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216 Posts • 85060 Views Science & Technology Forum |
23 November 2012
The Pipe Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Yuri Beletsky (Las Campanas Observatory, Carnegie Institution for Science)
East of Antares, dark markings sprawl through crowded st... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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13 January 2013
NGC 602 and Beyond
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) - ESA/Hubble Collaboration
Near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite gal... |
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Physics & CosmologyReality in the melting pot
11 Posts • 10501 Views Science & Technology Forum |
The Multiverse theory for the universe describes the continuous formation of universes through the collapse of giant stars and the formation of black holes. With each of these black holes there is a n... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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19 January 2013
Barnard Stares at NGC 2170
Image Credit & Copyright: John Davis
A gaze across a cosmic skyscape, this telescopic mosaic reveals the continuous beauty of things that are. The... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85060 Views Science & Technology Forum |
20 March 2013
M42: Inside the Orion Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Reinhold Wittich
The Great Nebula in Orion, an immense, nearby starbirth region, is probably the most famous of all astro... |
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Alternative BeliefsGod = The Universe
72 Posts • 21725 Views Religion Forum |
When I was very young, my forth grade teacher taught us that there was the Galaxy. That was it. Later, we accepted that there were multiple galaxies. Our knowledge expanded. Now, no one questions the... |
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FuturologyThe end of the universe
40 Posts • 18323 Views Philosophy Forum |
Breezing through this interesting thread, I would like to point out some more recent scientific findings, theories and musings.
Some have spoken about the principle of the conversation of matter an... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85060 Views Science & Technology Forum |
31 January 2013
NGC 4372 and the Dark Doodad
Image Credit & Copyright: Ivan Eder
The delightful Dark Doodad Nebula drifts through southern skies, a tantalizing target for binoculars in the c... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85060 Views Science & Technology Forum |
3 October 2012
Goat Aurora Over Greenland
Image Credit & Copyright: Juan Carlos Casado (TWAN)
Sometimes it's hard to believe what you see in the sky. During the Shelios Expedition to Gr... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85060 Views Science & Technology Forum |
12 December 2012
Milky Way Over Quiver Tree Forest
Image Credit & Copyright: Florian Breuer
In front of a famous background of stars and galaxies lies some of Earth's more unusual trees... |
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Science vs ReligionIsn't Religion Just a Science or History?
72 Posts • 16987 Views Religion Forum |
Dont forget that in the heyday of religions before science was really founded by the royal society, if you did sin or do wrong, you would be burnt in hell, or suffer an eternity of pain or torture, be... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85060 Views Science & Technology Forum |
3 January 2013
Open Star Clusters M35 and NGC 2158
Image Credit & Copyright: Dieter Willasch (Astro-Cabinet)
Open clusters of stars can be near or far, young or old, and diffuse or compact.... |
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AliensAlien Blood
5 Posts • 3406 Views Science & Technology Forum |
it would be impossible to determine without a sample because look at our own earth. we have bacteria that don't even have blood so aliens might not even have blood. and there has been over 400 pl... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85060 Views Science & Technology Forum |
2 December 2012
The Gegenschein Over Chile
Image Credit & Copyright: Yuri Beletsky (ESO)
Is the night sky darkest in the direction opposite the Sun? No. In fact, a rarely discernable faint g... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85060 Views Science & Technology Forum |
19 October 2012
Merging NGC 2623
Image Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive, ESA, NASA; Processing - Martin Pugh
NGC 2623 is really two galaxies that are becoming one. Seen to be in the final stages of... |
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God in ReligionIf there's a god, why is there evil?
222 Posts • 57204 Views Religion Forum |
Man (the generic term) struggles to define god (or God) within the limits of our knowledge and experience. Centuries ago man feared God as a supreme power and judge, who meted out rewards (good) and p... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85060 Views Science & Technology Forum |
30 October 2012
Planetary Nebula PK 164 +31.1
Image Credit & Copyright: Descubre Foundation, CAHA, OAUV, DSA, Vicent Peris (OAUV), Jack Harvey (SSRO), PixInsight
Is this what will become of... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85060 Views Science & Technology Forum |
8 September 2012
Cosmic Rays at Voyager 1
Credit: Voyager Project, NASA
Launched on a grand tour of the outer planets in 1977, by good fortune the twin Voyager spacecraft were also headed in the... |
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Physics & CosmologyComparison: Universe>Cell
5 Posts • 3147 Views Science & Technology Forum |
Yes thanks for the good clip dawn! I actually saw 30 seconds of it and decided to watch the entire movie instead, as well as a few other interesting imax vids that were there.
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PoetryDutch Harbor, Alaska
1 Posts • 2334 Views Stories & Poetry Forum |
DUTCH HARBOR, ALASKA
A poem by Wolf Larsen
You watch as thousands of ceiling people begin cutting your body up into dinner pieces (like the thunderstorm inside your living room)? So you write disi... |
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Having Kids
49 Posts • 20345 Views Philosophy Forum |
I suppose, as the father of 11 (youngest will be 1-yr on 6/9), I should stay out of this discussion, but I can't. God didn't create a field full of flowers so that every single blossom would... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85060 Views Science & Technology Forum |
30 November 2012
Clouds in Cygnus
Credit & Copyright: Image Data - Bob Caton, Al Howard, Eric Zbinden, Rogelio Bernal Andreo;
Processing - Rogelio Bernal Andreo
Cosmic clouds of gas and dus... |
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GodQuestioning God's Existence
98 Posts • 24309 Views Philosophy Forum |
Is there a god?
What i exspect is yes...
why? Well I know for a fact there are Spirits , playing the Quija board and living in a haunted house proves that fact to me personally. what that means... |
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Religion & HumanityHow come the transition for polytheism to monotheism?
16 Posts • 10027 Views Religion Forum |
DazedNconfused. I think that when LittleJohn and I spoke of primitive man, we are not thinking the Aztecs. I was thinking more like 20,000 or 30,000 years earlier. Bare foot hunter. The Aztecs were a... |
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Physics & CosmologyLunacy & Science
17 Posts • 7362 Views Science & Technology Forum |
In dazes of olde when knights were bold & even those who raised themselves to lofty thoughts believed earth to be the center axis upon the heavens did roll. So could an explanation be for the sun,... |
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