Subj : Re: PLANET-DISSOLVING DUST CLOUD IS HEADED TOWARD EARTH!
To   : alt.startrek,alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise,alt.tv.star-trek.next-gen
From : Dave Fain
Date : Mon Sep 19 2005 15:52:59

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise

I have a dust buster made from one of those doomsday machines from Star Trek 
TOS.  That'll fix it.


"Elvis Gump" <elvisgump.NO@SPAM.fastmail.us> wrote in message 
news:BF547F8F.7D7A8%elvisgump.NO@SPAM.fastmail.us...
> in article VdEXe.5198$6e1.2657@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com, Gerald Meazell 
> at
> gmeazell@swbell.net wrote on 9/19/05 2:22 PM:
>
>> Elvis Gump wrote:
>
>>> PLANET-DISSOLVING DUST CLOUD IS HEADED TOWARD EARTH!
>
>> Sounds like someone caught ST:TMP on cable last week.  Look Out!  Here
>> comes V'Ger!
>>
>> That, or we'd better start building a device we can shoot into space
>> that will take hold of some alien mind and give it a lifetime of
>> memories in about 25 minutes.
>>
>> --
>> Gerald
>
> What I really liked about and was slightly disturbed about this was that
> Yahoo News (how ironic huh?) is picking up Weekly World News stories like
> this one and putting them on the web. At first glace because it's Yahoo 
> News
> might not immediately register the small "WWN" thing as the source of the
> story, rather expecting the stuff that Yahoo picks up to be either Reuters
> or some other source that got say snookered by an Onion article.
>
> But now Yahoo is living up to its name by just printing crazy shit from 
> WWN
> and making it look like the rest of the real news. And things like this 
> with
> junk science details that might mostly go over the heads of the general
> public probably makes these things scary to the general public.
>
> If some real dire imminent disaster from space were discovered I wonder if
> we could get anyone to take it seriously?
>
> After having seen just the Katrina devastation on the Mississippi Gulf 
> Coast
> first hand even understanding a threat, knowing that it's coming and 
> trying
> to prepare for it doesn't necessarily make us prepared as we've seen 
> nonstop
> for three weeks on TV.
> -- 
> "Nuclear war would really set back cable."
> -- Ted Turner
>

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