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Mars Orbiter Confirms Evidence of Water 1 hour, 2 minutes ago Add Science - AP to My Yahoo! By MELISSA EDDY, Associated Press Writer DARMSTADT, Germany - Europe's Mars orbiter has found the most direct evidence yet of water in the form of ice on the Red Planet's surface, the European Space Agency said Friday. Reuters Photo Reuters Photo Slideshow: Mars Exploration Mars Orbiter Confirms Evidence of Water (AP Video) Related Links • Mars Express Sees its First Water (ESA) While scientists have long believed that the planet's polar caps contain frozen water, the findings were based on indirect methods such as analysis of temperature data or the detection of traces of hydrogen. European scientists said their discovery was based on analysis of vapors of water molecules detected by the infrared camera aboard the Mars Express spacecraft that is circling the Red Planet's south pole. "You look at the picture, look at the fingerprint and say this is water ice," said Allen Moorehouse, the project's manager of spacecraft operations. "This is the first time it's been detected on the ground. This is the first direct confirmation." If Mars once had surface water, it had the potential to support life — although Moorehouse cautioned that it was too early to draw conclusions. In 2001, NASA (news - web sites)'s Mars Odyssey spacecraft had determined that there is lots of ice mixed with the soil, as little as 18 inches from the surface. However, ESA's science director David Southwood said those previous conclusions were based on indirect measurements, such as the detection of traces of hydrogen, and that the European finding was more concrete. "Previous measurements have been indirect and this is the first time we have direct indications of molecules that are present in water," Southwood said. "Of course, finding anything that has to do with water on Mars is a sort of holy grail. This is certainly better than anything we've had so far." However, the director of NASA's Mars exploration program disputed the Europeans' claim that their discovery was new. "Our Odyssey spacecraft that has been orbiting Mars since 2001 did discover vast amounts of frozen water in the northern and southern latitudes. And we were surprised by the fact that there was so much, and so close to the surface," Orlando Figueroa, director of NASA's Mars exploration program, told CNN on Friday. "So it's not new news but we are happy to see that their satellite is also able to pick up where it exists," he said when asked about the Mars Express findings Phil Christensen, an Arizona State University professor involved in NASA's Mars projects, said the findings bolstered known data that pointed to the presence of frozen water on Mars. "That is a very nice confirmation of the other measurements that have been previously made," he told The Associated Press. European Space Agency officials said their discovery confirmed something that scientists long suspected. "It's been looked at for such a long time and it's been inferred there was water" at the south pole, said agency scientist Jean-Pierre Bibring. "This is the first time we can really see vapors of the molecules themselves," he said. The Europeans' announcement came as NASA tried fix a major communications problem with its Spirit rover, which landed on Mars on Jan. 3 and had sent back detailed photos of the surface. More than 40 years of Mars exploration have been searching for evidence of whether the planet ever had liquid water. Mars Odyssey, as well as another U.S. spacecraft, Mars Global Surveyor, have been circling the planet searching for indications of water. In October, a team of scientists reported Odyssey had detected on the surface of Mars copious amounts of a mineral that's easily weathered away in the presence of water. That suggested Mars has been a dry wasteland. Weeks later, a second team reported evidence to the contrary after Global Surveyor beamed back images that show features apparently created by the meandering flow of rivers. The European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter is part of Europe's first mission to Mars. Mars Express hit orbit on Dec. 25 and began transmitting its first data from the planet this month, starting with high-resolution pictures of the surface that captured in detail a huge Martian canyon. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...pe_mars_mission

Jethro Tull musician has sex swap op A former member of seventies band Jethro Tull has had a sex-change operation and become a woman called Dee. Once bearded keyboard player David Palmer now has long blonde hair and wears make-up and black leggings, reports the Evening Standard. She broke the news to flute playing frontman Ian Anderson by saying: "There's something I need to get off my increasingly ample chest." Anderson stood by his former bandmate, saying: "I found it difficult at first but I fully support his decision." Palmer, 66, a former soldier in the Royal Horse Guards and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, is set to embark on a solo career. She said: "I want to be judged on my musical ability alone, and nothing else." Her desire to change sex had been an "open secret" in the music business for many years, she said, but she did not go ahead with the operation until the death of wife Margaret nine years ago. Palmer lives in Hove, East Sussex, but is currently in the Spanish resort of Lanzarote, recording her first solo album before launching a British tour next month. She said: "I've felt like this since the age of three. It's not just wimps who want to do this. To be a girl, it goes a lot deeper than that. Yes, you are speaking to the person you thought I was - the keyboard player in Jethro Tull." Jethro Tull was formed in 1968 and had a string of hits including Living In The Past and Teacher. Palmer left the band in 1980. Story filed: 11:49 Friday 23rd January 2004 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_858591.html

Center top of page...It starts slow, since someone else is on stage first, but it is worth waiting 60 seconds to see him! http://www.kollaboration.org/

Someone would sure be lucky to get a response! Though to be fair to "Marie" feedback left just in the last month, was over 16,000!!!!! They must have a warehouse , a big one, with a fairly large staff......

Hey, I could be wrong, but Marie listed this Berigan set fairly poorly, and someone might get a good deal on it.... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...1&category=1056

I know what you mean! I wish there was a spot next to the Avatar where folks could post their old handle....I was Nunya of course!

Buy a halfway decent toupee????

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Nor did I know this!

Of course!!!!! I Eat Cannibals Total Coelo (chorus) I eat cannibal Feed on animal Your love is so edible to me I eat cannibals I eat cannibal It's incredible You bring out the animal in me I eat cannibals What can you do You're in a stew Hot pot cook it up I'm never gonna stop Fancy a bite My appetite Yum yum gee it's fun Banging on a different drum (chorus) I like a spice Tasty and nice Roastin, vitamin Forget the dietin' Mmm such a dish I can't resist Healthy recipe What you got is good for me All I wanna do Make a meal of you We are what we eat You're my kind of meat Got a hunger for your love (Hot pot cook it up, I'm never gonna stop) It's all I'm thinkin' of (Yum yum gee it's fun, I'm banging on a drum) Give the world a bone (Roastin vitamin, forget the dietin') I got steak at home (I eat cannibals) (chorus) Roastin', toastin', you're the one I'm boastin' Eat me, eat you, incredibly delicious too Gourmet, flambe, serve you up an entree Intake, home bake, you're the icing on the cake Eat me, eat you, incredibly delicious too Gourmet, flambe, serve you up an entree Intake, home bake, you're the icing on the cake Full up, can't stop, dicing on a chop chop Total Coelo - 1982

Brought this thread back up to really, really embarrass myself! Remember Toto Coelo????? Just got this cd from overstock.com for a buck...... I saw the video once or twice on T.V. in St. Louis, pre MTV(At least in my neck of the woods) they were dressed in what looked like dyed trash bags, I thought they looked pretty hot, and the song I Eat Cannibal got a fair bit of radio play for a few weeks at least.....Wonder if I can find those lyrics???

So, how many Bay City Rollers lps did you have anyway??????

Oh, it was on the moderate(defult) setting, so who knows what I have missed!

Man, I didn't even know there were settings like this! How much porn have I missed???

great idea, eh???? Block your ears to hear better on Japan's new bone phone Tokyo January 21, 2004 3 greased pigs, Britney Spears, and Howard Dean..... Japanese telecom carriers, pioneers of internet-capable and picture-snapping handsets, have now come up with the world's first mobile phone that enables users to listen to calls inside their heads - by conducting sound through bone. The TS41 handset, manufactured by electronics firm Sanyo, was put on sale by the Tu-Ka mobile phone group this month, drawing healthy demand from customers who want to hear calls better in busy streets and other noisy places. The new phone is equipped with a "Sonic Speaker" which transmits sounds through vibrations that move from the skull to the cochlea in the inner ear, instead of relying on the usual method of sound hitting the outer eardrum. With the new handset, the key to better hearing in a noisy situation is to plug your ears to prevent outside noise from drowning out bone-conducted sounds. If the user holds the handset to the top of the head, the back of the head, cheekbone or jaw and plugs his or her left ear, the call will be heard internally on the left side. It is the first time that the bone conduction has been used in mobile phones although the technology has been available for fixed-line phones in Japan, mostly for elderly people, for the past two years. The Tu-Ka group has launched a major advertising campaign for the new mobile phone, featuring a young woman and a X-ray image of her skull using the handset. A spokesman at Tu-Ka Cellular Tokyo said it was too early to declare the TS41 a success, but retail store clerks said they were seeing a healthy demand for it. "We have lots of inquires from young women thanks to the television commercial," said Tomoyuki Harasawa, a sales consultant at a Bic Camera consumer electronics store in Yurakucho, central Tokyo. "The actual buyers are mostly businessmen in their 30s and 40s," Harasawa said. "We sell four to five TS41s a day, a good figure for Tu-Ka, which lags far behind rival mobile operators" such as DoCoMo and Vodafone. The mobile phone is priced at ¥7800 ($A95) each at the discount store. "I don't know if this is going to be a big hit, but it will be possible for Tu-Ka to raise its market share since this high-profile handset has improved its brand recognition among consumers," Harasawa said. Tu-Ka firms belong to Japan's second-largest telecom carrier, KDDI group. But Tu-Ka subscribers account for only a small percentage of the market, far less than the roughly 20 per cent for the "au" brand in the same KDDI group and the more than 50 per cent for industry leader DoCoMo. Customers who examined the new phone on the Bic Camera sales floor had mixed reactions. Masaya Iwata, a 31-year-old accountant, said the product was interesting but he was not sure if he would buy it because he uses his mobile less and less for talking. "I use my mobile for picture-taking and emailing rather than having conversations," he said. Japan's top mobile phone carrier NTT DoCoMo launched "i-mode" phones in February 1999, offering internet surfing, emailing and video watching on mobile handsets. And J-Phone, now rebranded Vodafone to underline that it is controlled by the British-based telecoms giant, launched picture-taking handsets in November 2000. Nearly every new mobile handset in Japan now has a built-in digital camera enabling users to send images taken with their mobiles via email to other handsets or computers. Tomohiro Abukawa, a 34-year-old hair stylist, said he liked the bone-conducting phone, noting railway stations and streets were often too noisy to talk. "I may get this as it is also small," he said. But one woman in her 20s said she found the phone "scary". "Isn't this bad for your health?" she asked. Another woman, in her 30s, said she was interested in the mobile phone but was self-conscious. "What troubles me is that I may look weird if I'm talking with the phone pressed between my eyebrows," she said. AFP

F*** THE NAZIS, SAYS CHURCHILL'S PARROT Jan 19 2004 EXCLUSIVE By Bill Borrows SHE WAS at Winston Churchill's side during Britain's darkest hour. And now Charlie the parrot is 104 years old...and still cursing the Nazis. Her favourite sayings were "F*** Hitler" and "F*** the Nazis". And even today, 39 years after the great man's death, she can still be coaxed into repeating them with that unmistakable Churchillian inflection. Many an admiral or peer of the realm was shocked by the tirade from the bird's cage during crisis meetings with the PM. But it always brought a smile to the war leader's face. Churchill bought Charlie - giving him a boy's name despite the fact she was female - in 1937. She took pride of place in a bizarre menagerie of pets including lambs, pigs, cattle, swans and, at one point, a leopard. He immediately began to teach her to swear - particularly in company - and she is keeping up the tradition today. The blue and gold macaw is believed to be Britain's oldest bird. The title was previously thought to belong to 80-year-old Cokky the cockatoo. But it can be proved Charlie is at least 104 and was born in the 19th century. Peter Oram bought her for his pet shop after Churchill died in 1965. But he was forced to move her into his home after she kept swearing at children. For the last 12 years, she has lived at Mr Oram's garden centre in Reigate, Surrey. Centre worker Sylvia Martin said: "If truth be told, Charlie is looking a little scruffy but she is very popular with the public. We are all very attached to her." James Humes, an expert on the late PM, said: "Churchill may no longer be with us but that spirit and those words of defiance and resolve continue." Charlie's story is in this month's Jack Magazine, on sale Thursday http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page....ll&siteid=50143

Come on mac man, show us how superior your system is and make it a size one can read!

Well, as an African-American friend of mine is fond of saying: "You gotta be some kind of racist to not want another holiday with pay." JSngry, are this white folks relatives of Jesse Helms by any chance???

No joke! When someone turned left in front of my 1966 Dodge Monaco in 1999, (Not a good idea to total a car nut's car, but when I saw his airbag go off, I was more concerned that he might be hurt) The guy was driving around without valid insurance, thank God I had uninsured motorist's insurance. But then the bastards wanted to give me $1500 for a car I bought a year before for $3800! And I had put a grand into it as well. So, we had to dick around for a few months, driving a rental car, til we were able to get an Auto appraiser from our car club to at least convince them it was a 3000 dollar car. Of course, they considered it totaled, even though it could have been fixed, and wouldn't let me buy it back, it was sold at a dealers auction. For what they payed in rental fees, they could have resolved the issue for much less. Of course, I was still out the deductible, and the doctor exam fee(I think) I did have minor whiplash, and I was already off work for a ruptured disc in my back. People told me when State Farm started to push me around, that was when I should have said my neck was really starting to hurt me....It's a shame you are almost forced into lying to make a company do what's right... Alexander, glad you are ok! Your guardian angel must have been watching over you!

B, and the smaller people sit up closer, but they should still try to be at almost arms length at least from the wheel (Get some pedal extenders folks!) otherwise they can suffer serious injuries from the airbag deploying. They come out very fast in a severe accident, and Grandma sitting 5 inches away from the wheel could get killed! Tried to find out just how fast they inflate , but no luck....here is how they work though.... Airbags are known as Supplemental Restraint Systems (SRS) and are not a substitute for the use of seatbelts. For the particulars of your vehicle’s system you should consult your owner’s manual. If airbags are fitted, the steering wheel cover and/or dashboard cover will usually have the words ‘airbag’ or ‘SRS airbag’ moulded into them. An airbag is a fabric bag that inflates rapidly when required from the steering wheel centre or dashboard. SRS airbags have been in use for about 20 years. The SRS airbag inflator contains a solid chemical gas generator. The solid chemicals are safely stored in a metal chamber inside the SRS airbag module. Each inflator is sealed to keep out moisture. SRS airbags are designed to deploy in moderate to major crashes only and should not deploy in minor crashes. The following four steps show how the SRS airbag works: In an impact, sensors in the vehicle detect the sudden deceleration. If the crash is severe enough electricity flows to the inflator and causes ignition of the gas generator. The gas generator then rapidly burns in the metal chamber. The rapid burning produces inert gases and small amounts of dust. The inert gases and dust are cooled and filtered during inflation of the airbag. The inflating airbag splits open the trim cover. The airbag then rapidly unfolds and inflates in front of the occupant. Note: these steps take place in a fraction of a second. After inflation, the gas is vented through openings or open weave areas in the airbag. Airbags deflate in under a second and may be pushed aside for occupants to exit.

chuckyd4, IS the link still good??? It wants to use media player, but media player says the link is corrupt, or that it doesn't support this format...I have the "big three" players....

If living in the US gives you so much trouble, why not consider handing it over to the indians again? Geronimo for president! peepee, Your cognitive English comprehension needs a little work. Where does anything in the body of my message mention I'm having trouble living in the USA? Au contraire....I'm rich...I can afford my heat bills...I just want to be assured that the means needed to heat my home are available to me. GEORGE W. BUSH is providing me with that assurance. GOD BLESS GEORGE W. BUSH AND THESE UNITED STATES. FUCK THE MIDDLE EAST.....FEED'EM FISH!! DEEP Pork....

YIKES! If their story was made into a movie, no one would believe it!