Just some thoughts about Kepler and the planets its finding (and not finding.)
Keep in mind that Kepler is ONLY "looking" at a part of the sky that's about the size of your fist at arms length in the Cygnus constellation.
Kepler can only "see" the planets in the galaxies that are edge on to the telescope. That's something like 1 in 8.
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To the best of my knowledge...the security hole has been there since vs5.
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From Chandra...
When scientist speak of superfluid...I suppose liquid helium?
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That's classic Rick.
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That's great! They should have had Bill Cosby come out in full Mayan attire.
Happy New Baktun!
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Originally Planet X (Nibiru) was to collide with Earth May 2003.
That was from Nancy Lieder (1995) via brain implant from aliens.
I personally would have had it removed and transplanted into my cat...just to mess with em.
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In a strange twist of fate (or fact)...we can put off the doomsday for another 19 years.
While reviewing several different versions of the doomsday prophesy I have discovered an anomaly...a glitch in the glyph (snicker).
Many of the translations are all derived from an original. Much like the Gospels are derived from X...but that's for another day. Did anyone think to double check the or
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Fasinating...
Rick...(this is a twitter tool...but could be of value to you.
It takes a long like: sp.1249.beta.photobucket.com/user/microscopeman/media/diatomredeyespotcameraglitchmakesitbiggerthanitappears-Copy.jpg.html?sort=6&o=0
and gives you:
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Cursing intergalatic aliens!
The locals are bad enough.
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TOP 5 predictions for Next week...
1: a big earth quake
2: a large flood
3: a deadly fire
4: the stock market will fall...only to rise again.
5: The Redskins will win.
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Was just reading a new theroy on the moon formation. It make since that some of this earth-moon material would end up on Mars...and beyond.
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I knew that was going to happen.
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Also...not all birds migrate.
Even migrating birds of any one species may have several different migrating habits.(even within the same flock!). Many migrating species sometimes just take up residence and dont migrate at all. It all depends on the food source. Which is why they migrate in the first place. The shorter daylight days of fall is the clue to get moving south.
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Agreed Rick...sheer vastness.
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Check out this new picture (actually 10 years in the makeing) of the Hubble Extreame Deep Field realease October 12, 2012. Our deepest look into space.
If you could point your finger to the constellation Fornax...this is what would be under a finger nails worth of space.
...and you know it just goes on...and on...and on.
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Antartic ice is mostly on the continent of Antartica. Only some of it is floating.
But still...no change.
Other than a sea level rise of 200 feet...and another habital contintent.
Antartica was one ice free at present location ( 70 d. South ). It has been estimated that the ice is about a million years old. (We actually have an ice core that 530,000 y.o.)
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A little spin on statictics...
During the last cylcle (96-06) there were a little over 11,000 CME's.
About 600 were pointing twards earth.
So thats roughly a 1 in 19 chance that a CME would be earth bound.
So...if it has a 1 in 8 chance of happening...and a 1 in 19 chance of being directed at Earth....that makes it really a 1 in 152 chance. Right?
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One thing I couldnt help but notice are the Bison drawings.
In this particular photo...the red pigment is blown on top of the bison.
So...do we think Neanders did both?
It a big difference from drawing a bison to blowing a sploth on the wall.
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4700 and counting!
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I've always been fascinated in statistics.
Particularly who was polled. How they were polled...etc..etc.
I promise you I could drive 20 minutes out of town and interview 1,000 people who would not know anything about the doomsday proficy..let alone the Mayans.
Go to a soccer game. Poll fans before the game. "Do you like soccer?"
Headlines: "99.9% of People Like Soccer&
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I was wondering what you were up too...
Years ago I bought a monocular from Orion. Its Extra Near Focus 30cm.
You use it to enlarge stuff in close proximity.
It came with an attachment that converted it into a microscope.
I love that thing...every handy...fits in you pocket.
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...and a "pail"-out.
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True that.
Strange story. I had just read something similar about cows causeing global warming.
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How can you figure out how much methane a dino produces?
Not all ratios would be the same...like in humans.
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I would call it redirecting money to other projects.
The Constellation project did have its merrits though.
And there are moon projects still on the table.
NASA has a huge space budgit $19 Billion.
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Rick Baudé Wrote:
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> But for some reason the
> president has killed space exploration for the
> time being ...
The congress approved budget for NASA was $17.8 Billion. It was trimmed back (again by congress) to $17.7 Billion. It was NASA themselves that cut $310 million from its Planetary Science Division...roughly 20% of that
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