Physical Science

The latest news on the scientific front is the announcement that scientists are proposing one-way trips to Mars for the purpose of colonizing the red planet!  Can you believe it?  A one-way trip to Mars! The fear of us destroying…
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This epitomizes what true science is about: refining our knowledge to better understand nature. At first, only Pluto’s motion across the sky was known. Then the size and distance were estimated. Then its moon was resolved and later the moon…
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July 2009 saw the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Funnily enough, it also saw my 40th birthday. I have a real and vested interest in that moon landing actually having happened, and I for one believe it…
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During a eclipse when the sun is blocked by the moon, there is a blinding outline called solar corona. Many people before us have looked into the corona and have gone temporarily blind or have gone blind. Solar corona is…
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Often when we think of the search of Extra Terrestrial Intelligence we think and speak in awed, golden tones of how wondrous it would be to meet an alien civilization; to understand their culture(s), their language(s), architecture, art, music, their…
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Remember the haunting sounds of Der-der-der-der-DUM when we communicated with aliens in “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”? Nice stuff, Mr Spielberg. Well, I’ve never been to Wyoming, but anyone who has ever spent a lot of time out at…
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Are we ready for blast off and First Contact? We live in a world where the human race is now always plugged into something, if it’s not into a TV set or a laptop then you can be sure it…
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I’ll just address one issue here-the lack of stars in the pictures taken from space and on the moon. They don’t show up on the film for the simple reason that the film is not sensitive enough to record their…
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In 1947, something happened at Roswell, New Mexico. It became a legend, and that legend has grown into mythic proportions over the last few decades. Thus, the debate rages on. Whether it was a real-life extra-terrestrial vehicle that crashed, or…
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This is a great topic. I’m not sure exactly what everyone’s take on this question is but I’ll just dive right in with my take on it. It might be something totally different than everyone else’s opinion or take on…
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