Physical Science

SETI, or the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence uses radio telescopes to search the sky for messages from other worlds. The problem is that we don’t know what the pattern of those messages will be, only that there will be…
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Edwin Hubble was a famous astronomer in the 1920’s. Hubble was famous for looking beyond our galaxy discovering that the universe was much more vast than people thought. The Hubble telescope named for him has been instrumental in making many important…
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The Mayan Mystery The year 2012 AD and the ancient Mayan calendar. According to the ancient Mayan calendar, December 21, 2012 marks the end of the Age of Movement and the commencement of a new Earth Age. Many believe this…
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How Telescopes Work – Refracting Telescopes We find out about the Universe by detecting and analyzing the electromagnetic radiation emitted from celestial bodies. Translation – we look up and see what is there. Our eyes alone and unassisted are not…
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When most people think of SETI they think of the radio telescopes that search for signals from extra terrestrials, but since we have no facts about how these aliens might choose to communicate and so we search in every way…
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The Arecibo broadcast was a message deliberately beamed into space from the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico to commemorate its upgrading in 1974. The Arecibo telescope was originally built in 1963 in a natural Karst sinkhole, forming the largest…
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The Space Shuttle Program is almost finished. What will replace it? NASA is developing new space craft and booster rockets to replace the Space Shuttle. The new space craft will be used to send astronauts back to the moon and…
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It’s nearly impossible to imagine just how big of an event it would be if SETI found a message from another species. Intelligence, somewhere else in the universe, calling out to us in the darkness. It would change everything. Similar…
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What goes up must come down. It’s a true statement, but the missing argument of the equation is when? Ever since the Russians launched the first Sputnik in 1957, the United States and Russia have been launching satellites into low,…
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With everybody talking about the so-called “SETI”, you may be wondering about now exactly what is that? SETI, or Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, is the name for various activities which are carried out in an attempt to discover intelligent extraterrestrial…
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