Info-ParaNet Newsletters, Number 165 Thursday, March 1st 1990 Today's Topics: ParaNet Book Service Re: Looking For A Book ETs and the atmosphere "LA" vs. "La." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: paranet!f428.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG!Michael.Corbin Subject: ParaNet Book Service Date: 28 Feb 90 23:09:00 GMT To All: ParaNet now has a complete book service carrying many hard-to-get and rare UFO books. New and used. Also, books on other subjects as well -- Occult, New Age, Tesla, etc. For a listing contact ParaNet Alpha one of the following ways: FIDO NETMAIL - 104/422 DATA - 303-232-6115 VOICE - 303-232-8303 USENET - mcorbin@scicom.alphacdc.com or in writing: ParaNet Michael Corbin P.O. Box 928 Wheatridge, CO 80034-0928 Mike -- Michael Corbin - via FidoNet node 1:104/422 UUCP: !scicom!paranet!User_Name INTERNET: Michael.Corbin@f428.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: paranet!f1.n301.z1.FIDONET.ORG!Clark.Matthews Subject: Re: Looking For A Book Date: 1 Mar 90 04:02:17 GMT Hi Gene. Actually (I did a little homework after posting the first message on the lights in the crater Aristarchus) there were two "waves" of lights and other phenomena in and around the crater. The first wave was spotted by a Russian astronomer and he actually published a paper wondering if he was observing volcanic activity on the moon. This theory (and his observations -- which were shared by other astronomers & amateur stargazers) was laughed out of currency by the peer community, because everyone knows there are no volcanos on the moon and no UFOs either, right? The subsequent wave of sightings lasted for some time and seemed to occur at regular intervals from the same general area of the crater Aristarchus. It was about one year after the Russian's paper was published. The lights were red, quite bright, and intermittent. A Ham radio setup was employed by astronomers around the world to spot them and observe them. There was no ridicule of the second sightings. Best, Clark -- Clark Matthews - via FidoNet node 1:104/422 UUCP: !scicom!paranet!User_Name INTERNET: Clark.Matthews@f1.n301.z1.FIDONET.ORG -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Gary Knight Subject: ETs and the atmosphere Date: 1 Mar 90 21:12:09 GMT UFO 5. Can anyone provide me with information, or reference to articles or other materials, dealing with the issue of atmospheres and ETs? As we all know, natural selection results in living things being adapted to their environment -- we humans are adapted to Earth's atmosphere because we evolved in it. If the constituents of our atmosphere were to change dramatically, we'd be dead ducks (both individually and as a species). Similarly, to survive outside Earth's atmosphere, we have to take our atmosphere with us. With one exception (an alleged statement by General Marshall in Good's ABOVE TOP SECRET), in all the material I've read about ET visits to earth, and abductions of humans into ET vehicles, I've never seen the atmosphere problem addressed. The probability of an ET evolving in an atmosphere identical to that of Earth approaches zero. So how come the ETs and the humans can share the same space in abductions with no ill- effects? How come the ETs can walk around on Earth (e.g., alleged CE-III events) without special breathing apparatus? Can anyone talk on this point? Thanks, Gary ------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Will Martin Subject: "LA" vs. "La." Date: 1 Mar 90 11:10:38 GMT I sent this in over a week ago, but never saw it appear in the Paranet Digest; therefore I am resubmitting a copy. Sorry if this is a duplicate but I had no evidence that it ever got to the group. - Will -+(Will, if you look at the Subject line, you will see why message was never delivered to the newsgroup. We use a shellscript to input the email into ParaNet and it coughed both times on you letter and anyone that used this Subject line. I found this message because I went looking and it was in 'general'. The script does this if it can't determine which newsgroups it's for. Sorry...Cyro)-+ ----- Forwarded message # 1: Date: Tue, 20 Feb 90 8:29:30 CST >From: Will Martin To: infopara%scicom.alphacdc.com@uunet.uu.net Subject: "LA" vs. "La." I stand by my assertion that "LA" would not be used as an abbreviation for "Louisiana" in the '40's. The supposed counterexamples from dictionaries and other contemporary sources do NOT disprove this. They all explicitly stated the abbreviation "La." stood for Louisiana. Note that this is "La." with a lower-case "a" and a trailing period. The original quote included "LA" with both letters capitalized. The two-letter, no-period, all-capital state abbreviations were from a much later period, as I stated originally. Actually, this probably was some internal FBI reference that only a contemporary insider could really explain. I very much doubt that we will be able to puzzle it out from reference books and the like. Will Martin ----- End of forwarded messages ********To have your comments in the next issue, send electronic mail to******** 'infopara' at the following address: UUCP {ncar,isis,boulder}!scicom!infopara DOMAIN infopara@scicom.alphacdc.com ADMIN Address infopara-request@scicom.alphacdc.com {ncar,isis,boulder}!scicom!infopara-request ******************The**End**of**Info-ParaNet**Newsletter************************