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April, 2002
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Editor's Voice The Forgotten Constellation There are twelve constellations assigned to the zodiac, but the sun actually travels through thirteen each year. The forgotten constellation is Ophiuchus vel Serpentarius (Latin for Ophiuchus the Serpent Holder), known also as Serpentaire in French. He fills most of the large void between Antares and Vega. Ophiuchus is shown holding a serpent named Serpens, divided into two parts. Its head, shown on the map as Serpens Caput, extends to the west of Ophiuchus, while its tail, Serpens Cauda, lies to the east. Welcome new readers - for those on the mailing list, please contact me if you have any problems with the HTML format. ~Sara News...
Warner Bros., The studio that brought us "The Matrix", has hired Stephen Norrington, director of the first "Blade", to direct the American live action version of the Japanese classic, "Akira". Norrington says he will "preserves the tone, the visual and the epic scope of the original, whilst telling a somewhat more accessible story." "Akira"
is one of the most popular magna and anime titles ever to come from
the land of the rising sun, and centers on a biker punk who has
psycho-kinetic powers implanted via the Akira project. His new telekinetic
powers drive him to the edge of insanity as he wreaks havoc through
Neo Tokyo searching for an elusive telepathic being. the military
operative in charge of the Akira project as well as his former gang
leader frantically try to hunt him down before his powers destroy
the world.
"I would like to thank 20th Century Fox Television, UPN and especially our fans, whose combined efforts helped get us a third season for "Roswell"," series co-creator Jason Katims wrote in a statement to industry news outlets. "[Executive producer] Ronald D. Moore and I had the fans very much on our minds when we were writing this final episode. We felt they deserved a great ending." The
final episode will air May 14. Scientists Test First Human Cyborg... British university professor has been fitted with cyborg technology enabling his nervous system to be linked to a computer. The ground-breaking surgery on Professor Kevin Warwick effectively makes him the world's first cyborg -- part human, part machine. Although a long way from fictional characters like The Terminator, it is hoped that readings will be taken from the implant in his arm of electrical impulses coursing through his nerves. For
the first time, signals encoding movements like wiggling fingers
and feelings like shock and pain will be transmitted to a computer
and recorded. Until now, similar experiments have only been carried
out on cats and monkeys in the United States. Surgeons implanted
a silicon square about 3mm wide into an incision in Warwick's left
wrist and attached its 100 electrodes, each as thin as a hair, into
the median nerve. Connecting wires were fed under the skin of the
forearm and out from a skin puncture and the wounds were sewn up.
Internet Radio Listening Up Almost 100 Percent This Year MeasureCast, Inc. (www.measurecast.com), the first company to provide Internet radio broadcasters with next-day streaming audience size and demographics data, today reported that Web radio stations are streaming more hours of programming than ever before. During
the week of April 8, the MeasureCast Internet Radio Listening Index·
-- a representation of the trend in Total Time Spent Listening (TTSL)
across a spectrum of on-line stations measured by MeasureCast -
increased 9 percent. Since Jan. 6, 2002, the index has risen 99
percent. And since January 2001, the index has increased 563 percent.
The
science of Star Trek Don't
try this alone...
Featured
Quotation (Thanks to Logos.it) German
- der Teufel ist ein Optimist wenn er denkt er könnte Menschen
noch gemeiner machen
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