The site I mentioned before, which is no longer around. Can't even remember the 
name of the place to pass out.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:          online? Where???

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From: Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
Bits were edited and changed for America, but it ran basically the same. And 
I'd forgotten about Knox and his lads myself until I watched it online.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Was "The Bolar Wars" also the dubbed, Americanized 
version?
Speaking of Strablazers cool stuff, how could i forget Seargeant Knox (?) and 
the Space Marines?! 

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From: Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
It was. I caught it on one of those "everything TV/Anime/etc is here" sites 
last year, the entire run in one day. Really made me long for the DVD set, for 
ownership purposes.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, no Starsha with the Cosmo DNA to fix the planet, 
eh? Bummer! Well, at least that means no Gamelons out there to harry us either: 
although, now I think of it, Cheney does have a slight bluish tinge to his skin!

Great reference to "Starblazers", one of my *favorite* cartoon series of all 
times. I honestly don't think a month goes by where I don't find myself humming 
the (Americanized) theme song to either the Iscandar or Comet Empire 
storylines. Still remember the power of the Wave Motion Engine/Gun, the Reflex 
Cannon, the only-the-Japanese-could-pull-this-off idea of refitting an old 
seagoing battleship as a starship.Loved that series, it's on my list of things 
to buy.

Did you ever see the uncut, original Japanese version, which is different in 
many ways? How about the third story arc, "The Bolar Wars"? Was that any good?

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From: Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
To that, I can only say this.

Who among them knows the Mind of Deity?

I've looked a all of the arguments, on all sides, and I've come to one 
conclusion. Mother Earth is dying, and there aren't any Iskandarians with a 
magic device to heal her. It's up to us, and Mister Bush's people need to get 
out of the way, because they're unwilling to help fix things.

Tracey de Morsella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 

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Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 5:36 PM
To: NothingButA Man
Cc: Tracey de Morsella; Afrikan Mind; Albert Fields; bettillee; Bree;
Cinque; Cleo Wadley; duvalny; Euless Girl; fisren; Fred Williams; Kai
Pettaway; Kalpubinc; Keith Johnson; Kimberly Luft; Lawrence Ross; Lord
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Theopolis Smith
Subject: 'Fewer hurricanes' as world warms

BBC NEWS
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'Fewer hurricanes' as world warms 

By Mark Kinver 
Science and nature reporter, BBC News 

Hurricanes and tropical storms will become less frequent by the end of the
century as a result of climate change, US researchers have suggested. 

But the scientists added their data also showed that there would be a
"modest increase" in the intensity of these extreme weather events. 

The findings are at odds with some other studies, which forecast a greater
number of hurricanes in a warmer world. 

The researchers' results appear in the journal Nature Geoscience. 

The team from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (Noaa)
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) said its findings did not
support the notion that human-induced climate change was causing an increase
in the number of hurricanes and tropical storms. 

"There have been some studies published that have suggested that this is the
case, but this modelling study does not support that idea," observed lead
author Tom Knutson. 

"Rather, we actually simulate a reduction in hurricane frequency in the
Atlantic." 

Eye of the storm 

Although the study projected that there would be fewer extreme weather
events in the future, Dr Knutson said that these storms were likely to be
more powerful. 

"The model is simulating increased intensity of the hurricanes that do
occur, and also increased rainfall rates. 

"This is something that has been seen in previous studies, and the IPCC use
this [scenario] as a likely projection for future climate warming. 

"These changes in intensity are still fairly modest in size." 

A previous study by Noaa scientists showed a 4% increase in storm intensity
for every 1C (1.8F) increase in sea surface temperature. Yet, he explained,
this study suggested only a 1-2% increase. 

A sea surface temperature (SST) above 26.5C (79.7F) is one of the key
factors in the formation and feeding of a hurricane. 

Over recent decades, the surfaces of most tropical oceans have warmed by up
to 0.5C (0.9F), which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
believes has been caused by an increase in greenhouse gas concentrations in
the atmosphere. 

In November 2006, the global community of tropical cyclone researchers
gathered at a workshop organised by the World Meteorological Organization to
consider the impact of human activity on the frequency and intensity of
cyclones. 

In a concluding statement, the researchers said that although there was
evidence both for and against the existence of a detectable anthropogenic
signal in the tropical cyclone climate record, no firm conclusion could be
made. 

One reason for the uncertainty is the changes in observation methods used to
record Atlantic hurricanes - a record that dates back to 1850. 

>From 1944, air reconnaissance flights were used to monitor tropical storms
and hurricanes. This development allowed researchers to monitor a much
greater area and not rely on ships' logs and storms reaching land. 

And from the late 1960s, satellite technology has been used to monitor and
track hurricanes. 

Therefore, a reliable record of past hurricane activity only stretches back
about 35 years. 

Natural variations that affect SSTs - such as El Nino and La Nina episodes
and the Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation - add to the difficulty of
identifying the influence of human-induced climate change on the frequency
and intensity of hurricanes. 

Model mechanics 

Dr Knutson's colleague and co-author, Isaac Held, said the team's model used
a different approach to previous efforts, which gave them a high degree of
confidence in their results. 

"Most of the literature to date on hurricanes and climate change has used
statistical techniques," he said. 

"You've had time series of hurricane activity and time series of sea surface
temperatures, and people correlate them." 

Because there was a high degree of confidence that the sea surface
temperature trend was going to continue to rise, Dr Held explained, people
had "tried to conclude that hurricane activity will increase rather
dramatically in the future". 

"We tried to simulate the fundamental fluid dynamics and thermodynamics that
control hurricane genesis in the Atlantic in a numerical model to a very
high resolution." 

He added that the team ran data from the past 25 years through the model,
and it returned results closely correlated to what actually occurred. 

"It is interesting and important to understand why it is that this model is
capable of simulating an increase in hurricane activity that we have seen in
recent decades, yet it predicts a decrease in the future. 

"This implies that we cannot simply extrapolate the past 25 years into the
future." 

Dr Knutson said that he did not expect the study's findings to end the
scientific debate surrounding the impact of human-induced climate change on
tropical storms. 

"We do not regard this study as the last word on this topic," he told
reporters. 

"The main point that we want to emphasise is that there is no evidence in
this study that we are seeing large greenhouse-gas-driven increases in
Atlantic hurricane or tropical storm frequencies." 

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/sci/tech/7404846.stm

Published: 2008/05/18 20:52:13 GMT

C BBC MMVIII

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