oddly enough...

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(Writing, rather than phoning, is probably the best way to contact extraterrestrials, American scientists said Wednesday.

 

So instead of phoning home, it could have been more energy efficient if ET had inscribed information and physically sent it, because radio waves disperse as they travel.

 

"Think of a flashlight beam," said Professor Christopher Rose, of Rutgers University in New Jersey who reported his finding in the science journal Nature.

 

"Its intensity decreases as it gets farther from its source. The same is true of the beam of a laser pointer, though the distance is much longer," he added in a statement.

 

Rose and his colleague, physicist Gregory Wright, were pondering how to get the most bits per second over a wireless channel when they concluded that the detectability of a signal diminishes with distance. )

 

duh...and these guys are university staff???????????????????????

 

(A Bali bomber serving a life term for his role in the nightclub blasts that killed 202 people was treated by police to an outing at an up-market shopping mall in the Indonesian capital, police admitted Thursday. )

 

wonder where they'd have taken him if he was innocent.........

 

 

(How Would You Like to Meet This Guy?

 

BERLIN (Reuters) - A man caught having sex with a blow-up doll in a busy public shopping arcade had to be physically parted from his rubber lover and escorted away, said police in Stuttgart Wednesday.

 

The 38-year-old man was caught with his trousers down early Monday evening after alarmed witnesses alerted the police.

 

"It was real, he was caught in mid-action with the doll," said a press spokeswoman. Police said that they had considerable difficulty separating the drunken man from his partner)

 

NO comment,this speaks for itself LOL

 

 

(Store Clerk Accepts Fake $200 Bill, Makes Change

PHILADELPHIA - At first glance it looked like the real thing, so store clerk Kathryn Miller was happy to accept the $200 bill as payment -- and even make change.

The bill did carry a picture of President Bush , but he is not one of the presidents who appear on the U.S. currency and in any case there is no such thing as a $200 bill.

That did not stop Miller, who works at Fashion Bug, a women's clothing store in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, from taking the bill in payment for an item costing $99.

She also gave change to Deborah Trautwine, a resident of nearby Jeanette, said Jeanne Martin, a spokeswoman for the state police in Greensburg.

 

"Anyone with any bit of knowledge should have recognized that it wasn't the real thing," Martin said.

 

yes,the cashier is on leave from her rocket scientist job over at rutgers university.......

 

Trautwine, who was located by police on the basis of information from the clothing store, was charged on Wednesday with forgery, theft by deception, and receiving stolen property.

She didn't know whether Miller still works at Fashion Bug. )

 

she returned to her scientist job yesterday...

 

(Curvy Shop Mannequins Must Cover Up

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's moral crackdown has widened its focus from stylishly dressed women to curvaceous shop-window mannequins, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Morals police have banned shopkeepers from showing unveiled dummies and lingerie in their windows.

 

GASP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And men were now forbidden to sell women's underwear, Sharq newspaper said.

 

wonder if anything been said bout men wearing womens garments.....or if its ok for them to continue the sex with the sheep.....

 

"Using unveiled mannequins that reveal their bodies' curves is banned," it quoted part of a new police manual as saying.

Shops breaking the rules risk closure and losing their trading licenses.

 

at very least...wonder what happens to repeat offenders..

 

Lawmakers are debating an Iranian dress code, advocated last month by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who called for a national costume that avoided European models.

"A national costume will be designed for men and women based on Islamic and national criteria," conservative deputy Fatemeh Alia was quoted as saying in the Siyasat-e Rouz daily.)

 

yes they need to find jobs for the taliban dressmakers......