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Today I realized that there is a serious lack of actual science articles here. Now I understand that space/astronomy is considered science, but at the same time there are many other fields out there and a lot of interesting articles that I read that need comment from time to time. Not sure if this subject [...]

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It is pretty much general knowledge that at some point our sun will swallow the Earth and end its existence. Thankfully none of us will be around to see it happen, unless you believe in incarnation, or we happen to discover immortality in the next few decades.
Astronomers have stated recently that they have a more [...]

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So…40 years after we win the race to the moon we start all over again. This time instead of democratic countries trying to beat communist countries to the moon YOU are competing against anyone that wants to go to the moon for a $30 Million prize from Google and XPRIZE in the great Moon Race. [...]

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There is really no way I can pretend that I wouldn’t rather see Microsoft running the world than Google, but hey, let’s get some search engine competition going on here regardless. Google is eating webmasters alive with their demands lately because their algorithm is easy to manipulate.
So…I’m sure you have heard that Microsoft has [...]

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I mentioned the other day that there was a Total Lunar Eclipse on February 20th. Well…Today is February 20th! This is just a reminder to anyone who has subscribed to this blog in their RSS feed Readers so that they don’t miss out on the event.
The easy-to-watch event will play out in several stages as [...]

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Just a few days away. Wednesday in fact. A total lunar eclipse will be visible for nearly a billion people in the Western Hemisphere, more than 1.5 billion in Europe and Africa, and perhaps another half-billion in western Asia will be able to watch — weather permitting — as the brilliant mid-winter full moon becomes [...]

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Photographs have been time stamped for ages, but now they can be stamped with the exact location in the world where they were taken? Interesting concept. Stephen Shankland, at CNET wrote an article about it today which I found pretty interesting because I had not yet heard of this technology. Apparently it is being called [...]

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Two planetary discoveries have scientists believing that solar systems like ours are going to become much more common. The two planets have great similarities to Our Jupiter and Saturn. The newfound worlds both appear to be gaseous and are about 80 percent the sizes of Jupiter and Saturn, the astronomers said today. They orbit a [...]

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The never-ending search for alternative fuel sources for our planet that has not only a future of shortages, but fuels that are contributing to problems in our atmosphere may have some solutions in space.
New discoveries about magnetic field lines and the first-ever direct observation of their reconnection in space are offering hope that scientists [...]

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CNET News.com’s Erica Ogg reports on what happens when 100 volunteers with GPS phones start driving up and down a 10-mile stretch of freeway.
The report is done by video so you’ll have to run over there and check it out. Sound is a bit poor so a captioning option would be useful. The premise of [...]

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