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The God paradox
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What needs to be looked at here is religions throught the planet as a whole history. There were the polythestic beliefs of Greeks that were copied by the Romans (Zeus, Jupiter) Leading to the creation... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85400 Views Science & Technology Forum |
25 December 2012
Yosemite Winter Night
Image Credit & Copyright: Wally Pacholka (AstroPics.com, TWAN)
In this evocative night skyscape a starry band of the Milky Way climbs over Yosemite Val... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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20 November 2012
A Halo Around the Moon
Image Credit & Copyright: Anthony Ayiomamitis (TWAN)
Have you ever seen a halo around the Moon? This fairly common sight occurs when high thin clouds... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85400 Views Science & Technology Forum |
30 September 2012
A Galaxy Collision in NGC 6745
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration
Acknowledgment: Roger Lynds (KPNO/NOAO) et al.
Gala... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85400 Views Science & Technology Forum |
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
216 Posts • 85400 Views Science & Technology Forum |
28 February 2013
Snow Moon for a Snowy Planet
Image Credit & Copyright: Göran Strand
The alarmingly tall inhabitants of this small, snowy planet cast long shadows in bright moonlight. Of... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85400 Views Science & Technology Forum |
19 March 2013
GRAIL Maps the Moon's Gravity
Image Credit & Copyright: NASA, JPL-Caltech, MIT, GSFC
How did the Moon form? To help find out, NASA launched the twin Gravity Recovery and I... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85400 Views Science & Technology Forum |
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
216 Posts • 85400 Views Science & Technology Forum |
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
216 Posts • 85400 Views Science & Technology Forum |
14 February 2013
Solar System Portrait
Image Credit: Voyager Project, NASA
On another Valentine's Day (February 14, 1990), cruising four billion miles from the Sun, the Voyager 1 spacecraft... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85400 Views Science & Technology Forum |
8 December 2012
Baku Moonrise
Image Credit & Copyright: Tunç Tezel (TWAN)
A Full Moon rises in this waterfront scene. Its colorful, watery reflection is joined by harbor lights and a wind... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85400 Views Science & Technology Forum |
22 November 2012
Night of the Long Leonid
Image Credit & Copyright: Stéphane Vetter (Nuits sacrees)
A cosmic grain of sand left the long and colorful trail across this all-sky view. Its g... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85400 Views Science & Technology Forum |
12 February 2013
Reflected Aurora Over Alaska
Image Credit & Copyright: Todd Salat (AuroraHunter); Sky Annotation: Judy Schmidt
Some auroras can only be seen with a camera. They are called s... |
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TechnologyAnti-Matter Engines
7 Posts • 4810 Views Science & Technology Forum |
http://www.nasa.gov/exploratio n/home/antimatter_spaceship.ht ml
Here is a nice little article, from nasa. About 3% of the total moss is converted directly to energy, which is tons.
Containment is... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85400 Views Science & Technology Forum |
1 October 2012
Introducing Comet ISON
Image Credit & Copyright: Ligustri Rolando
Could this dim spot brighten into one of the brightest comets ever? It's possible. Alternatively, the co... |
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Religion & HumanityReligion has history
55 Posts • 13487 Views Religion Forum |
World History
Perspectives of the Past
Chapter 7 Section 3
Christianity spreads through the Empire
By the time of Augustus, Rome's traditional gods – Jupiter, Juno, Mars, etc. -- had no stro... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85400 Views Science & Technology Forum |
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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Astrology, Myth Or Magic?
6 Posts • 2731 Views Talk Talk |
Astrology
As the Earth is only one of a few planets circling the sun we can easily follow the movement of the others. Today we can see much further with our new telescopes but even in ancient times... |
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7 x 7 = 49
4 Posts • 2824 Views Science & Technology Forum |
I too have seen the number seven follows me around everywhere I go... I've taken a numerology quiz and this is what I got:
Your Life Path Number is 7
Your Life Path Number represents the path... |
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Physics & CosmologyWhat does it mean there are Four Dimensions?
57 Posts • 27062 Views Science & Technology Forum |
E=mc^2 is not really about space. The theory of relativity has several more or less disjoint consequences on space, time, and matter. It all stems from the seemingly rediculous fact that the speed of... |
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AstronomyExcerp: The Solar System
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The solar system began as a cloud of dust and gas. The cloud began to spin and contract. It contracted into a disc with the sun at the center. Planets formed from the disk. Gravity caused rocky, terre... |
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Physics & CosmologyQuantum Physics Double Slit Experiment
50 Posts • 16897 Views Science & Technology Forum |
I've been reading into the philosophy of virtual reality ( the matrix and so on) by Slavoj Zizek and there's a passage that really got stuck in my head, thought i might share it cause it kin... |
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Physics & CosmologyReality in the melting pot
11 Posts • 10525 Views Science & Technology Forum |
Our universe is just one of many, linked together by the astounding phenomena of the quantum world.
Heres a doco from BBC: Parallel Universes
Everything you're about to read here seems im... |
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Dawn's Greeting
9 Posts • 3684 Views Stories & Poetry Forum |
CHAPTER SEVEN
Angela Kemp was preparing the dinner, daydreaming about her daughter and listening to the news on the radio. There was a debate between leading astronomers and scientists about the l... |
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What Borders?
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U.S. flag stolen, Mexican banner raised in its place – residents angry
TCPalm.com / KIT BRADSHAW | April 2 2006
It took a few days, but the flag of the United States of America once again is... |
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