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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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21 February 2013
Gravitational Tractor
Illustration Credit & Copyright: Dan Durda (FIAAA, B612 Foundation)
How would you change the course of an Earth-threatening asteroid? One possibility -... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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17 February 2013
Asteroid 2012 DA14 Passes the Earth
Video Credit & Copyright: Daniel López (El Cielo de Canarias)
There it goes. That small spot moving in front of background stars in th... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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19 September 2012
Leaving Vesta
Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, UCLA, MPS, DLR, IDA
Next stop: Ceres. Last week the robotic Dawn spacecraft ended its year-long mission to asteroid Vesta, becomi... |
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AstronomyJupiter Hit By Comet/Asteroid
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George Hall, an amateur astrophotographer was observing and recording Jupiter last Monday (10 Sept. 2012) and he happened to capture what appears to be something colliding against Jupiter. Apparently... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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10 February 2013
Asteroids in the Distance
Image Credit: R. Evans & K. Stapelfeldt (JPL), WFPC2, HST, NASA
Rocks from space hit Earth every day. The larger the rock, though, the less often E... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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28 October 2012
Doomed Moon of Mars
Image Credit: HiRISE, MRO, LPL (U. Arizona), NASA
This moon is doomed. Mars, the red planet named for the Roman god of war, has two tiny moons, Phobos and Dei... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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6 November 2012
Methone: Smooth Egg Moon of Saturn
Image Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, ISS, JPL, ESA, NASA
Why is this moon shaped like a smooth egg? The robotic Cassini spacecraft completed the... |
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Physics & CosmologyComparison: Universe>Cell
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FTU.
It's mostly a cold void with intention to destroy life.
We just lucked out for a few thousand years.
Don't worry, the universe will win eventually and send a huge asteroid to E... |
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Are Videogames Good or Bad?
16 Posts • 10907 Views
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Video games are a lot of fun and like the otrigional poster I have broably butchered the eath's population if you could put all those kills into 1 tally not to mention destroyed every rock in the... |
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Life & DeathLIFE AFTER DEATH QUESTION
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Thanks for your comments. I don't believe in reincarnation cos what happens if the world is destroyed by an asteroid tomorrow. Not much to come back to huh!.
Evolution and creation can go hand i... |
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Do we really exist?
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Billions of years ago, the atoms you are made up of were nothing more than space dist, remainants of a star long dead.
Then they met up with the other atoms that became our sun and the planets surr... |
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HistoryNoah's Ark
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Decius thats a great read but have you ever heard of planet X or Nibiru or Mu-sho-sho-no-no.
now this is ,as believed by some scientist, is a brown dwarf star, which is in binary with our sun. It c... |
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AstronomySuns Boiling, and Black Holes Freezing…
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Wonder if phenomenon of black holes is more related to the aspects of the tool (light) than what is being observed?
Could it be that our own existence, the matter & fields manifest the effect of... |
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JokesYo' Mama Jokes?
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Jokes & Games |
AHoy every1
Your mamma is so fat when she stepped onto the scales it said to be continued.
your mamma is so fat she could be the eighth continent.
Your mamma is so fat....
the only thing t... |
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ChristianitySERIOUS BIBLE QUESTIONS
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My stepdaughter is really into dinosaurs. And she has all the dinosaur movies. According to the movies, Antarctica remained dark for 6 months and light for six months just like it does now. But it onl... |
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Consciousnesswhat is free will?
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Free will does exist. In fact it is the exercise of free will by humans and other animals that actually change the course of the unfolding of the universe. Perhaps not its eventual outcome which is mo... |
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To have children or not to have children..that is
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I decided when I was quite young I didn't want children either, but long about 30 my heart opened up and I decided to have one. He's 16 now and the joy of the whole family... he's turne... |
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ChristianityCellphone VS Bible
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Sounds like the regurgitation well said from a pasture, however...
Religion requires people to be ignorant and faithful to an imaginary being. If you think I'm Joking, look at history. Back in the da... |
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Consciousnesswhat is free will?
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Joemailman, I must say that you are arguing my point. Given your asteroid scenario, you assume two possibilities: 1) mankind interferes or 2) mankind does not. If there were not two possibilities, the... |
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Consciousnesswhat is free will?
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thx1137, It seems as though you are trying to deal with absolutes. Destiny determination and free will are all tied to the religious notion of gods, devils and other forms of nothingness. The human be... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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15 December 2012
When Gemini Sends Stars to Paranal
Image Credit & Copyright: Stéphane Guisard (Los Cielos de America), TWAN
From a radiant point in the constellation of the Twins, the an... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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1 March 2013
Colors of Mercury
Image Credit: NASA / JHU Applied Physics Lab / Carnegie Inst. Washington
The colors of the solar system's innermost planet are enhanced in this tantalizing vi... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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18 February 2013
The Great Russian Meteor of 2013
Video Credit & Copyright: RussiaToday
What in heaven's blazes is that? Thousands of people living near the Ural Mountains in Russia saw... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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18 January 2013
Stickney Crater
Image Credit: HiRISE, MRO, LPL (U. Arizona), NASA
Stickney Crater, the largest crater on the martian moon Phobos, is named for Chloe Angeline Stickney Hall, mathe... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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27 November 2012
Bright Jupiter in Taurus
Image Credit & Copyright: Tunç Tezel (TWAN)
That bright star you've recently noticed rising just after sunset isn't a star at all. It&#... |
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