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SPACE Digest                                     Volume 10 : Issue 393

Today's Topics:
           Call for Submission of Articles
               Re: Antigravity
            Re: Photographer of the decade
           Re: Launching AUSSAT on Chinese rockets
            Re: Antigravity found?
               Re: Antigravity
         NASA Headline News for 01/02/90 (Forwarded)
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Date: 3 Jan 90 01:24:00 GMT
From: cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!pikes!udenva!isis!scicom!paranet!f428.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG![e-mail]  (Michael Corbin)
Subject: Call for Submission of Articles

CALL FOR SUBMISSION OF ARTICLES

ParaNet, through its new magazine, ODDYSEY:  A JOURNEY INTO
THE CONTINUUM, is now accepting articles for its bi-monthly
publication, first issue due in February 1990.

ParaNet has been publishing a newsletter, Oddysey, which
forms the basis for this new magazine with a new look.

Now you have a chance to speak your mind.  All writers,
professional and amateur, are encouraged to submit their
articles under the following guidelines:

* Payment:  All articles selected for publication will be
paid $.01 per word and 3 free issues of the magazine.
Payment is made within thirty days of publication.  This
scale will go up as our magazine sales increase.

* Maximum word count not to exceed 4,000 words.  Longer
articles will be reviewed and excerpted as necessary.  Most
articles with the maximum word count are generally used as
a Feature article.

* All material submitted, whether published or not, is not
returned to the author and becomes the sole property of
ParaNet.  This includes artwork and photographs.  Payment
to the author gives ParaNet all rights to first and
exclusive publication.

* Biographies must be submitted with the article.   A
photograph of the author is also preferred, but not
mandatory.  The biographies must contain the name, address,
telepone number and age of the author together with a
background of your interests.

* Who can submit?  Anyone.  We are interested in providing
a well-balanced viewpoint to man's greatest mystery.
Skeptics and believers alike are invited to participate.
All submissions should be responsible and well-thought out.

* What the magazine is:  Oddysey:  A Journey Into The
Continuum is a news magazine of interest to many different
backgrounds and disciplines.  It is an extension of ParaNet
Information Service, an international news and
investigative organization covering the paranormal. ParaNet
provides up-to-the-minute international news to the
computer public via its extensive network of computer
systems.  Our main interest is the UFO phenomena and other
related aspects. The following categories are being
solicited:

UFO -- All articles should be interesting and contemporary.
They can be anything from the latest in the political arena
to highly controversial cases. All ranges of the phenomena
will be considered.  All submissions must be accompanied
with notes and reference material for verification purposes
by Oddysey.

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY -- All articles should provide useful
information on the "cutting edge" of science and
technology. Not necessarily theme oriented to UFOs, however
some connection should be apparent.  Examples are
propulsion, space and astronomy, Theoretical physics, etc.
All submissions must be accompanied with notes and
reference material for verification purposes by Oddysey.

FICTION -- All articles should be oriented to fiction
dealing with a futuristic theme and should be related to
the overall slant of our publication.

PARANORMAL -- All articles should be paranormal oriented.
Examples are Fortean research, ghost research,
para-psychology, etc.  Non-UFO related material. This
material should be represented in a responsible fashion
with verifiable information.  Notes must be supplied with
the submission with verifiable references.

INTERVIEWS -- Anyone who is involved in the scientific
community or other organizations which are doing something
of general interest who wish to get exposure to the public
with their research or findings are invited to submit their
names together with a brief description of their
activities. Interviews will be conducted by Oddysey and
will be taped for editorial purposes.  Anyone selected for
a feature interview will not be paid and ParaNet shall have
sole rights to the interview and contents and future rights
for later use.

ARTWORK & PHOTOGRAPHS -- We are looking for interesting
photographs and artwork to use in the publication.  All
submissions will be negotiated with the person supplying
the material but will not exceed $20.00.  This, too, will
go up as sales increase.  We are interested also in
acquiring the talents of an artist for future use with the
magazine.

* Submissions are accepted in the following manner:

ELECTRONIC -- Submissions can be electronically received.
There are three ways that this can happen.  They can be
transmitted via Fidonet to ParaNet Alpha at 1:104/422. They
can be transmitted via UUCP at [e-mail]. They
can be directly uploaded to ParaNet Alpha by phoning
303-232-6115 at the 300/1200/2400/9600 Baud rates up to
23-hours per day.  In this case, simply upload them to any
library and leave the sysop a message upon logoff telling
the name of the article.  All submissions must be in
straight ASCII text with a line not wider than 75
characters.  No high bits or control codes can be in the
files.  Any material submitted not meeting these guidelines
will be not be considered and destroyed.

MAIL -- Submissions can be sent via Postal mail to the following address:

ParaNet Information Service
Attn:  Michael Corbin
P.O. Box 928
Wheatridge, CO  80034-0928

All articles must be double-spaced on a single side. Again,
be sure that they contain a biography and necessary
information as to who you are and how to contact you.

Final comments:  Oddysey has enjoyed a fairly wide
readership in the past.  It is currently distributed
throughout the United States and various European
countries. It is read by many scientific/research people
such as Dr. Bruce Maccabee, Dr. Richard Haines, and by
noted authors in the field including Budd Hopkins and
others.  It has gained tremendous popularity and will
continue to do so.  Anyone wishing to get subscription
information can contact Michael Corbin at 303-232-8303 or
electronically at the addresses listed above.

Thank you for your interest and we look forward to enjoying
a successful form of media and one which serious attention
is definitely necessary.

These guidelines are subject to change without notice.  All
changes will, of course, be posted as necessary.

--
Michael Corbin - via FidoNet node 1:104/422
UUCP: !scicom!paranet!User_Name
INTERNET: [e-mail]

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Date: 3 Jan 90 20:52:18 GMT
From: voder!dtg.nsc.com![e-mail]  (Lord Snooty @ The Giant Poisoned Electric Head )
Subject: Re: Antigravity

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (David Ray) writes:
>
>   I thought that when things go fast, close to the speed of light,
> their mass in our space-time-frame gets heavier, not lighter.
        correct
>   Is it relavistic effects that make the gyroscopes get lighter?
        not even close. at 12000 rpm, a small gyro is many orders
        down from c at its periphery to explain the massive effect
        in this manner.
--
...........................................................................
Andrew Palfreyman    a wet bird never flies at night        time sucks
[e-mail]    there are always two sides to a broken window

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Date: 2 Jan 90 20:47:31 GMT
From: concertina![e-mail]  (Steve Hix)
Subject: Re: Photographer of the decade

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Terrell Drinkard) writes:
>
>  [e-mail] (Edwin R. Carp) writes:
>  [e-mail] (David Anthony Kramer) writes:
> >>The editors of the magazine 'American Photo' nominated Voyager 2 as
> >>the photographer of the decade, although they leave the final award
> >Voyager, my eye!  Ansel Adams gets MY vote.
>
> Not to be overly picky, but Adams' most famous pictures were taken
> during his 1916 trip to Yosemite, not during the 1980s;

?????!

Adams' career was at its peak during the '30s and '40s.  He was one
of the founding members of f64, an influential group of realist
pictorial photographers, such as Edward Weston and Imogene Cunningham,
who were reacting to the soft-focus, hyperromantic approach of earlier
photographers such as Steiglitz.  (Who *was* active before the '20s.)

Ansel was probably still practicing his piano in preparation for a
career as a concert pianist in 1916, though.

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"...Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise
anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear
and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded..."

        Plato, _Phaedrus_ 275d

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Date: 2 Jan 90 07:03:33 GMT
From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au!ditmela!yarra!melba.bby.oz.au!leo![e-mail]  (Gregory N. Bond)
Subject: Re: Launching AUSSAT on Chinese rockets

Enough already!

Stick the politics in talk.politics.im-right-and-youre-wrong.  Or whatever.

The >space< relevance of this is that, without the cheap launch of
Long March, the AUSSAT would probably never be launched - it is
marginally economic at best.  Not to mention the shortage of launch
slots.

And Bush's ban meant that the very expensive hardware was going to sit
around unused.  This is expensive.  Who was going to pay for it?  Les
Patterson's old pal, the Australian Taxpayer.  Through no fault or
decision of our own.

(In reality, AUSSAT is losing buckets of dough on the underutilised
existing satellite.  Why launch a new one??)

Greg.
--
Gregory Bond, Burdett Buckeridge & Young Ltd, Melbourne, Australia
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Date: 2 Jan 90 19:05:49 GMT
From: mcsun!ukc!mucs![e-mail]
Subject: Re: Antigravity found?

In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>        The current issue of PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS (Volume 63, #25;
>    December 18, 1989) contains a description of an experiment which, if
>    confirmed, is stunning in its implications - in a word antigravity.
...
>        Basically, they take small, high-speed gyroscopes and weigh them
>    in a vacuum on a laboratory scale.  They find a definite reduction of
>    weight when they are rotated rightward, but none when they are rotated
>    leftward.

This reminds me of the claims of Prof. Eric Laithwaite some years ago.
In a memorable BBC TV broadcast of the Royal Society's Christmas
Lectures sometime in the the early 70s (I was about 10 years old at
the time, I think) he asserted that the behaviour of gyroscopes could
not be properly described by existing physics, and that something
really fundamentally odd was going on.  (This is from memory, when I
was young and innocent :-), perhaps others with better recall could
post more detail.)  Laithwaite had a track record for genuine
innovation (he invented the linear induction motor, I believe, and was
a full Prof [of elec. eng. I believe] at one of the London colleges
[Imperial?]), so was taken seriously I think.

Some years later I remember him appearing on the BBC's "Parkinson"
chat show.  He was still convinced that something revolutionary was
waiting to be discovered, and said that he booked a package on a
future Shuttle to prove whether the effect was genuine (this was
several, maybe 6 or 7, years before the first shuttle launch).
Clearly, it must have been some sort of effect influenced by gravity
(or possibly friction).

Does anybody out there (presumably older than me :-)) remember this,
or what became of Laithwaite's claims (or even the man himself; he was
a very good presenter of science)?  Did he fly a package on the
Shuttle?  Were his claims disproved, was he ignored, or did he just
change his mind?

Mario Wolczko

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Date: 3 Jan 90 04:06:57 GMT
From: portal!cup.portal.com![e-mail]  (Mark Robert Thorson)
Subject: Re: Antigravity

Jeez Louise!  Am I the only one to put two and two together:

1) Japanese buy backup Mir space station.  They don't buy the optional
   booster rocket.

2) Japanese reveal discovery of antigravity.

By this time next year, it'll be JAPAN which will be the leaders in space!
Anyone too obtuse to see that probably believes JFK was shot by Lee Harvey
Oswald!

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Date: 3 Jan 90 18:55:02 GMT
From: trident.arc.nasa.gov![e-mail]  (Peter E. Yee)
Subject: NASA Headline News for 01/02/90 (Forwarded)

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Tuesday, January 2, 1990                      Audio: 202/755-1788
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This is NASA Headline News for Tuesday, January 2....



Workers at Kennedy Space Center returned to the launch pad today
following the long weekend and began preparing the space shuttle
Columbia for flight next week.  The STS-32 mission is scheduled
for lift off at 8:06 A.M., Eastern time, Monday, January 8.
Mission managers are reviewing what needs to be completed before
beginning the count on Saturday.

With the launch set for Monday the 8th...a series of briefings on
the mission is currently scheduled for Sunday starting at 9:00
A.M., Eastern...beginning with a launch countdown status and
culminating with a pre-launch press conference at 3:00 P.M.



The tenth attempt to launch a commercial Titan 3 rocket from Cape
Canaveral was successful sunday evening.  At 7:07 P.M., Eastern
time, the Martin-Marietta booster carrying two communications
satellites lifted off in a spectacular after-dark light show.
Hours later both the British Defense Ministry Skynet and the
Japanese JCSAT-2 were kicked into geosynchronous orbits.  Check
out of the satellites and permanent positioning of the spacecraft
is currently underway.



A French remote sensing satellite...the Spot 2...is being
prepared for launch on January 10 at the French-owned Ariane
launch facility at Kourou, French Guiana.  Six subsatellites will
also be placed into orbit by the booster...an Ariane 40.  The
rocket will place the spot 2 into a sun-synchronous polar orbit.
The three-axis spin-stabilized Spot 2 was developed by the French
space agency...CNES.  Aerospace Daily reports the Spot 2 will
provide black and white earth surface images with 10 meter
resolution and multispectral-color images with 20 meter
resolution.



Aerospace Daily also reports that a score of Brazilian scientists
and technicians are in China this week for a two-month joint
project to begin design of a remote sensing satellite that will
be used by both nations.


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Thursday, January 4....

    11:30 A.M.    NASA Update will be transmitted.

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Saturday, January 6....

    9:00 A.M.     Launch countdown status report


Sunday, January 7.....

    9:00 A.M.     Launch countdown status report

   11:00 A.M.     SYNCOM briefing

   12:00 P.M.     Circadian rhythym science briefing

    1:00 P.M.     Commercial payloads briefing

    2:00 P.M.     Long Duration Exposure Facility briefing

    3:00 P.M.     Pre-launch news conference


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