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JUNE 1996
Timothy Leary dies. Long live Timothy Leary.
LEARYLINK
JUNE 1996
Pepsi have paid for a routine satellite to be shaped as a pepsi can and float around space.
It's true, it's already happened, and it's depressing.
PEPSILINK
1996
Since the 70s it has been known that 12 meteorites in Actartica come from Mars. This month
saw the discovery of different patterns of deposits on one of them indicating biological action.
The traces are 3.6 billion years old, only 400 million years later than the earliest traces
of life on Earth, so life on Earth and Mars developed at roughly the same time.
MARSLINK
ONGOING 1996>
Shell sanctions genocide in the Niger Delta to protect its oil interests. People in Ogoniland
destroyed by Shell-supported military action and pollution from oil production. Nothing grows
in the 404 square miles of once-fecund Ogoniland, the night sky is lit by gas flares, hospitals
have high incidents of asthma, cancer and bronchitis. The UN's policy is to observe.
AMNESTYLINK
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