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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 93 11:13:34 PST
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Reply-To: <surfpunk@osc.versant.com>
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From: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (na betna bs yrsgvfg ncbpnylcgvp pnhfrf)
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To: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (SURFPUNK Technical Journal)
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Subject: [surfpunk-0064] MEDIA: SciAm Speaks! ... a cyberculture invasion?
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||||||||||||| Well, by and large, "Reproductive Strategies of Frogs,"
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||||||||||||| by William E. Duellman [Scientific American, July 1992], is
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||||||||||||| -- J. A. Nunley, Milpitas Calif
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The availability of uncensored, unedited forums in the internet has
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given a global voice to those once silenced by the media. Although
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people have been writing letters to editors and publishing their own
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pamphlets for centuries, I do believe that the fine art of the widely-
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disseminated rant was perfected on the internet. Newsgroups like
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"net.flame", "talk.bizarre" and "alt.rant" have developed a culture
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that you can begin to recognize in other media. Perhaps someone has
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more insights whether this postmodern phenomenon is cyber-specific
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or whether it would have arisen without the net.
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One of _Mondo_2000_'s favorite features has been publishing rants to
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the editor. Now the respectable _Scientific_American_ has caught the virus.
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The following are Letters to the Editor from the current (April 93) issue.
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strick
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When will you publishers top propagandizing for speculative ideas
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such as the big bang and black holes? When they are discovered not to
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exist, what rationale will you use, since you plastered your magazine
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full of this nonsense? You are the publicity agents for birdbrain
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professors of physics.
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I give you till the end of the year to publish the fact that the
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observable universe is the last electron of plutonium.
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Ludwig Plutonium
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White River Junction, Vt
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________________________________________________________________________
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I hope you see some merit in my process for mass-manufacturing
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diamonds with subterranean nuclear explosions. One day in the not too
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distant future I may get to push a button and blow a coal mine in West
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Virginia all over creation. In the rubble will be diamonds you can
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pick up with a scoop loader.
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Unless you are sure for some reason that the process cannot work, I
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do not understand why _Scientific_American_ will not report on the
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possibilities of this process. I have already met the expected red
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tape in Washington, but that is something persistence and being right
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have always overcome. I will continue to keep you informed of the
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progress of this project. I am very sure somebody would like to be
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there when the button is pushed.
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James W Linck
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Lenner, La
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In regard to the failure of the Hubble Space Telescope: Yet again
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a very large amount of money has been lost probing the universe.
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The mirror makers, who are supposedly the best on earth, have been
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blamed for the poor pictures taken by the telescope. There may,
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however, be another explanation.
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Beyond the solar system there is nothing real! There is only a set
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of illusory images created by the boundless void in which the solar
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system is encased and reflected, as in a virtual spherical mirror. We
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are totally alone!
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There seems to be a need to refute this theory before squandering
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further terrestrial resources.
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Shafi Ahmed
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London
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In 1876 the entire membership of the American Society of Civil
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Engineers voted to use metric units only. It was internationally
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agreed in Paris in 1901 that mass is quantity of matter and that
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weight is force acting on mass. Yet there are universities,
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colleges, magazines and other entities that continue to use
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as units of measure the unsafe pound or the unsafe kilogram.
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Net mass is required for fair trade; "net weight" is a government
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lie! The Olympic sport is masslifting, not weightlifting. A fat
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person is overmass, not overweight, and should lose mass if he
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wants to be thinner. How long can "educators" expect to fool the
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public with unsafe words and unsafe units? You are just as fat on
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the moon, but only one sixth the weight!
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R C Gercke
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Los Angeles, Calif
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For 30 years, I enjoyed, devoured and carefully stored _Scientific_
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_American_ for reference. Now all is bleak 'round the battlements.
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Alas, "my" _Scientific_American_ is dead, replaced by a pale surrogate,
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an organ of leftist apocalyptic causes. This editorial swing leftward
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was expectable, considering the inexorable dilution of your once
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excellent staff by women.
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Loring Emery
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Hamburg Pa
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The SURFPUNK Technical Journal is a dangerous multinational hacker zine
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originating near BARRNET in the fashionable western arm of the northern
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California matrix. Quantum Californians appear in one of two states,
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spin surf or spin punk. Undetected, we are both, or might be neither.
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Send postings to <surfpunk@osc.versant.com>, subscription requests
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to <surfpunk-request@osc.versant.com>. MIME encouraged.
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Xanalogical archive access soon. Squandering further terrestrial resources.
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$ look phen
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phenol
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phenolic
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phenomena
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phenomenal
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phenomenology
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phenomenon
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phenotype
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phenyl
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phenylalanine
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