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Subgenius Digest Tue, 28 Jan 92 Volume 3 : Issue 23
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boredom != humor
Someone light a BIG match!
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Date: Mon, 27 Jan 92 18:33:54 EST
From: Michael Turyn <mturyn@psyche.mit.edu>
Message-Id: <9201272333.AA12340@psyche.mit.edu>
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject:
Does anyone out there have any information of SubGenius shorDurShortWave?
I just saw a reproduction of an acknowledgement from the `Voice of ``Bob'''
from 1989....
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Date: Mon, 27 Jan 92 18:44:19 EST
From: Michael Turyn <mturyn@psyche.mit.edu>
Message-Id: <9201272344.AA12449@psyche.mit.edu>
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject:
Well, one of the things ``Bob'' did sell to me is entirely relevant to the
Masons/Templars question AND to the Church:
``The probability of the human personality surviving the death of
the brain seems to be about that of a cricket team surviving
after the death of all its members and the complete loss to the human
race of all knowledge of the game of cricket.''
I think the word `human' is key here. J.R. ``Bob'' Dobbs can be your rule-book,
if you would but let him and pay him and you 're Yeti to begin with. Sure, you
might get resurrected in some uh altered form---they might do the Wave after f
any legs-before-wicket, and sell hot dogs to Pinks in your audience, but it
beats non-existence, or norm-existence....
---Egon Bathory-Eszid.
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Date: Mon, 27 Jan 92 09:04:40 -0500
From: Eric Haines <erich@eye.com>
Message-Id: <9201271404.AA22756@hemlock>
To: subgenius@media-lab.media.mit.edu
Subject: boredom != humor
>>But, but, _Foucault's Pendulum_ is so damned hard to wade through.
nICK lArgo replies:
>_the_Book_ is no cake....neither is the principia, illuminatus!, schrodinger's
>cat, along with any number of Quality and ESSENTIAL READING!
The last three amused me, the first just goes on and on about the origins of
various conspiracy theories and hermetic groups. People who had never heard
of, say, the Templars might be intrigued, but for anybody who's read anything
on the subject it gets old real quick. There were some interesting passages
in the book, but a few hundred pages could disappear and help improve the flow
of the story itself. Eco's an intelligent, well-educated writer, but he likes
to ramble on.
Eric
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From: Nathan Charles Crowell <bigal@wpi.wpi.edu>
Message-Id: <9201271509.AA00814@wpi.WPI.EDU>
Subject: Someone light a BIG match!
To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 92 10:09:07 EST
Here's an amusing article I have reprinted without permission
from _The Enterprise_, a local paper in the Brockton, MA area,
from October 23, 1991:
------------------------
(From the World/Nation section)
STUDY SUGGESTS DINOSAUR DUNG ENHANCED GLOBAL WARMING
(AP) Los Angeles - Dinosaur flatulence may have helped warm
Earth's prehistoric climate, say scientists who studied the
giant reptiles' fossilized dung.
The researchers detected chemical signs of bacteria
and algae in known and suspected dinosaur droppings.
That indicates plant-eating dinosaurs digested their
food by fermenting it, a process that gives of methane.
Methane is a "greenhouse gas," like the carbon dioxide
exhaled by all animals and emitted by smokestacks.
Such gases trap solar heat in the atmosphere, warming
the planet just as glass traps heat inside a greenhouse.
"Gas from dinosaurs includes methane that may have
been a minor contributor to global warming 75 million to 80 mil-
lion years ago," said Simon Brassell, a geochemist at Indiana
University in Bloomington.
Brassell said if scientists prove dinosaurs contributed
to a prehistoric greenhouse effect, it would support the theory
that modern global warming is aggravated by methane burped up
by cattle, sheep, and other livestock that ferment their food.
Brassell presented the findings in San Diego on Tuesday
during the Geological Society of America's annual meeting.
The study's other authors are geologist Karen Chin of
the University of California at Santa Barbara and Robert Harmon
of Montana's Museum of the Rockies.
Other scientists questioned the findings.
"I wonder whether or not there were enough dinosaurs to
make that substantial a contribution to atmospheric chemistry,"
said Eric J. Barron, a Pennsylvania State University climato-
logist.
Brassell said the study doesn't imply that gas from the
dinosaurs was the initial cause or the major contributor to glo-
bal warming during the Cretaceous period.
The Cretaceous period lasted from 144 million to 65 mil-
lion years ago.
Extensive volcanic eruptions, rising sea levels, and other
factors that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are be-
lieved to be major factors.
But the study suggests gas from dinosaurs helped maintain
or warm the existing tropical climate during the late Cretaceous,
when flowering plants and plant-eating dinosaurs proliferated,
Chin said.
Chin said scientists believe dinosaurs released methane
through their back ends [Why don't they just say farted? - N8]
rather than through belching because modern related species,
including emus and igaunas, ferment in their hind guts.
The fossils studied included some that were obvious,
sausage-shaped dinosaur droppings.
Others were blocky, amorphous fossils believed to be
dinosaur dung because they were found with bones of 30-foot-long
duckbill dinosaurs and other plant-eating dinosaurs, Brassell
said.
Both types of fossils contained stems, other plant fragments
and organic chemicals indicating bacteria and algae.
Such chemicals were especially abundant in the blocky
fossils, suggesting that those fossils were heavily fermented
dung from plant-eating dinosaurs, Brassell said.
-----------------------------
Can you imagine what a "Blue Flamer" group must have been like
with dinosaur farts?
N8
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* Nathan Crowell * e-mail: bigal@wpi.wpi.edu *
* Dept. of Mechanical Engineering/ *********************************
* ACRL * "Senator, you and I are part *
* Worcester Polytechnic Institute * of the same hypocrisy" *
* "Just off Houston & Elm - At the * -Michael Corleone *
* Grassy Knoll, you can't miss it!" * "It was a coup-d'etat."-J.G. *
**********************************************************************
"And the trees are all kept equal/By hatchet, axe, and saw..." - RUSH
______________________________________________________________________
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Date: Tue, 28 Jan 92 15:04:29 +0100
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Subgenius Digest Tue, 28 Jan 92 Volume 3 : Issue 23
Today's Topics:
(2 msgs)
boredom != humor
Someone light a BIG match!
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Date: Mon, 27 Jan 92 18:33:54 EST
From: Michael Turyn <mturyn@psyche.mit.edu>
Message-Id: <9201272333.AA12340@psyche.mit.edu>
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject:
Does anyone out there have any information of SubGenius shorDurShortWave?
I just saw a reproduction of an acknowledgement from the `Voice of ``Bob'''
from 1989....
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 92 18:44:19 EST
From: Michael Turyn <mturyn@psyche.mit.edu>
Message-Id: <9201272344.AA12449@psyche.mit.edu>
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject:
Well, one of the things ``Bob'' did sell to me is entirely relevant to the
Masons/Templars question AND to the Church:
``The probability of the human personality surviving the death of
the brain seems to be about that of a cricket team surviving
after the death of all its members and the complete loss to the human
race of all knowledge of the game of cricket.''
I think the word `human' is key here. J.R. ``Bob'' Dobbs can be your rule-book,
if you would but let him and pay him and you 're Yeti to begin with. Sure, you
might get resurrected in some uh altered form---they might do the Wave after f
any legs-before-wicket, and sell hot dogs to Pinks in your audience, but it
beats non-existence, or norm-existence....
---Egon Bathory-Eszid.
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 92 09:04:40 -0500
From: Eric Haines <erich@eye.com>
Message-Id: <9201271404.AA22756@hemlock>
To: subgenius@media-lab.media.mit.edu
Subject: boredom != humor
>>But, but, _Foucault's Pendulum_ is so damned hard to wade through.
nICK lArgo replies:
>_the_Book_ is no cake....neither is the principia, illuminatus!, schrodinger's
>cat, along with any number of Quality and ESSENTIAL READING!
The last three amused me, the first just goes on and on about the origins of
various conspiracy theories and hermetic groups. People who had never heard
of, say, the Templars might be intrigued, but for anybody who's read anything
on the subject it gets old real quick. There were some interesting passages
in the book, but a few hundred pages could disappear and help improve the flow
of the story itself. Eco's an intelligent, well-educated writer, but he likes
to ramble on.
Eric
------------------------------
From: Nathan Charles Crowell <bigal@wpi.wpi.edu>
Message-Id: <9201271509.AA00814@wpi.WPI.EDU>
Subject: Someone light a BIG match!
To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 92 10:09:07 EST
Here's an amusing article I have reprinted without permission
from _The Enterprise_, a local paper in the Brockton, MA area,
from October 23, 1991:
------------------------
(From the World/Nation section)
STUDY SUGGESTS DINOSAUR DUNG ENHANCED GLOBAL WARMING
(AP) Los Angeles - Dinosaur flatulence may have helped warm
Earth's prehistoric climate, say scientists who studied the
giant reptiles' fossilized dung.
The researchers detected chemical signs of bacteria
and algae in known and suspected dinosaur droppings.
That indicates plant-eating dinosaurs digested their
food by fermenting it, a process that gives of methane.
Methane is a "greenhouse gas," like the carbon dioxide
exhaled by all animals and emitted by smokestacks.
Such gases trap solar heat in the atmosphere, warming
the planet just as glass traps heat inside a greenhouse.
"Gas from dinosaurs includes methane that may have
been a minor contributor to global warming 75 million to 80 mil-
lion years ago," said Simon Brassell, a geochemist at Indiana
University in Bloomington.
Brassell said if scientists prove dinosaurs contributed
to a prehistoric greenhouse effect, it would support the theory
that modern global warming is aggravated by methane burped up
by cattle, sheep, and other livestock that ferment their food.
Brassell presented the findings in San Diego on Tuesday
during the Geological Society of America's annual meeting.
The study's other authors are geologist Karen Chin of
the University of California at Santa Barbara and Robert Harmon
of Montana's Museum of the Rockies.
Other scientists questioned the findings.
"I wonder whether or not there were enough dinosaurs to
make that substantial a contribution to atmospheric chemistry,"
said Eric J. Barron, a Pennsylvania State University climato-
logist.
Brassell said the study doesn't imply that gas from the
dinosaurs was the initial cause or the major contributor to glo-
bal warming during the Cretaceous period.
The Cretaceous period lasted from 144 million to 65 mil-
lion years ago.
Extensive volcanic eruptions, rising sea levels, and other
factors that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are be-
lieved to be major factors.
But the study suggests gas from dinosaurs helped maintain
or warm the existing tropical climate during the late Cretaceous,
when flowering plants and plant-eating dinosaurs proliferated,
Chin said.
Chin said scientists believe dinosaurs released methane
through their back ends [Why don't they just say farted? - N8]
rather than through belching because modern related species,
including emus and igaunas, ferment in their hind guts.
The fossils studied included some that were obvious,
sausage-shaped dinosaur droppings.
Others were blocky, amorphous fossils believed to be
dinosaur dung because they were found with bones of 30-foot-long
duckbill dinosaurs and other plant-eating dinosaurs, Brassell
said.
Both types of fossils contained stems, other plant fragments
and organic chemicals indicating bacteria and algae.
Such chemicals were especially abundant in the blocky
fossils, suggesting that those fossils were heavily fermented
dung from plant-eating dinosaurs, Brassell said.
-----------------------------
Can you imagine what a "Blue Flamer" group must have been like
with dinosaur farts?
N8
**********************************************************************
* Nathan Crowell * e-mail: bigal@wpi.wpi.edu *
* Dept. of Mechanical Engineering/ *********************************
* ACRL * "Senator, you and I are part *
* Worcester Polytechnic Institute * of the same hypocrisy" *
* "Just off Houston & Elm - At the * -Michael Corleone *
* Grassy Knoll, you can't miss it!" * "It was a coup-d'etat."-J.G. *
**********************************************************************
"And the trees are all kept equal/By hatchet, axe, and saw..." - RUSH
______________________________________________________________________
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