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Fact Finder of who?
(10/9/00 4:10:24 pm)
| updated signs of THE end
The Boston Globe reported: “The history books will never record it, but life in outer space was discovered about 12 years ago by a Russian cosmonaut as he was gazing out a window of the space station Mir. Squinting to set his sights on the passing Earth below, this space explorer instead focused on a thick living mat that had made its way up the window's hard quartz surface, nearly obliterating any view. A microbiologist, Natalia Novikova, eventually identified the growth as an aggressive space fungus. And since then, she's had her hands full examining the various forms of fungi found growing aboard the ship. The aging Mir, it turns out, is nearly overrun with the stuff. Visitors have found numerous fungal patches with hues between green and black, feeding behind control panels, slowly digesting the ship's air conditioner, communications unit, and myriad other surfaces. Pull out an insulation panel on Mir, and you'll probably find fungus. And in the heavy radiation of space, Novikova and others said, these fungi could mutate into more virulent forms, possibly harming future space travelers, or even be carried back to Earth to wreak havoc as they join the many earthbound varieties that relentlessly attack metal, plastic and glass surfaces...”
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(10/9/00 4:12:07 pm)
| updated signs of THE end
The BBC reported: “Brothels become legal in The Netherlands on Sunday in a controversial effort to control the world of prostitution.
Brothels, although officially banned, have been allowed to operate under lax conditions. Now they will be made legal and treated the same way as any other business, with stricter controls and tougher penalties for abuses such as involuntary and under-age prostitution.
An estimated 30,000 people work as prostitutes in The Netherlands. Just Wiarda, of the Ministry of Justice, said: ‘The new law gives the government a possibility to get a hold on the sex industry and to combat the exploitation of prostitution by minors and adults who are forced to prostitute themselves and to reduce prostitution by illegal immigrants.’
But Andre Rouvoet, an opposition member of Parliament, said: ‘I think that's rather naive to think that you can ban crime by legalizing it.’...”
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ready writer
Fact Finder of who?
(10/9/00 4:14:32 pm)
| more signs of THE end
Associated Press reported: “The hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica has stretched over a populated city for the first time, after ballooning to a new record size, New Zealand scientists said Thursday.
Previously, the hole had only opened over Antarctica and the surrounding ocean. Citing data from the U.S. space agency NASA, atmospheric research scientist Stephen Wood said the hole covered 11.4 million square miles -- an area more than three times the size of the United States.
For two days, Sept. 9-10, the hole extended over the southern Chile city of Punta Arenas, exposing residents to very high levels of ultra violet radiation. Too much UV radiation can cause skin cancer and destroy tiny plants at the beginning of the food chain.
Wood is a researcher with New Zealand's respected National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research.
Dr. Dean Peterson, science strategy manager of the Antarctica New Zealand research group, said Wood's findings showed for the first time a city being exposed by the ozone hole. ‘The longer it gets, the greater the chances of populated areas being hit by low ozone levels,'' said Peterson, who was not involved in the study...”
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(10/9/00 4:15:40 pm)
| more signs of THE end
USA Today reported: “France's National Assembly voted Thursday to allow public school nurses to distribute a morning-after contraception pill in junior and senior high schools.
The Socialist-government backed proposal still requires a second reading in the Senate before going into effect.
Thursday's vote passed by a large majority. In France, the morning-after pill is available in pharmacies without a doctor's prescription for $8...”
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(10/9/00 4:17:41 pm)
| more signs of THE end
The New Scientist reported: " The probability that dangerous Earth-devouring particles will be born at a new particle accelerator in the US may be tiny, but scientists have played down the devastating potential costs in their risk assessments, a physicist now says.
Adrian Kent of Cambridge University accepts that the chances of catastrophe are minuscule. But he claims physicists are not accounting for the scale of the potential devastation--the destruction of the entire planet--in their risk analysis.
'Small catastrophe risks are more costly than we've generally considered,' says Kent.
Last year, sensational newspaper reports suggested that a new particle accelerator, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, could put the Earth in peril.
The accelerator might create blobs of matter called strangelets containing 'trange' quarks, as well as the usual 'up' and 'down' types in ordinary matter.
If a strangelet were stable and negatively charged, it might begin eating the nuclei of ordinary matter, converting them into strange matter. Eventually this could consume the entire Earth.
Physicists reassured the public by pointing out that such a chain of events is nigh-on impossible (New Scientist, 28 August 1999, p 24).
The main reason for their confidence is that it's very unlikely that strangelets would be stable or negatively charged..."
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(10/9/00 4:22:32 pm)
| THE end or not THE end?
This is THE most recent posting (besides the Arafat-Barak thing) on the signs-of-the-end website:
The BBC reported: "Reports from the United States say scientists have, for the first time, cloned an endangered species by using the eggs and the womb of another animal - a cow. According to the Washington Post newspaper, an Asian gaur - a humpbacked, ox-like animal native to India and Burma - was cloned from a single skin cell taken from a dead gaur. Scientists fused the cell to a cows' egg, whose own genes had been removed, then transferred it to the womb of another cow. The baby gaur, already named Noah, is due to be born next month..."
Maybe THE could clone himself?
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SierraSam
WayDale Citizen
(10/9/00 4:46:46 pm)
| Re: THE Two
This seems like a good place to put my very first posting.
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Lifted Up
Mighty for ?
(10/9/00 5:24:42 pm)
| THE Two
YES!!!!! A very good place! THE spirit of THE is THE spirit of waydale!!!
At least until November anyway.
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Lifted Up
Mighty for ?
(10/9/00 5:25:33 pm)
| THE Two
Tonight I will get someone else to contribute here!!!
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Lifted Up
Mighty for ?
(10/9/00 5:26:10 pm)
| THE Two
If nobody else comes in...
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Lifted Up
Mighty for ?
(10/9/00 5:27:19 pm)
| THE Two
I will leave the last post before the milestone...
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Lifted Up
Mighty for ?
(10/9/00 5:28:51 pm)
| THE Two
which will be 6399...or 2399 as seen on forums...
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Lifted Up
Mighty for ?
(10/9/00 5:30:07 pm)
| THE Two
sticking out like a sore thumb!!!!!
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Lifted Up
Mighty for ?
(10/9/00 5:30:57 pm)
| THE Two
THAT will bring a little life to this place!!!
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Lifted Up
Mighty for ?
(10/9/00 5:31:54 pm)
| THE Two
I WILL NOT GIVE UP.......
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Lifted Up
Mighty for ?
(10/9/00 5:32:31 pm)
| THE Two
on THE revival!!!!!
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Lifted Up
Mighty for ?
(10/9/00 5:33:35 pm)
| THE Two
NO WAY will I take this one myself...it would kill the whole purpose...
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Lifted Up
Mighty for ?
(10/9/00 5:37:59 pm)
| THE Two
Unless of course it goes all the way till midnight with no one coming in...IMPOSSIBLE!!!!!!!
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Lifted Up
Mighty for ?
(10/9/00 5:41:05 pm)
| Milestone Up for Grabs!!!
OK WHO WANTS IT???????
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THE
Defrocked Deity
(10/9/00 5:59:49 pm)
 | Can I have a milestone?
pleeeeeze?
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