Ciarán Ryan notebook

He did the missiles in Constable’s Haywain - photo montage

The station existed until 23 March 2001, at which point it was deliberately de-orbited, breaking apart during atmospheric re-entry over the South Pacific Ocean.

So they never did attach a giant lead to it. Interesting 1999 idea though - becomes an electric motor - allows Mir to reposition itself.

Tether Applications in San Diego

http://www.tetherapplications.com/

More here:

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19991129/ai_n14270283

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir

Salk institute, La Jolla, California

zif-268 - helps us retain the memories of the day as we sleep?

Is it zif-268? It’s on the tip of my tongue… I’m sure it was zif something… or was it tif? I’m sure I left that piece of paper around here somewhere…

By Steve Connor, Science Editor
Monday, 22 November 1999

Researchers have dated the two inscriptions to between 1900BC and 1800BC, and have identified some of the symbols as precursors to letters in the modern alphabet, but have been unable to decipher their meanin.

However, Dr Darnell’s discovery, on the limestone rocks at the isolated Wadi-el-Hol, on the ancient road between Thebes and Abydos, has shown that the alphabet was invented in Egypt between two and three centuries earlier.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/alphabets-ancestor-discovered-on-desert-rock-738703.html

Admass. This is my name for the whole system of an increasing productivity, plus inflation, plus a rising standard of material living, plus high-pressure advertising and salesmanship, plus mass communications, plus cultural democracy and the creation of the mass mind, the mass man.

J. B Priestley, Journey Down a Rainbow, Heinemann-Cresset, London, 1955, p. 51.

On War and Society…
“My own personal view, for what it’s worth, is that we must stop thinking in terms of property and power and begin thinking in terms of community and creation. …We want a world that offers people not the dubious pleasures of power, but the maximum opportunities for creation. And, even already, in the middle of this war [World War Two], I can see that world shaping itself.
” …Property is that old-fashioned way of thinking of a country as a thing, and a collection of things on that thing, all owned by certain people and constituting property, instead of thinking of that country as the home of a living society, and considering the welfare of that society, the community itself as the first test.”
(Taken from his weekly wartime broadcast, Postscripts, 1940)

An inspector calls

The ending is always negotiable.

I don’t know what this means - but I wrote it down 10 years ago - then put the scrap of paper in a box - and now I’ve typed it out and put it on here and it’s in your brain.

Good luck!

“Likely entry points into buildings are broken or missing airbricks, gaps around
pipework, gaps under exterior and garage doors and faulty drains. Older properties
with cast iron soil vent pipes should have a wire balloon fitted to the top of the soil
stack. If your foul drain has an intercepted manhole you should ensure the
interceptor cap is in place.”

http://www.threerivers.gov.uk/GetResource.aspx?file=EnvHealth_PestFactsheet_Rats.pdf

More than 2,000 years ago Hippocrates wrote that a mother carrying a female baby had a pale face, while one carrying a male baby had a healthy skin tone.

Now a study published in The Lancet - 1999(?) has found that mothers of girls are more likely to suffer morning sickness than those carrying boys.

Dr Thomas Asking of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, who led the study, said that using sickness as a pre- birth gender indicator would be “not much better than tossing a coin”.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19991210/ai_n14261544

Blueprint for creating artificial life is discovered

Independent, The (London), Dec 10, 1999 by Steve Connor Science Editor

mycoplasma genitalium - 300-350 genes needed. To survive and replicate is their definition of life.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19991210/ai_n14263204