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John Beaderstadt - 17 Apr 2004 21:02 GMT Coming soon to an In-box near you:
Subject: Nigerian Astronaut Wants To Come Home Dr. Bakare Tunde Astronautics Project Manager National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) Plot 555 Misau Street PMB 437 Garki, Abuja, FCT NIGERIA
Dear Mr. Sir,
REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE-STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
I am Dr. Bakare Tunde, the cousin of Nigerian Astronaut, Air Force Major Abacha Tunde. He was the first African in space when he made a secret flight to the Salyut 6 space station in 1979. He was on a later Soviet spaceflight, Soyuz T-16Z to the secret Soviet military space station Salyut 8T in 1989. He was stranded there in 1990 when the Soviet Union was dissolved. His other Soviet crew members returned to earth on the Soyuz T-16Z, but his place was taken up by return cargo. There have been occasional Progrez supply flights to keep him going since that time. He is in good humor, but wants to come home.
In the 14-years since he has been on the station, he has accumulated flight pay and interest amounting to almost $ 15,000,000 American Dollars. This is held in a trust at the Lagos National Savings and Trust Association. If we can obtain access to this money, we can place a down payment with the Russian Space Authorities for a Soyuz return flight to bring him back to Earth. I am told this will cost $ 3,000,000 American Dollars. In order to access the his trust fund we need your assistance.
Consequently, my colleagues and I are willing to transfer the total amount to your account or subsequent disbursement, since we as civil servants are prohibited by the Code of Conduct Bureau (Civil Service Laws) from opening and/ or operating foreign accounts in our names.
Needless to say, the trust reposed on you at this juncture is enormous. In return, we have agreed to offer you 20 percent of the transferred sum, while 10 percent shall be set aside for incidental expenses (internal and external) between the parties in the course of the transaction. You will be mandated to remit the balance 70 percent to other accounts in due course.
Kindly expedite action as we are behind schedule to enable us include downpayment in this financial quarter.
Please acknowledge the receipt of this message via my direct number 234 (0) 9-234-2220 only.
Yours Sincerely, Dr. Bakare Tunde Astronautics Project Manager
-------------- Beady's Corollary to Occam's Razor: "The likeliest explanation of any phenomenon is almost always the most boring one imaginable."
OM - 17 Apr 2004 22:26 GMT >Coming soon to an In-box near you: ...Old news. Then again, you probably missed it because you've got everyone killfiled these days, including me.
OM
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LooseChanj - 17 Apr 2004 21:49 GMT >>Coming soon to an In-box near you: > > ...Old news. Then again, you probably missed it because you've got > everyone killfiled these days, including me. Ah, but JimO posted it in the first place. If Beady has himself killfiled, how did he see it to begin with? Whatever happened to those chinese that got caught out by the shuttle launch pads a few months before 9/11?
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John Beaderstadt - 18 Apr 2004 01:36 GMT >Ah, but JimO posted it in the first place. If Beady has himself killfiled, >how did he see it to begin with? Seriously, I seem to have an extremely severe propagation problem. Many posts take a week or so to get to me (even though I often see replies to those same posts almost immediately), and I'm positive that I entirely miss more than a few.
-------------- Beady's Corollary to Occam's Razor: "The likeliest explanation of any phenomenon is almost always the most boring one imaginable."
Mary Shafer - 18 Apr 2004 02:44 GMT > >Ah, but JimO posted it in the first place. If Beady has himself killfiled, > >how did he see it to begin with? [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > replies to those same posts almost immediately), and I'm positive that > I entirely miss more than a few. I've found the German server to be very complete for the sci.* hierarchy. Have you considered trying it?
Mary
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John Beaderstadt - 18 Apr 2004 01:34 GMT On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 15:26:55 -0600, OM <om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_research_facility.org> wrote:
>...Old news. Then again, you probably missed it because you've got >everyone killfiled these days, including me. I guess you missed the part a few weeks ago, where I've only got Maxson, Tony Lance and Brad Guth still killed off. Oh, and CT, of course.
-------------- Beady's Corollary to Occam's Razor: "The likeliest explanation of any phenomenon is almost always the most boring one imaginable."
OM - 18 Apr 2004 02:49 GMT >I guess you missed the part a few weeks ago, where I've only got >Maxson, Tony Lance and Brad Guth still killed off. Oh, and CT, of >course. ...Good. I was hoping one day you'd come around to your senses. That's one of the reasons I never bothered to munge up my e-mail address to foil your killfile. I had faith you'd realize you were going a bit overboard when you killfiled me a while back.
Of course, now that you can read my posts again, I gotta repost all those nasty things I said about Mrs. Beady that you missed...:-P :-P
OM
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Scott Hedrick - 18 Apr 2004 03:18 GMT >That's > one of the reasons I never bothered to munge up my e-mail address to > foil your killfile. I hated doing it, but the spam filled my box several times a day, mostly viruses touting the latest Microsoft security fix. Heck, that's why I got a Yahoo! account, as a spam magnet so it wouldn't fill up my normal accounts (which already get hefty amounts of spam).
After munging, my box hasn't filled up all week. I thought it was because of the change.
Today I discovered it's because Yahoo! changed it's policy and doesn't count bulk mail against my account.
Doug... - 18 Apr 2004 17:28 GMT > >That's > > one of the reasons I never bothered to munge up my e-mail address to [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > Today I discovered it's because Yahoo! changed it's policy and doesn't count > bulk mail against my account. I had the same problem -- I was getting more than a thousand of those virii-spam e-mails a day. (Well, OK, about 500 of those a day and about 500 failure messages due to other peoples' infected computers spoofing my address into their From fields.) It was *all* from the Sven virus.
What I did was to: a) drop off from posting for a couple of months (not hard, since it was a busy time in my life), b) munge my address as it appears in my posts and in my "reply-to" fields, and c) leave the RoadRunner mailbox alone for about three weeks. (It didn't have much of anything important coming to it, not that couldn't wait a couple of weeks.)
After all of that, my Sven attacks have gone down to about 10 e-mails a day, at most. Some days, I get nothing at all. So, it *can* be overcome!
Doug dvandorn@NOSPAM.mn.rr.com
Hop David - 19 Apr 2004 02:38 GMT > What I did was to: a) drop off from posting for a couple of months (not > hard, since it was a busy time in my life), b) munge my address as it [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > day, at most. Some days, I get nothing at all. So, it *can* be > overcome! I was getting the same and have also seen a dramatic drop. But didn't take any of those measures (I think my "reply to" address has been altered for some time).
I believe the virus mails have dropped because a large number of formerly clueless people have finally stopped opening attachments and/or purchased anti-virus software.
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Alejandro Zuzek - 19 Apr 2004 13:40 GMT > After all of that, my Sven attacks have gone down to about 10 e-mails a > day, at most. Some days, I get nothing at all. So, it *can* be > overcome! > > Doug You can't trust anyone these days. Wasn't Sven Grahn the one who had the page about old sovied spacecraft radio listenings and also about the mystery satellite of the month? And now he is attacking other s.s.* posters!
(sorry, couldn't resist)
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John Beaderstadt - 18 Apr 2004 12:55 GMT On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 19:49:50 -0600, OM <om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_research_facility.org> wrote:
>...Good. I was hoping one day you'd come around to your senses. From where I sit, it was more a case of you coming to yours. Don't you have any idea how truly overboard you were going?
>Of course, now that you can read my posts again, I gotta repost all >those nasty things I said about Mrs. Beady that you missed...:-P :-P Heh heh. I think I would have seen a few outraged replies from some of her admirers.
BTW, Mrs Beady is away on business until mid to late May, down in the Savannah area. I'll be joining her at the end of the period, then we're hitting KSC and the Orlando area for a few days.
-------------- Beady's Corollary to Occam's Razor: "The likeliest explanation of any phenomenon is almost always the most boring one imaginable."
OM - 18 Apr 2004 20:21 GMT >BTW, Mrs Beady is away on business until mid to late May, down in the >Savannah area. I'll be joining her at the end of the period, then >we're hitting KSC and the Orlando area for a few days. ...Not before you spend a day relating what treasures she brought home
:-) OM
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Pat Flannery - 19 Apr 2004 04:49 GMT >...Not before you spend a day relating what treasures she brought home >:-) > > Yeah, this time it will probably be "How I Did It" by Victor Frankenstein.
Pat
Brad Guth / GASA - 21 Apr 2004 07:29 GMT Hi John, how's your space toilet these days?
BTW; Space.com and at least a dozen other somewhat nicer places are almost as bad off as this Borg collective that's got mother or father GOOGLE as your own personal incest cloning incubator. Too bad there's other ways of telling the truth besides within this cesspool.
There's still the usual updates: http://guthvenus.tripod.com/update-242.htm
There are few perfectly good number of things to say about "Immanuel Velikovsky" and of what's seriously cooking about Venus at the Space.com site, the topic is: There's been life on Venus in spite of Velikovsky [by: bradguth] and it's posted in their Space Science & Astronomy. http://uplink.space.com/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Board=sciastro&Number=698046&Searc h=true&Forum=All_Forums&Words=Immanuel%20Velikovsky&Match=Entire%20Phrase&Search page=0&Limit=25&Old=1week&Main=686151
Immanuel Velikovsky wasn't an Einstein http://www.varchive.org/
http://www.halexandria.org/dward108.htm "According to Immanuel Velikovsky, a close encounter by the Earth with Venus resulted in a change in the number of days in the year from 360 to 365.24. At that point of Ages in Chaos, the five feast days were added."
http://www.halexandria.org/dward197.htm "Upon the publication of Worlds in Collision in 1950, Velikovsky was nearly laughed out of science, the publisher of his book was forced (because of its large number of academic textbooks) to sell the best-selling publishing rights to another non-academic publisher, and since then, the old guard has done everything in its power to discredit the very idea of Near-Earth Objects (and thus the possibility of collisions) and even the remote possibility of any reconstruction of history. In the latter vein, one history student, Kelly Kincaid, wrote her senior thesis on the idea that if new evidence was found which contradicted history, could the "official" history then be changed -- only to find her history professor so incensed by her example (one from Velikovsky) that he, by example, proved her thesis that indeed history could not be changed from mere evidence."
It seems the holy grail of what's opposing other life, be that of Mars, Venus or of somewhere external (such as Sirius) to our one of a kind solar system, of which folks opposing the likes of my research have either directly stipulated and/or confined their supposed knowledge as on that endless "need to know" basis, though usually it's been their "nondisclousure" all the way, as well as for insuring that Earth remains as representing their one and only Godly place there is (period!). So, it clearly isn't the laws of physics nor of believable science that's utilizing our best efforts upon honest research, and subsequently drawing upon the works of others and thereby obtaining for myself a broader set of rational perspectives, and of sharing analogies to what's otherwise well accepted as undeniable fact, because absolutely none of that matters.
After reading only a bit into Immanuel Velikovsky, it's apparent that as good as he was (far better than myself and thereby vastly superior to those incest intestinal "GOOGLE" and "Space.Com" freaks opposed to absolutely everything under their one and only sun, he still wasn't an Einstein, or at least he wasn't actually trying to be even and equal, as it's clear that Immanuel Velikovsky looked up to the standards and qualifications of Einstein, rather than not to piss off God No.2
Though I'll have to admit, that even the likes of Einstein were somewhat skewed (no fault of his own) by his Jewish foundations, which were as fanatical by any definition you'd care to imply. Though for better than worse, Einstein managed to keep a reasonable lid on what was by any standard an underlying Jewish cloak and dagger of great proportions. So, when Einstein objected to some of Velikovskys' research, at least it was accomplished with sincerely polite context and of meaningful substance, but then it also wasn't so much scientific as it was of the honest persuasion by his involuntary Jewish humanity (sort of a Jewish DNA/RNA trait kicking in, much like some antibody defending the troops), and at least I'd still consider such as being somewhat modest though remaining quite a respectable religious influence, but of an influence none the less, and as you know for a fact that irregardless of whatever the truth(s) may be, especially if it's in opposition or could potentially lead to opposition to what's already recorded as history, you simply can't suggest squat much less argue against another mans' religion, as that would be like telling the Pope it wasn't such a good idea of exterminating all those Cathars, as chances are you wouldn't leave Vatican City alive to tell the story.
So much for honest and objective science, and for excluding humor goes without saying, as the truth remains within either of the Catholic, Jewish or whatever sort of Godly toilet of life, whereas the church alone has more often than not seen fit as to endorse and/or proliferate whatever suits their agenda, if need be until hell freezes over, and that's another fact. So, perhaps we don't actually need physics nor science, as you can pick and choose between almost any religion on Earth in order to justify upon and/or refutiate nearly anything imaginable, and even a whole lot of what's not imaginable that simply hasn't been uncovered may easily be resolved by either skewing the interpretations to suit or to simply switch Gods in mid-stream.
This isn't myself nor of nice folks like Immanuel Velikovsky saying that every soul associated with any religion is a born liar and a dirty rotten scoundrel, as the vast majority of such folks are super terrific in nearly every way, though no one is perfect and unfortunately they'll more often than not follow whomever is leading, asking few if any questions, which is another downright shame if there ever was, as humanity has paid the ultimate price over and over whenever the truth simply can't be told, and as a results folks simply never learn a damn thing.
Personally, I happen to think my God can seriously kick the other Gods' butt, though that's just my village idiot opinion that needs to be shared from time to time.
As far as what Immanuel Velikovsky had to offer humanity, there's certainly a great deal there to contemplate, as there are some items suggesting along the very same lines that I've come into conclusions upon prior to my ever reading a paragraph of his. So, chance are that I'll draw upon a few items initially out of context from the works of Velikovsky, with no intent of my skewing his interpretations, but solely as to better formulate the sorts of wording and references that might shed a little friendly light upon our moon, Venus and the likes of what Sirius might have to offer humanity that's sharing the brightest UV/a spectrum and sheer capacity of photosynthesis performance anywhere to being had within range of our solar system.
If you're one of those opposed to any of this, I'd have to think that you'd be equally opposed to absolutely anything that's against your nonscientific beliefs, and just out of spite you'd certainly accommodate those deeds of whatever your God expects of you, without question and without remorse. Now which one of us is the real danger to humanity?
Jonathan Silverlight - 21 Apr 2004 08:27 GMT Nothing
I loathe people who change their address to get past kill files
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John Beaderstadt - 21 Apr 2004 20:44 GMT >Nothing > >I loathe people who change their address to get past kill files It didn't matter, really. Brad's ego is so big that he can never truly disguise himself. I mean, really! "mds-brad@juno.com"? I had a pretty good feeling that was him, so just skipped over it. Thank you, though, for confirming my hunch.
Come to think of it, Brad sort of reminds me of one of our cats. Merle has this game where he hides behind a curtain so he can pounce on your foot as you walk by. He never seems to notice that only his front half is hidden, and his a.s-end is out in plain view. We play along, though; it's fun for all of us.
[I now have this image of Brad as a Venusian fire woman covered in fur, with his tail sticking straight up.]
-------------- Beady's Corollary to Occam's Razor: "The likeliest explanation of any phenomenon is almost always the most boring one imaginable."
OM - 22 Apr 2004 10:36 GMT >I mean, really! "mds-brad@juno.com"? ...mds = master dog sucker, natch.
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C. Leroy Ellenberger - 23 Apr 2004 22:50 GMT The time is long past when a defense of Velikovsky, such as this below, is justified. For a capsule comment in the regard, consider "Worlds Still Colliding" <http://abob.libs.uga.edu/bobk/velstcol.html>, written in 2001 for Skeptic magazine.
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> Immanuel Velikovsky wasn't an Einstein http://www.varchive.org/ > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > to 365.24. At that point of Ages in Chaos, the five feast days were > added." There is no good reason and no physical evidence to support the notion of such a close encounter between Venus and Earth as recently as Velikovsky posited, namely, within the past 3500 years.
> http://www.halexandria.org/dward197.htm > "Upon the publication of Worlds in Collision in 1950, Velikovsky was > nearly laughed out of science, the publisher of his book was forced > (because of its large number of academic textbooks) to sell the > best-selling publishing rights to another non-academic publisher, and The rights were NOT "sold" to Doubleday by Macmillan in 1950. They were "transferred".
> since then, the old guard has done everything in its power to > discredit the very idea of Near-Earth Objects (and thus the > possibility of collisions) and even the remote possibility of any > reconstruction of history. In the latter vein, one history student, This is a crude misrepresentation. What is objected to in Velikovsky's work is NOT the idea of asteroids, i.e., "near-earth objects", crashing into us, but the notion that Venus and Mars crossed Earth's orbit within the past 3500 years. This is belied by the circular orbits of the moons of Mars and our Moon. Had those satellites been disturbed by planetary near-collisions so recently, their orbits would be decidedly oval.
As "Worlds Still Colliding" points out, Velikovsky's fatal flaw was his false premise that the planets were the first gods when the planets were named after gods whose origin had nothing to do with planets.
C. Leroy Ellenberger, formerly confidant to Velikovsky, 4/78--11/79. "An Antidote to Velikovskian Delusions" <http://abob.libs.uga.edu/bobk/velidelu.html>
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