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Monthly Archives: December 2008
Merry Xmas and Happy New Year
Hi All Hope you had a joyful celebration of Christ’s Birth, even if you’re not a Christian. Which ever God (or not) you might invoke I hope the New Year will see you blessed by Him/Her/Ver/It… Now we approach the … Continue reading
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Carnival of Space #83
Ian Musgrave – a Queenslander like me – is hosting #83… Astroblogger Carnival… the Antipodean Edition …these days he’s in Adelaide, South Australia (Ben Folds’ part-time home-town for a while.) Blogs hard on amateur astronomy, and gives Creationists a good … Continue reading
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Did Gaia birth Selene?
How did the Moon get here? Charles Darwin’s grandson, George, theorised that the Moon was spun off from the Earth, leaving a gaping hole we now know as the Pacific. Others theorised the Moon was captured from an independent orbit, … Continue reading
Posted in Cosmos, Sol Space, exoplanets
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Origin of Sapience
Humans experienced a brain expansion after they developed stone tools to augment their rather pitiful natural endowments. What provoked that shift? Chimps hunt without stone tools so it wasn’t hunting by itself that caused the change. Some 2.8 mya a … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Biology, Cosmos, SETI
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The Ocean of Europa
Europa is the second closest to Jupiter of Galileo’s “Medician Stars”, and one of the four known moons for centuries. Although akin to our Moon in size, it’s covered in ice that is criss-crossed by cracks and blotched with sulphurous … Continue reading
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Carnival of Space #82
It’s up! Full of space-geeky goodness, including YoursTruly this week… Space DISCO …at the Discovery Channel, by Nerderific Dave Mosher. From one SpaceNerd to another, nicely done!
Posted in Carnival, Cosmos, SETI, Sol Space, Starflight, Super-Tech
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A New Picture of the Early Earth
New York Times article discussing the latest evidence on the Hadean Aeon (4.5-3.8 Gya) being relatively less nasty than previously believed… A New Picture of the Early Earth …with the possibility of oceans, plate tectonics, even Life dating back to … Continue reading
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A New Force?
Is Dark Matter annihilating itself more vigorously than expected? Recent measurements say “maybe”… Is a new force at work in the dark sector? …to do so a “Phi” force might be drawing DM particles together, perhaps implying Dark Matter is … Continue reading
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What to do Before the Sun dies…
A couple of posts ago I fast-forwarded to the year 400 trillion, found an utterly abyssal darkness, and thus pondered Infinity. Infinity may or may not exist, but in either case it can be studied mathematically. Whether any of that … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Cosmos, Sol Space, Super-Tech
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Deuterium Fusion Rockets
Back in the 1950s a lot of work was done on the practical aspects of triggering fusion in various bomb designs and fuels. A relevant fuel is deuterium. Friedwardt Winterberg was a nuclear physicist involved in the very secret work … Continue reading
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