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Re: Daily science stuff

Postby enterprikayak » Tue Feb 01, 2011 8:48 pm

Linda wrote:eez, for a person who was born in 1948 and grew up in the 1950's and 1960's, hearing people talk about "old" computers is strange. As a kid I thought getting a transistor radio was cutting edge. And I had a pocket mechanical adding machine that I thought was great. You used a stylus to manipulate metal numbers. Oh, and I used a mechanical typewriter all though high school and college. And when I got my first apartment, I thought the alarm clock I bought was top of the line. It did not have a round clock face...it had thin metal plates with numbers that dropped down in a square window.


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Re: Daily science stuff

Postby Silverbullet » Wed Feb 02, 2011 12:10 am

Yup, I remmeber when a Phone was used to make a call and that was all. Course I do go back a bit further than EK. When there was no TV, Radio was it. Long distance phone calls had to be booked days in advance. None of this picking up a phone and direct dialing either. No hand held calculators, adding machines. You all don't know what has changed in the world the past 60 years.

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Re: Daily science stuff

Postby Linda » Tue Feb 08, 2011 3:04 pm

Here is a link to an article about the Kepler telescope and all the exoplanets it is discovering. I found the article on the Planetary Society's site. Fascinating. :spock:
http://www.planetary.org/news/2011/0203 ... alaxy.html
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Re: Daily science stuff

Postby Silverbullet » Tue Feb 08, 2011 3:54 pm

Watched a program on the Science channel last night. Probably was old but I had never seen it before: Galaxies. Didn't know that about 100 Billion of the things have been found (sort of) in the known Universe. God knows how many there are in the unknown Universe. Program also spoke of Dark Matter and Dark eneergy. I have heard of Dark Matter but never Dark Energy. Whatever, with that many Galaxis containing billions(?) of stars. How can one say we are alone in the Universe.

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Re: Daily science stuff

Postby Linda » Tue Feb 15, 2011 1:44 pm

The search for planet Vulcan is on. I think a lot of humans are hoping we actually find a planet and life on it, around 40 Eridani A. :vulcan: :spock: :tpol:

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/20 ... -phys.html
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Re: Daily science stuff

Postby Linda » Tue Feb 15, 2011 1:52 pm

And here is another link I just had to post. What if there really is an MU? Or many, many of them?

http://www.quantumjumping.com/lp/subcon ... 5QodswjCdg
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Re: Daily science stuff

Postby Silverbullet » Tue Feb 15, 2011 4:25 pm

Linda, apparently there has been one found about 18-20 light years away. Rocky and may have water which is needed for life.

Program I had watched said that any Earth like Planets that could be useful to Mankind would have to be in the Goldilocks sphere. That is the region that is not to near the Galaxy Center and not too Far away from it but in just the right part.

Wouldn't it be great to find a planet that was inhabited.

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Re: Daily science stuff

Postby Kevin Thomas Riley » Tue Feb 15, 2011 11:37 pm

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Re: Daily science stuff

Postby Brandyjane » Mon Feb 21, 2011 10:35 pm

My mind immediately went to "Rogue Planet" when I saw this headline: Starless Planets May Be Habitable After All.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928005.200-starless-planets-may-be-habitable-after-all.html

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Postby Silverbullet » Mon Feb 21, 2011 10:46 pm

Must have an awful lot of internal heat that radiates to the surface. without a Star to heat the Planet the atmosphere would be solid ice if it conatained any water vapor. If it had a different atmosphere than an Oxygen other gasses mix might be habitale.

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Re: Daily science stuff

Postby enterprikayak » Tue Feb 22, 2011 1:11 am

what about subterranean life?
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Re: Daily science stuff

Postby Grrr » Thu Feb 24, 2011 10:55 pm

I have a friend who lives in Florida. She sent me these pictures today because I told her "everyone on my Star Trek board will love it."

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Re: Daily science stuff

Postby Distracted » Sat Feb 26, 2011 1:55 am

Is that a space shuttle launch?
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Re: Daily science stuff

Postby Grrr » Sat Feb 26, 2011 7:22 am

Yes. She took the pictures from her front yard.

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Re: Daily science stuff

Postby enterprikayak » Sat Feb 26, 2011 7:35 am

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