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nexus © NEeEws— Tunnel Found Under Sphinx A team of Japanese scientists from Waseda University have confirmed the existence of an underground chamber six feet east of the Sphinx. They used an electro-magnetic scanner to beam sound waves into the ground last year; now computer analysis of the data in Tokyo has confirmed their discovery and suggests that the chamber contains stone objects. Around the World im 80 Minutes A revolutionary space shuttle has been designed to fly from Sydney to London in 45 minutes by sucking up its fuel from the atmosphere. “We are in danger of losing another typical British and brilliantly simple aerospace concept to foreign interests unless we are extremely careful,” said Prince Charles, criticising the British Government for failing to back the revo- lutionary Horizontal TakeoffandLand- __ works, dealing with the US if necessary. The Waseda University team also | ing (Hotol) spacecraft. Japan and West Germany are also in- discovered two cavities in the Great Hotol takes off and lands like an terested. Pyramid behind what is ‘called the | airplane and can fly from Sydney to The engine works like a ramjet, Queen’s Chamber and were the first to confirm the existence of a recently dis- covered wooden funerary boat in a pitin the same area. However, they had a mysterious equipment failure when testing inside two chambers discovered by a French team in 1986 (See NEXUS #1), which 2 S| made a computer readout impossible. Oil from Plastic oo ~—*b_ a The Sphinx probably represents | A West German refinery is to turn THIS tHE eee HIPING King Khefren as the Great Pyramid is | mounds of worthless plastic into crude regarded as the tomb of his father, King | oil this year with a pilot recycling plant. & ~ Khufu, whose funerary treasure has Union Rheinische Braunkohlen YP never been found. Kraftstoff AG (URBK), a refinery - via American Dowser | owned by West Germany’s largest elec- a a tricity producer, says it can turn 80% of uo @ : London -or space stations-bygoinginto using atmospheric oxygen for most of its Earth orbit. Due togovernmentvaccila- fuel, starts from a standstill and also tion Mr Alan Bond, designer of Hotol’s _ switches to work as a rocket in space. engines, is prepared torisk jail by ignor- Hotol is competing for the European ing British security classifications on space market with the French shuttle his patents to tell people how hisengine Hermes, Columbus and Ariane V. e e ey all plastic waste into synthetic crude oil Marine Life through a “clean process”. ‘CAE PMO “It does not produce any harmful rv o fumes nor create new problems for the Su ey Shock W environment,” said URBK chemist Mr | Spotters aboard the First Fleet re-en- y& Dagmar Mertens-Gottselig. Recycled | actment are compiling a survey on fo oil would cost about $US30 a barrel and | marine life to compare with that made the system won't be cost effective with | on the original 27,000 km voyage. Pre- current low crude oil prices. liminary findings indicate an alarming However, next decade when the | fall in numbers of dolphins and whales e system is fully operational oil prices will | since the first survey and estimates say Cosmic Flu rise as wells in parts of the world dryup | that less than a quarter of the sea life and major producers cut output. present 200 years ago still remains. A Chinese engineer who has spent 20 URBK has an exclusive worldwide The ships’ only close encounter with years investigating the effects of cosmic | 20-year patent. Even if oil prices don’t | a whale was with a dead sperm whale rays has demonstrated that each of the | rise enough next decade, the company | encountered by the Bounty. five major Chinese outbreaks of influ- | expects to make money from plastic Some species of birds, including port enza in the last 50 years coincided with | waste storage; West German authori- | egmont hens, some gulls and gannets peak periods of cosmic rays reaching | ties charge ratepayers about $A155 a | appear tobe missing, but most seabirds armas DAAWING BT ROBIN ROTHMAN - of Interest.e Earth. tonne for disposal and most is stored. have survived well. Yu Zhendong of Hubei Province cor- The pilot plant has an annual ca- Jonathan King, sailing with the re- rectly predicted that a flu epidemic | pacity of 100,000 tonnes. West Ger- | enactment, said, “I believe as much as would sweep China in early 1984. many imports almost all its crude oil - | 75% of marine life could have disap- Chinese People’s Daily | 67 million tonnes in 1986 alone. peared in the past 200 years.” - Reuters 6 NEXUS New Times Four - Autumn 1988 Tunnel Under Sphinx Cosmic Flu Oil from Plastic Marine Life