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John Beaderstadt - 17 Apr 2004 21:02 GMT
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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

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OM - 17 Apr 2004 22:26 GMT
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...Old news. Then again, you probably missed it because you've got
everyone killfiled these days, including me.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.  

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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
:-)

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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

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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.]

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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.

[snip]
 

> 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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