53 minutes ago by Mihai Andrei

As I was writing in a previous post, Titan is quite unique, in that aside from our planet it’s the only place in our solar system where significant quantities of liquid are to be found (though most are liquid ethane and methane). That doesn’t seem to make much of a difference considering the chemist ...

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55 minutes ago by Professor Vining

More updates to Mission: Zodiac. It's just some stories most of you have seen before: Alabaster. "Second" in my series of Silver Arm stories, this time we move on to a new character, Janus, who is specifically not the blue god. Dancing in Elysium. This is set in Mission: Zodiac's Modern Age, althoug ...

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2 hours ago

Have you ever gotten really stoned and thought about how insignificant we are in the grand scheme of the universe? I mean, sure God watches us like his little pets, but how many other planets and galaxies of pets does he have out there? Also, where did you get this weed? This is some good-ass weed! ...

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2 hours ago by qpsk

Another video demonstrating the massive size of the universe that was created so we could have pretty things to look at in the sky: Notice how much of the stuff we can’t see because other stuff is in the way.

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3 hours ago by Edward Lawrence

Dear Kell Parents and Students: The Kell family is excited about the successful start to our 2009-2010 school year. Several students earned the honor of representing Kell at Governor’s Honors Program this summer; 95% of our juniors met or exceeded standards on the Georgia High School Graduation Writ ...

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3 hours ago by Kemo D.

Titan's Glinting Lake NASA's Cassini spacecraft spotted the first reflection off a northern lake on Saturn's moon Titan. A haze of methane enshrouds Saturn's largest moon, Titan, and prevents scientists from seeing most sunlight reflections off the surface. But NASA's Cassini orbiter managed to snap ...

KEMO'S JOURNAL - kemo-d7.livejournal.com · 6 references

3 hours ago by Kemo D.

A Dark Future for the Universe Future astronomers won't see other galaxies. According to astronomical predictions, astronomers looking at the skies in the distant future will have the distinct impression that the Milky Way is the only galaxy in the Universe, as the force known as dark energy will co ...

KEMO'S JOURNAL - kemo-d7.livejournal.com · 6 references

4 hours ago by Carl Hergenrother

The Meteor Activity Outlook is a weekly summary of expected meteor activity written by Robert Lunsford, Operations Manager of the American Meteor Society and contributor to this blog. The original unedited version of this week’s Meteor Activity Outlook can be found at the American Meteor Society’s s ...

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4 hours ago by Tony Hoffman

Scientists believe they have found evidence of dark matter, the invisible substance believed to comprise three-quarters of the matter in the universe, in a defunct iron mine in northern Minnesota. The tentative detection of two dark-matter particles, known as weakly interacting massive particles (WI ...

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4 hours ago by Carl Hergenrother

Meteor rates continue to be elevated. Though the Geminids are now history for 2009, a number of minor showers are displaying an impressive amount of activity. In particular, the December Leonis Minorids are producing between 10 and 25% of the nightly total. It will be interesting to see if this show ...

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