-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991209a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE THE ENTIRE BULLETIN WHEN YOU REPLY; CUT/PASTE, EH? * Nobody was teleported into a supernova to produce this bulletin. Whew. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Don't Mess With... THE KING: http://www.jesuspresley.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Looking For Life 'Out There' Draws on Inner Need to Explore. MOFFETT FIELD CALIF. With humanity now on the verge of being capable to leave its home world, Earth, scientists are wrestling with the consequences of this next great journey; of the social impact humanity will have upon discovering life elsewhere, be it fossil, bacterial, or an intelligent civilization. The scene is NASA's Ames Research Center and a two-day workshop on the societal implications of astrobiology: http://www.caus.org/pn120999.htm : What would you do with life elsewhere? What would it do with you? Who will devour/enslave/exploit/parasitize whom? Is death a stage of life? Is life a stage of death? Do you prefer to deal with the unborn or the undead? Where? # Flying Triangles: Occupants; Cops & TV Towers http://caus.org/ft120899.htm # UFO Crash Threatens Oz Water Supply: http://sightings.com/ufo5/ozcrash.htm @ Old Oz UFO Sightings And Encounters: http://sightings.com/ufo5/histoz.htm # Spheres & Cylinders with Beams of Light - OHIO SPHERE SHAPED CRAFT - NEW JERSEY: TWO CYLINDERS & DISC VIDEOTAPED http://www.caus.org/mu120999.htm # Comet Hale-Bopp May Have a Satellite: http://www.caus.org/pn120899.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # SHUTTLE LAUNCH ON INDEFINITE HOLD; Y2K DEADLINE LOOMS. With the discovery of a crushed hydrogen cooling line, space shuttle mission managers have put the launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery on "indefinite hold." Five days for repair: http://cnn.com/1999/TECH/space/12/08/shuttle.delay/ # Japan cancels key rocket program. TOKYO (AP) Japan announced that it will halt development of the troubled H-2 rocket, considered the key to Japan's space program, after two failed launches this year. Try for better rockets instead: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562505263-b98 # Setback: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562516123-ee5 : Are the aliens who want to keep us out of space smarter, tougher, luckier than the aliens helping us get into space? Which aliens are which? Whose?? @ Teletransportation - Beam Me Up: http://www.caus.org/pc120899.htm @ See: http://www.latimes.com/news/comment/ramirez/ramirez_1208.htm # Mars lander topped bad year for NASA - Hubble mission worrisome too: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562498569-145 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ So long held captive by its binding, the book is about to be set free. Its salvation is the Internet. But for how long? Will writing survive cybertelepathy? http://wired.lycos.com/news/print/0,1294,32733,00.html # TAKING IT TO THE STREETS: Just who are these people who sit at card tables on the streets of Manhattan trying to sell books to passersby? And what does this micro-industry say about the reshaping of the city? How will it further morph? http://villagevoice.com/vls/165/sante.shtml : When will streets be overrun by vendors of chips, DNA samples, implants, thought patterns, other communications artifacts & storage media? When will the streets disappear? When will writing/books/media disappear? Soon enough? @ Over the centuries editors have had to invent & reinvent Sappho. But just who did they imagine her to be? http://www.lrb.co.uk/v21/n19/cast2119.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # KISS ME ONCE - AND HAVE MY GERMS FOR A LONG, LONG TIME. We've always known that the human mouth holds about 500 different microbes. Now thanks to DNA testing technology we know there are more, including 37 previously unknown to science. And we probably share all of them when we kiss. We ARE our bugs: http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=23311 : Would you rather kiss humans, aliens, robots, me? Are aliens safer for sex etc than humans? Are you enveloped with alien biota? Are you immune? Why?? # Student Sperm Drive Upsets U. SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A Chinese university has torn down advertisements put up by a fertility clinic seeking to buy student sperm. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991207/08/odd-sperm # Desperate Beatle fans offer sex in exchange for Paul McCartney concert tix: http://cnn.com/1999/WORLD/europe/12/09/bc.britain.mccartney.reut/ : Would you rather buy or trade for sperm, eggs, ova, sex? Would you rather buy/trade with humans, aliens, students, music promoters, robots, fans, me? # Surgeons Condemn Penis Enlargement Prize. SYDNEY (Reuters) - Oz doctors have condemned a golf tournament sponsor offering a penis enlargement for the longest drive. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991207/08/odd-surgery # Castration may help cancer patients - but will they want to live? Would you? http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562497784-ad9 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Y2K-A-Rama: # Y2K - 250,000 UK Homes Risk Festive Robbery. LONDON (Reuters) At least 250,000 British homes risk being burgled in the run-up to the Christmas and millennium holiday season, insurance company Direct Line warned: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991208/07/odd-millennium-crime # Y2K - Canada Ready To Invoke Updated War Measures Act: http://www.sightings.com/politics5/y2kwarms.htm # Y2K - Japan Will Mobilize 96,000 Soldiers To Deal With Trouble: http://www.sightings.com/politics5/y2kjp.htm # Y2K - US Ready to Sell Emergency Oil in Case of Y2K Woes: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19991209/tc/energy_yk_1.html # France plans 60,000-strong police force on New Year's Eve: http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap19991206_643.html # Y2K - HALF A MILLION PEOPLE IN TIMES SQUARE AND THE THEATERS ARE: Closed. New Year's Eve is traditionally a swank theater evening on Broadway, but this year the theaters and their unions have decided to stay dark. 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