Decide By Fall: http://www.spacedaily.com/news/bmdo-00zy.html # Next Anti Missile Test: http://www.spacedaily.com/news/bmdo-00zw.html # More Reports at SpaceWar.com: http://www.spacewar.com/ : What's y'r favorite missile system? Have you ever met a missile system you didn't like? Have you criticized any missile systems lately? Have MiBs tried to silence you? Are you problematic? Are your missiles? D'ya work? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # THE UPS & DOWNS OF OZONE. (NASA) Scientists are watching carefully as the ozone layer, which protects animal & plant life from harmful solar ultra- violet radiation, begins an uncertain recovery. Ozone destroying chemicals in the atmosphere are declining, but the timing and nature of the expected recovery -- and even whether a recovery is occurring at all -- are contro- versial topics. http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast26jun_1m.htm $ INTRODUCING ELECTROSHIELD OF NORTH AMERICA. ESONA.com represents a growing network of professionals dedicated to introducing practical solutions to the world's #1 environmental health problem, EMF (electromagnetic field) pollution. Avoid writhing in mute nostril agony: http://www.esona.com/ # Anti-locust drive 'created havoc'. A chemical used in a Madagascar control programme killed other species. http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10024808 # Right whales face extinction. The Northern right whale could soon become extinct in the Atlantic. http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10024812 : Are you threatened by ozone/EMF/chemicals/harpoons? Do the voices in your head tell you to resist/surrender/meditate/sell? Are you gradually recover- ing? What's your favorite form of havoc? Have you wreaked havoc lately? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # SENSITIVITY & SPECIFICITY OF MINI-MENTAL STATE EXAM IN A SPANISH-SPEAKING POPULATION.This exam may have little diagnostic utility among participants with a low level of education. http://psychiatry.medscape.com/23572.rhtml # DECLINE IN COGNITIVE ABILITIES? Do declines in memory and other cognitive domains occur in elderly individuals at the threshold of becoming demented? Do you remember the question? http://psychiatry.medscape.com/23584.rhtml @ Oh god, the bugs! <http://insects.org/ced2/insects_psych.html> The bugs! <http://geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/9542/directory.html> They're crawling <http://www.skinparasites.com/> under my skin! The doctors say they can't see them, <http://169.237.210.130/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7443.html> but I KNOW THEY'RE THERE! Now get healthy at http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Health/ # Eating Less Seems To Fend Off Brain Diseases: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10026630 # Cocaine And Alcohol Together Gang Up On Brain: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10026631 : D'ya remember the last time you were devoured by bugs? Were you agitated? Were you tested? In what language? Had you consumed too much food/booze/coke before they devoured you? Did they eat your brain first? Did you notice? 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