Physical Science

Robots could certainly be used for further exploration of Mars, and they should be the primary means for exploration. They could engage in all sorts of projects, including a search for life forms, or at least evidence that life once…
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Penguin populations are mysteriously diminishing, but if penguin biologist and president of the Polar Oceans Research Group, Bill Fraser, has his way schools of advanced underwater robots will discover the reason why. The autonomous, underwater robots are called “gliders.” The…
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NASA’s new lunar exploration program, Lunar Quest, is multi-elemental and therefore differs from any of NASA’s past missions in that it is attempting lunar exploration using a tri-fold approach, namely: (1) for lunar missions of opportunity, (2) research and analysis…
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The notion extraterrestrial beings have visited Earth is an intriguing enigma, and one fancied by human minds for at least the past hundred years. The very idea of extraterrestrial life only first breaching the mind of  sixteenth century Copernican disciple…
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Intelligent forms of life could include, God, or gods, robots, other than carbon based life forms, and something we do not yet know how to describe. But there is yet another possibility, and that is that the Universe itself is…
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The danger year of 2011 has arrived and scientists in-the-know are worried sick. Space experts began worrying about the sun several years ago…and for good reason. They made dire predictions concerning the approaching solar maximum occurring from 2011 to 2013….
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The Gravity of the Dark Matter Problem The composition of dark matter has people from many disciplines of science scratching their heads in wonder.What exactly is Dark Matter?If we are to answer this question I propose that we first change…
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While it may be tempting to argue that time is not relative, that it is a finite and completely inexorable, doing so also goes against that which some of the brightest minds of modern history have taught us. It is…
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If time travel is possible then our actions are predetermined. Let’s start with time. Time moves in a solid direction at a constant pace. No object within time can move to next Tuesday any faster than any other object in…
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Our bodies are subject to all sorts of chemical and physical insults from the food we eat to thermal changes that occur. These insults’ to our body, as they are called, cause breaks in the strands of our DNA at…
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