HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: bjbisset@eos.ncsu.edu (Billy J. Bissette)
Subject: Re: Physical Constants List
Originator: bjbisset@c00009-118dan.eos.ncsu.edu
Keywords: asteroid
Reply-To: bjbisset@eos.ncsu.edu (Billy J. Bissette)
Organization: Raise A Great Old One Foundation
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:48:30 GMT


In article <43939@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>, mbelmont@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Matthew Belmonte) writes:
>In article <1993Jan21.194306.12763@ncsu.edu> bjbisset@eos.ncsu.edu (BILLY JOE
>BISSETTE) writes:
>
>>Divert?!  Why would we want to divert asteroids?  This is alt.destroy.the.earth
>
>Yes this *is* alt.destroy.the.earth, and that's precisely why we want to figure
>out how to divert asteroids (or comets).  Take Swift-Tuttle for example.  Earth
>[most of the rest deleted for space reasons, If you want to read it, read the
>original...]

  Sorry, reflex action.  I'm so used to hearing how we should divert asteroids
AWAY from the earth.  I thought an eco-hobbit invaded the group, as they
occasionally do.  Of course I can understand diverting an asteroid INTO the
Earth.

>(Yes, I realise that simpler ways exist of at least devastating the entire
>planetary surface, but such a base finale would lack spectacle.  When we go out
>we need a spectacle.  Better than any fireworks show, better even than any bomb
>test, it would be a truly cosmic end.)

  To bad about not sending the Earth into the sun though...What are the odds
of a country developing an unrestrained fusion or fission device?  Sure, an
asteroid or comet would take out all life, but I'd rather literally destroy the
WHOLE planet...Now that would be beautiful...

>-- 
>Matthew Belmonte	mbelmonte@ucsd.edu
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:20:27 EST
From: <RSJ107@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.destroy.the.earth
Subject: a better use for excess energy

    If we had something orbiting the Earth collecting enough energy to do most
anything, the first thing we would have to do is heat up Mars.  You see, then
we could send all the "undesirable" people from this planet to a colony on
Mars.  We could also send all of our refuse there, leaving Earth as a
beautiful gleaming ball of steel and glass floating through space.
    Next, we could use the energy to power a huge computer the size of Butte,
Montana that was completely automated and could construct robots, machines,
and other computers to do any physical labor so the human race could spend more
time learning how to become more dangerous.  We have to work faster at
conquering the light barrier, or at least find a way to make interstellar
travel much easier.  That way we can explore other planets, and hopefully find
new life forms to enslave or exterminate.

                                    The Future Could Be A Better Place

                                                   Nexroth
Newsgroups: alt.destroy.the.earth
From: bjbisset@eos.ncsu.edu (BILLY JOE BISSETTE)
Subject: Re: recent increases in tadpole population
Originator: bjbisset@c00009-118dan.eos.ncsu.edu
Reply-To: bjbisset@eos.ncsu.edu (BILLY JOE BISSETTE)
Organization: Raise A Great Old One Foundation
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:04:37 GMT


In article <93025.152144PAB120@psuvm.psu.edu>, <PAB120@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>  I find myself not being able to sleep at night because those blasted tadpoles
> are outside my window...
>  ARGH!!!
>its 3:30 AM and those tadpoles from hell are at it again...
>that constant chirping and squirming makes me so....
>Whats that?
>River turkies, river turkies everywhere!!!

  Well, looks like the tadpoles may have decided to take out a few humans,
themselves.  Should nature be encouraged to only take out the human race,
though? I say NO.  Should we allow eco-hobbits to nuture nature an restrain
humans to the point where we become extinct?  I say NO!  Maybe environmental
weaponry is the way to go, sure it won't destroy the whole planet, but it does
have that little bit of irony...a last blow to those lunatics who think humans
are worthless creatures which should be destroyed and nature should reign
supreme.  So, help accelerate the growth of tadpoles, kill their predetors,
accelerate their prey.  Throw the ecosystem out of balance, If we work together,
we can do it.  And if we are discrete enough, maybe they won't notice til its
too late.
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:21:44 EST
From: <PAB120@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.destroy.the.earth
Subject: recent increases in tadpole population

  I find myself not being able to sleep at night because those blasted tadpoles
 are outside my window...
  ARGH!!!
its 3:30 AM and those tadpoles from hell are at it again...
that constant chirping and squirming makes me so....
Whats that?
River turkies, river turkies everywhere!!!
From: bjbisset@eos.ncsu.edu (BILLY JOE BISSETTE)
Newsgroups: alt.destroy.the.earth
Subject: Re: a better use for excess energy
Date: 27 Jan 93 02:14:32 GMT
Reply-To: bjbisset@eos.ncsu.edu (BILLY JOE BISSETTE)
Organization: Raise A Great Old One Foundation
Originator: bjbisset@c00004-118dan.eos.ncsu.edu


  You sound as if you want to mastermind this whole plot, to sit back and have
everyone work for you!  What gives you the right to rule, nay, the right to
live?  You think you don't deserve to die with everyone else?  You want to
outlive everyone and everything?  Heresy, it is heresy!  I banish thee back to
alt.slack where you shalt remember how to ask "Give me $20 or kill me," and
someone from alt.destroy.the.earth will kill you...  Everyone and everything
must be taken out, it is the nature of destruction.  There is no such thing as
the worthy...

PS: Speaking of $20, the "Raise A Great Old One Foundation" is in need of funds.
Please send $20 dollars so that I can order a plush, adorable Cthulhu which I
can raise for the followers...Gotta keep the faith....8)
From: crow@coos.dartmouth.edu (Preston F. Crow)
Newsgroups: alt.destroy.the.earth
Subject: Re: Physical Constants List
Date: 22 Jan 93 01:11:22 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

In <1993Jan21.194306.12763@ncsu.edu> bjbisset@eos.ncsu.edu (BILLY JOE BISSETTE) writes:


>dsg@impmh.uucp (Dave Gordon) writes:
>>Thus a mirror in Earth orbit could collect well over *1GW* per square
>>kilometre, even after allowing for losses. That's a lot of power - surely
>>someone can find an application for it (diverting asteroids springs to mind)!

>Divert?!  Why would we want to divert asteroids?  This is alt.destroy.the.earth.
>There are much better uses for that much power.  We could have a giant
>bar-b-cue... 8)

>PS: nice work on the data, but why did you write m/s as m s^-1, I mean m/s is
>so much more pleasant to the eye...

Diverting asteroids can be a lot of fun.  Just imagine...

"AP (NASA): Saddam has again refused to comply with the U.N.
sanctions.  The US has warned him that he has 24 hours left to
reconsider his position before his nation is turned into a giant
crater."

Or suppose Panama decided to refuse to let us use the canal that we
gave them...

"AP (Central America): The nation of Panama was destroyed by a
collision with a passing asteroid that mysteriously altered its course
and crashed into the Earth.  Currently, there are no reported
casualties, though several hundred-thousand people are missing.  The
crater has flooded and now provides a fifty-mile wide channel suitable
for ocean-going vessels."

Wouldn't it be wonderful?

--PC


--
Only be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the
things your eyes have seen or let them slip from your heart as long as you
live.  Teach them to your children and to their children after them.
Remember the day you stood before the Lord your God...       --Deut 4:9-10a
From: jah7931@tamsun.tamu.edu (What?)
Newsgroups: alt.destroy.the.earth
Subject: Re: Physical Constants List
Date: 22 Jan 1993 10:22:14 -0600
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
NNTP-Posting-Host: tamsun.tamu.edu
Keywords: alfred oouh

In article <C18Dz1.E0p@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> crow@coos.dartmouth.edu (Preston F. Crow) writes:


>Diverting asteroids can be a lot of fun.  Just imagine...

>"AP (Central America): The nation of Panama was destroyed by a
>collision with a passing asteroid that mysteriously altered its course
>and crashed into the Earth.  Currently, there are no reported
>casualties, though several hundred-thousand people are missing.  The
>crater has flooded and now provides a fifty-mile wide channel suitable
>for ocean-going vessels."

>Wouldn't it be wonderful?

>--PC


Yes!
This kind of catastrophe would wreak a lovely
havoc on those aquatic ecosystems existing in
the currently separate Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans.
Some more of g*dd's little creatures suffer
at the hands of all-mighty man! 



--jim
From: RSJ107@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.destroy.the.earth
Subject: Re: What one oil company is doing for the cause...
Date: 26 Jan 93 21:05:31 GMT
Organization: Penn State University


    Answer me this:  where is UNOCAL headquartered and how can I apply for a

job?

                                              Nexroth
From: mbelmont@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Matthew Belmonte)
Newsgroups: alt.destroy.the.earth
Subject: Re: Physical Constants List
Summary: asteroidal or cometary eschatology
Keywords: asteroid
Date: 24 Jan 93 01:04:58 GMT
Followup-To: alt.destroy.the.earth
Organization: UCSD Neurosciences

In article <1993Jan21.194306.12763@ncsu.edu> bjbisset@eos.ncsu.edu (BILLY JOE
BISSETTE) writes:

>Divert?!  Why would we want to divert asteroids?  This is alt.destroy.the.earth

Yes this *is* alt.destroy.the.earth, and that's precisely why we want to figure
out how to divert asteroids (or comets).  Take Swift-Tuttle for example.  Earth
is within the current error bounds for a collision in the early 22nd century.
In this case Nature has at least come close to setting up a pretty good
eschatology.  But sometimes Nature needs a helping hand from human ingenuity.
Imagine the dashed hopes and renewed existential fears of all the people who
would suddenly be faced with life again after a near-miss.  Such a scenario must
be avoided at all costs.  What world governments should do is organise a massive
research and development effort so that when the time comes we'll be able to
target Swift-Tuttle dead-centre on this miserable little globe.  We could call
this effort `the Tunguska Project'.

(Yes, I realise that simpler ways exist of at least devastating the entire
planetary surface, but such a base finale would lack spectacle.  When we go out
we need a spectacle.  Better than any fireworks show, better even than any bomb
test, it would be a truly cosmic end.)
-- 
Matthew Belmonte	mbelmonte@ucsd.edu
`The Bohemian Kingdom' - Risley Residential College for the Creative and
Performing Arts, Ithaca, New York
From: corleyj@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Jason D Corley )
Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
Subject: Re: Simon, get a life!!!
Date: 26 Jan 93 02:46:42 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson

In article <C1FI1u.HKo@mach1.wlu.ca> kali7706@mach1.wlu.ca (Paula Kalijarvi u) writes:
>	And by the way, I don't think you deserve an unlife if you can't
>deal with your present one.
>

Oh, come now.  Is that really fair?  It's obvious the lobotomy just
didn't have the effect I expected.  [sigh]

All that Jell-O gone to waste.  What's that, Frank?  It had little bits
of fruit in it?  YOU USED THE _*FRUITY*_ JELLO ON HIM???? You FOOL!
[whack whack whack]

Sorry about that, but Frank's going to have a little pain now.  Bring me
that crowbar and give me your elbow, Frank.

Mad Science At Work!

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Jason D. "corleyj@gas.uug.arizona.edu" Corley, Poet, Polymath, Scoundrel.
Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
From: mab7g@Virginia.EDU ("midori meech baer")
Subject: Re: how to?
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 22:35:08 GMT

i am not liking you, jason corley. . .

-mi-chan 
Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
From: taylor@ccrs.emr.ca (Trevor Taylor)
Subject: Re: The Dead Can Dance - Vamp Music
Organization: Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Ottawa
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:15:18 GMT


Ahhhhhh, Dead can Dance


	This group consists of two people; a woman with a fantastic
voice and one other guy with a slightly worse voice.

	They use a combination of electronic, acoustic and vocals
based loosely on themes. One album is very medieval, very Gothic,
another is loosely based upon middle eastern trends and a third
sounds quite industrial. The mood is excellent --- chanting and
actual lyrics as well.

	I'll post a list of there albums later..... if you are
in a record store, the group is sometimes hard to find because
it is tough to classify.... 

	I found there albums under New age (iccck), pop, rock and
alternative ....so check out the unusual sections.

More Later

Trevor
From: jokerman@kaffee.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Karl-Heinz Meurer)
Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
Subject: Jeffrey Sackett: Blood of the Impaler
Date: 28 Jan 93 15:06:00 GMT
Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik - RWTH Aachen
NNTP-Posting-Host: kaffee.informatik.rwth-aachen.de

I once read a book by Jeffrey Sackett, Blood of the Impaler, based on
 Stokers Dracula and combining it with the historical Vlad the Impaler.
 Does anybody know, whether Sackett has ever written a follow up to     
 this, since the story had an open end?

 Karl-Heinz Meurer (jokerman@i1.informatik.rwth-aachen.de)


Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
From: laszlo@netcom.com (Laszlo)
Subject: Re: vampires
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 12:45:08 GMT

mason4@server.uwindsor.ca (MASON  CHRIS L           ) writes:

>I go to the university of windsor and when not there I live in Toronto.  I
>would be very interested in meeting any "human" vampires (those who practise
>vampire things liking drinking and sharing blood) or those who simply want 
>to be vampires.  I have never, to my knowledge, met any such person, besides
>here, so if you're in the Windsor/Detroit or Toronto area, give me a post.


   Chris, you live in the wrong city.    I personally am very much used to
whole bulletin boards (e.g. cyberden.sf.ca.us) dedicated to the subject.
There are nation- and planet-wide circles of vampyres. Myriads of vampyres
swarm the places *I* spend time at.  Sounds like maybe you should take a
trip out our way some time. Or perhaps New Orleans, although I can't speak
from experience about that region at all.
  As for myself...I don't admit to anything anymore - hollywood has made a
mockary of vampyrism, so the deffinition of 'vampyre' has become so skewed...

                laszlo@netcom.com (San Francisco)
Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
From: cairnsj@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (John A Cairns)
Subject: Re: I dreamed a dream...or was it?
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:52:28 GMT


Chuang Tsu, a chinese philosopher once had a dream that he was a butterfly.
From that day on, he was never quite certain that he was not a butterfly,
dreaming that he was a man.

-- 
                      All of the agents will defect.
                    All of the resistors will sell out.  
                      CairnsJ@RinTinTin.Colorado.EDU
From: corleyj@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Jason D Corley )
Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
Subject: Re: how to?  (hypothetical response)
Date: 21 Jan 93 20:38:09 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson

In article <1993Jan21.070149.1@acad3.alaska.edu> fxmar@acad3.alaska.edu writes:
>Don't you find it odd they haven't stopped by for a game of chess?
>
>
>-mark

Naah.  Vampires can't play chess worth a darn.  They always overreach
themselves with a two-pronged attack, usually a Ruy Lopez followed by
fianchettoing the other bishop.  A single thrust up the kingside
is enough to impale them, mainly.

Vlad 1992


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Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
From: alee@quads.uchicago.edu (Nic Fit)
Subject: Re: Anne Rice movie--FINALLY!
Reply-To: alee@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 04:42:52 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.100839.3907@nic.csu.net> beth@nermal.SantaRosa.Edu (Beth Winegarner) writes:
>I read this morning that there really is going to be a movie made of
>"Interview With the Vampire."  The director is the guy who made "The Crying
>Game"... Geffen movies is producing it, and the script has been written by
>Rice herself...
>

No, you are wrong. Here is the correct information:

Script by: Michael Cristofer
Production by: Warner Bros. and Geffen
Planned date: hasn't been set yet, slated soon.

Also, another interesting note: Queensryche has offered to do the music
for the movie.


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From: kcantrel@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ken  Cantrell)
Subject: Vampyre Music
Summary: Still Wanting Vampyre Music
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 20:10:26 GMT


A couple of days ago I posted a request for music of/about vampyres, or
that reminded you of them.  And hardly anybody has sent me songs!  Come
on and help me out!  What I'm wanting to do is make a list of songs --
I'll post it to the net when it is done, and use it to answer queries for
songs in the future.  If you know of songs, please send me email and let
me know what they are.  

Thanks in advance, and again, please mail them to kec158s@vma.smsu.edu --
although I should still get them if you just reply.


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Better Known As 'Marius' to the Net.         **Don't Forget To Smile
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From: trish_r@mind.ORG (Trish Rucker)
Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
Subject: Re: Anne Rice movie--FINALLY!
Date: 26 Jan 93 19:25:11 GMT
Organization: Fortress Development HQ

chavis@thumper..bellcore.com (Dennis Chavis) writes:

> In article <1993Jan22.100839.3907@nic.csu.net> beth@nermal.SantaRosa.Edu (Bet
> >I read this morning that there really is going to be a movie made of
> >"Interview With the Vampire."  The director is the guy who made "The Crying
> >Game"... Geffen movies is producing it, and the script has been written by
> >Rice herself...
> >
> >I can't wait to see it.
> >
> >No actors have been signed on yet....
> 
> You would'nt happen to know the address to Geffen would you.
> Or who doing the casting?
> 
> 
> Any info would be appreciated
> 
> Dennis
> 

I'll be eager to learn more about the new Anne Rice movie, too.  I 
*LOVED* THE CRYING GAME ... did you see it?   Did you learn who will be 
in INTERVIEW ... ???    Who would be your ideal cast??    The Claudia 
role should be particularly difficult to cast, I would think.
From: adelle@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (adelle.s.Petrocco)
Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
Subject: Sweet Blood
Date: 27 Jan 93 03:18:34 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: AT&T

Has anyone read Sweet Blood by Pat Graversen?  It's published
by Zebra.  Really good.

Adelle
adelle@cbnewsh.att.com
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Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
From: mab7g@Virginia.EDU ("midori meech baer")
Subject: Re: how to?
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 01:13:18 GMT

simon, go **** yourself. 
meech.
hi cyrus!
  
Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
From: simon@athena.mit.edu (System PRIVILEGED Account)
Subject: Re: how to?
Keywords: Grow up.
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 08:26:48 GMT

     Hey, idiot!  You know, vampires are fabrications of overactive imaginations.
 There are no vampires, and there never will be any vampires.  This is just a
group of sexually frustrated people who have nothing better to do with their time
than to dream up people who bite them.  It's a load of bunk, and everybody knows
it.  Get a life, and get a clue.  If you want a bite on your neck, go to your
friendly neighbourhood whorehouse and ask for the Blue Plate Special.  Be
careful, though, you might get something worse than being undead.
     Better yet, bite yourself.

   Suck on this,

     Simon Says
Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
From: david.vaughan@rose.com (david vaughan)
Subject: Re: Fear and alt.vamp
Organization: Rose Media Inc, Toronto, Ontario.
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 08:34:13 GMT
X-Gated-By: Usenet <==> RoseMail Gateway (v1.70)


Date Entered: 01-28-93 03:28
flindholm@mta.ca writes

F >  Actually, I was wondering if anyone has read Sunglasses after 
F >  dark. A
F >  vampire novel set in, shall we say unique world. It reminds me a bit
F >  of th e game vampire in that demons and monsters seem to be hiding in
F >  every corner, along with pyrokinetics, sorcers, psionics and people who
F >  are just downright violent. A pretty good book.
F >
F >               Cyrus
F >
F >

An excellent novel.  I felt it was closer to Stellar Game's Nightlife 
however.  Nightlife is punk horror at its most nihilistic, with the 
characters playing vampyres (they use this spelling in the game), 
werewolves, demons, etc.  struggling to survive in the mean streets. 
The game has been around a couple years, but serious support in the 
form of supplements didn't start until more recently.  It's an 
interesting background, but the rules aren't as refined as in Vampire 
: The Masquerade.  I'd use Nightlife as a background for some other 
rule system rather than as a game in its own right.

Back to Nancy Collins.  Have you read the sequels?  I haven't yet, but 
would be interested in hearing if they're worth my time.  She's also 
the head writer for the Swamp Thing comic series right now.

David S. Vaughan
Hamilton, Ont., Canada
david.vaughan@rose.com
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From: v093n5bn@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (From the mind of Capt. Jack)
Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
Subject: Re: FTP
Date: 26 Jan 93 22:36:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1993Jan26.021811.6804@desire.wright.edu>, 
pgunterman@desire.wright.edu writes...

>>>Could someone please give me the FTP address for the Vampire Mailing
>>>list.  Thank you in advance.
>> 
>> Please post it here, I would be interested also.....
>> 
>> 		Dr Faustus
>> 
>Me three.  I didn't know there was one (newbie me!)

There is an FTP address but it almost sounds like your looking for the 
mailing list, if so the address for the mailing list and how to subscribe 
is as follows:

	Address: in%"listserv@math.ufl.edu"
	
	Ignore CC: and SUBJ: prompts

	In the first line of the text write:  Sub(scribe) vampire

That's it, the way to send mail to the list is to send to:

	in%"vampire@math.ufl.edu"

this mailing list discusses the White Wolf Storyteller system of role
playing games (specifically Vampire: the Masquerade), answers questions
about them, and is a forum for concepts, ideas, and issues relating to the
game. 

Hope this helps!

						-Capt. Jack