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War & TerrorismAl Qaida is US puppet
24 Posts • 7481 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
"CIA worked with Pakistan to create Taliban"
LONDON: The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) worked in tandem with Pakistan to create the "monster" that is today Afghanistan's... |
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Life & DeathWhat happens after death?
107 Posts • 90905 Views Philosophy Forum |
"Do they exist? We have never observed them nor have they ever affected us?"
But they have affeced us, with their gravitational pull if nothing else.
"So if all lifeforms die would... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85400 Views Science & Technology Forum |
9 November 2012
Melotte 15 in the Heart
Image Credit & Copyright: Stefano Cancelli, Paul Mortfield
Cosmic clouds seem to form fantastic shapes in the central regions of emission nebula IC 18... |
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216 Posts • 85400 Views Science & Technology Forum |
2 January 2013
The Einstein Cross Gravitational Lens
Image Credit & Copyright: J. Rhoads (Arizona State U.) et al., WIYN, AURA, NOAO, NSF
Most galaxies have a single nucleus -- does this gal... |
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Ethics & MoralityEthics: DARE YOU IGNORE IT?
17 Posts • 6093 Views Philosophy Forum |
I've been thinking about how to put ethics on a firm footing and it certainly is difficult. After much teeth-gnashing and vacillation, I have come to the not-very-radical conclusion that the good... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85400 Views Science & Technology Forum |
4 October 2012
NGC 7293: The Helix Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Martin Pugh
A mere seven hundred light years from Earth, in the constellation Aquarius, a sun-like star is dying. Its last... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85400 Views Science & Technology Forum |
7 March 2013
Thor's Helmet
Image Credit & Copyright: Martin Rusterholz (CXIELO Observatory)
This helmet-shaped cosmic cloud with wing-like appendages is popularly called Thor's Hel... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85400 Views Science & Technology Forum |
31 August 2012
Halo of the Cat's Eye
Image Credit & Copyright: Don Goldman
The Cat's Eye Nebula (NGC 6543) is one of the best known planetary nebulae in the sky. Its haunting symme... |
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ChristianityChristian Q&A
0 Posts • 3762 Views Religion Forum |
The attributes of the Way which form a favorable circumstance or being were exemplified in the Christ. But these attributes can be & are found in primitive / native societies or cultures. Jesus ga... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85400 Views Science & Technology Forum |
2 February 2013
Herschel's Andromeda
Image Credit: ESA/Herschel/PACS & SPIRE Consortium, O. Krause, HSC, H. Linz
This infrared view from the Herschel Space Observatory explores the Andr... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85400 Views Science & Technology Forum |
21 December 2012
Orion over El Castillo
Image Credit & Copyright: Stéphane Guisard (Los Cielos de America, TWAN)
Credits: D. Flores and B. Pichardo (Inst. Astronomia UNAM), P. Sánchez... |
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Religion & HumanityReligion has history
55 Posts • 13487 Views Religion Forum |
To accomplish peace we need to live by two tenets:
1. Live and let live, and
2. Turn the other cheek (and I don't mean 'moon' them).
Peace isn't Christian or Jewish or Muslim... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85400 Views Science & Technology Forum |
29 October 2012
The Red Spider Planetary Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Carlos Milovic, Hubble Legacy Archive, NASA
Oh what a tangled web a planetary nebula can weave. The Red Spider Plane... |
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Society & Sociologyafrican americans
10 Posts • 5228 Views Psychology Forum |
Cynic-Al I agree with the first part of your statement about colonization--"whites&quo t; as advanced and superior race--I beleive that is how it was first viewed.
As for the Thread-- I think... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85400 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 ReligionIntellagentdesign
82 Posts • 19384 Views Religion Forum |
Okcitykid: Its not only the 'what' but it is also the 'how' which is well understood and explained in evolutionary science, especially in genetics. The Blueprint of Life is DNA. Li... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85400 Views Science & Technology Forum |
29 September 2012
NGC 7023: The Iris Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Tony Hallas
Like delicate cosmic petals, these clouds of interstellar dust and gas have blossomed 1,300 light-years away... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85400 Views Science & Technology Forum |
13 March 2013
NGC 6751: The Glowing Eye Nebula
Image Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive, ESA, NASA; Processing - Donald Waid
Planetary nebulae can look simple, round, and planet-like in small telesco... |
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War & TerrorismIraq = Terrorism?
0 Posts • 3769 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
Come now, Decius. While I don't think the article sheds a shining beacon of light on the Al Qaeda - Iraq link, it does say a bit more than "a possible Al-Qaeda member was invited to some Ira... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85400 Views Science & Technology Forum |
12 October 2012
Pan-STARRS and Nebulae
Image Credit: PS1 Science Consortium
Processing: Nigel Metcalfe, Peter Draper (Durham Univ.), Gene Magnier (IfA Hawaii)
A single field from the world'... |
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AstronomyMilky Way Galaxy
1 Posts • 3503 Views Science & Technology Forum |
The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy - this means that it's a spiral galaxy that has a central bar shaped structure that is made up of stars. Spiral galaxies have a spiral structure that exten... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85400 Views Science & Technology Forum |
24 November 2012
NGC 1365: Majestic Spiral with Supernova
Image Credit & Copyright: Martin Pugh
Barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365 is truly a majestic island universe some 200,000 light-years acr... |
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Physics & CosmologyWhat does it mean there are Four Dimensions?
57 Posts • 27062 Views Science & Technology Forum |
http://www.captaincynic.com/th read/67672/lunacy-science.htm First of the filling order of shell theory requires a central formation to exist a filled 1S orbital is the point upon which atoms spin, all... |
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ChristianityMisrepresentation
81 Posts • 21503 Views Religion Forum |
okcitykid said:I don't understand this. If I had never heard the story of Jesus I would believe in eternal life in the hereafter. Even knowing about Jesus, even if I had no evidence I would still beli... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85400 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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